Why BlackBerry held the tiny keys to my heart
Why BlackBerry held the tiny keys to my heart Many vintage BlackBerry phones will stop working on Tuesday as the company turns off support for its operating system. For journalist Bill Wilson, it means the retirement of a faithful workhorse. "Is that a Blackberry, I didn't know they were still going?" has been many a conversation opener over the past decade, and particularly over the past five or six years. From airport security to pubs and restaurants, even in hospital intensive care, strangers have looked on curiously and even asked to hold and look at my Q10 phone with its distinctive qwerty keyboard. But my stock answer of "yes they are still going" would now have to add "but not their classic phones". Launched in 2013, that particular model, and BlackBerry's phones since then, have faced an increasingly impossible battle as Apple and Samsung set about their battle for dunia smartphone domination. Hard to believe that in the late 2000s ...