Blackberry classic says goodbye forever

In 2014, the Canadian company launched the Blackberry Classic, a mobile phone that once again had a physical keyboard as its main banner and a design reminiscent of the Blackberry Bold 9900, one of the brand's most successful terminals. A few hours ago Blackberry announced that the Blackberry Classic, which came with the BB10 operating system, would be discontinued.

Goodbye to an era, the Blackberry Classic stops being manufactured

The cessation of manufacturing of the Blackberry Classic comes amid rumors about three new terminals that they would be working on right now, Neon, Argon and Mercury, all with the Android operating system. We can not rule out at this time that there is a new Classic model with updated specifications and with Android between those three terminals, what is clear is that for Blackberry the future goes through Android. The company assured that the phone had already exceeded its life expectancy within the smartphone market and it was time to turn the page.

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Despite this, Blackberry will continue to provide security support to BB10 with the launch of a new update in August and another in 2017, both focused exclusively on the security of this operating system.

Blackberry Priv: The brand's first Android phone

The launch of Blackberry Priv last year was a strong bet, a smartphone with high-end specifications, Android and with a physical keyboard, sales did not accompany anything and now they are in the dilemma of which way to go, betting on the range Average, for the high-end, bet everything on phones with a physical keyboard or return to the touch keyboard. Even when it is no longer in production, it must be said that the company will continue to release updates for the BlackBerry Classic. The next update is version 10.3.3 that is released in August, and a second for 2017.