Startup’s planned 5G Blackberry revival is officially dead

OnwardMobility, the startup hoping to revive Blackberry telephones with a 5G keyboard-equipped Android gadget, is ending its work on the cellphone and shutting down as an organization. “It’s with nice unhappiness that we announce that OnwardMobility shall be shutting down, and we are going to now not be continuing with the event of an ultra-secure smartphone with a bodily keyboard,” the corporate wrote in a press release on its web site.

The announcement doesn’t come as a lot of a shock given studies that OnwardMobility’s 5G Blackberry had been cancelled earlier this month. However on the time there was hypothesis that the corporate may dwell on and try to supply a 5G keyboard-equipped Android cellphone 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.

Regardless of saying “this isn’t the end result we labored and hoped for,” OnwardMobility’s assertion doesn’t give any indication of precisely why it cancelled the venture. However Android Police beforehand reported that its license to make use of the Blackberry branding had lately been cancelled. And, extra usually, it may’t have been simple making an attempt to make it as a brand new smartphone producer amidst an ongoing world chip scarcity.