Startup’s deliberate 5G Blackberry revival is formally useless

OnwardMobility, the startup hoping to revive Blackberry telephones with a 5G keyboard-equipped Android gadget, is ending its work on the telephone and shutting down as an organization. “It is with great sadness that we announce that OnwardMobility will be shutting down, and we will no longer be proceeding with the development of an ultra-secure smartphone with a physical keyboard,” the corporate wrote in a statement on its website.

The announcement doesn’t come as a lot of a shock given reviews that OnwardMobility’s 5G Blackberry had been cancelled earlier this month. But on the time there was hypothesis that the corporate may reside on and try to provide a 5G keyboard-equipped Android telephone with out the Blackberry identify. Now, nevertheless, we all know it’s the tip of the road for the corporate as an entire in addition to the product itself.

Despite saying “this is not the outcome we worked and hoped for,” OnwardMobility’s assertion doesn’t give any indication of precisely why it cancelled the mission. But Android Police previously reported that its license to make use of the Blackberry branding had just lately been cancelled. And, extra usually, it may possibly’t have been simple making an attempt to make it as a brand new smartphone producer amidst an ongoing world chip scarcity.