End of BlackBerry OS - data, calling, SMS services shuttered

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Goodbye BlackBerry — South Africa's once-favourite phone

BlackBerry's legacy devices will no longer function reliably from 4 January 2022, as the company will decommission services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, as well as PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier.

The company said that data, phone call, SMS, and emergency services functionality would be affected by the shutdown of these software versions.
 
How can the phone stop call and SMS's functionality.

Doesnt make sense.
 
Rickster said:
How can the phone stop call and SMS's functionality.

Doesnt make sense.
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If it's anything to go by,on Windows 11 stuff like Snipping tool broke when a certificate expired
If the OS depends on some hosted functionality reliability/performance could probably go south

On January 4, 2022, devices running on these service offerings through either carrier or Wi-Fi connections will no longer reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality. We have chosen to extend our service until then as an expression of thanks to our loyal partners and customers
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Thats Blackberry for you. It never made sense. Their OS 10 launch was a disaster in Cape Town. I got invited and was probably the only one to not get a testing phone on that day, but was guided from one room to another being told how some of the apps I worked on would be so essential. Yet the insult was there and I refused to convert any of my apps onto their platform, this included Google Maps I was collaborating on.

Was happy to see them implode. The OS was rubbish, complicated, too many swipe this or that way, was bloated. Terrible.

Thats why I still feel the best OS for them was the older one similar to Nokia Symbian and now Apple OS. Its simplistic, easy to understand and any granny or grandpa would love it.

But we built stuff in mb and kilobytes then where now devs fill pages with so much gunk and rubbish thats not needed.

I even remember that web pages long ago had to be 20kb or less for easy loading. Now its normal to see them 2-5mb each.

Yip will miss the older BB but not their latest OS which was rubbish and caused them to loose so much apps by screwing the devs of the largest apps of that era so that no one wanted to work with them anymore.
 
PsyWulf said:
Probably S30?
S60 was a dumpsterfire :laugh:
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Hmm I think you have selective memory syndrome or never actually used S60 devices.

I owned & used tons of them from around 2004 to around 2010 & for the most part they performed admirably.

Nokia billed (the flagship ones) as "pocket computers" & for their time they were very much a jack of many trades.
 
Rickster said:
How can the phone stop call and SMS's functionality.

Doesnt make sense.
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All these services require settings embedded in the OS - if the OS and settings aren't being updated, the features will just stop working.
 
FiestaST said:
Hmm I think you have selective memory syndrome or never actually used S60 devices.

I owned & used tons of them from around 2004 to around 2010 & for the most part they performed admirably.

Nokia billed (the flagship ones) as "pocket computers" & for their time they were very much a jack of many trades.
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It was certainly innovative,but it masked a snowballing disaster

Symbian's Secret History: The battle for the company's soul

How Nokia took charge, and never let go
www.theregister.com www.theregister.com
 
I had my 8520... to be fair it was literally just peer-pressure that converted me to have one cause “everyone” was on BBM.

Now I’m trying to be the iMessage converter but that’s not working that well so far.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Those where the best phones ever, awesome quality in comparison to what went before, pity they could not keep up.
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yip - personally I think that they were sabotaged.

Blackberry was a secure device. There hasn't been that level of security on a phone since (on commonly available phones)

I remember at one point it was revealed that all the major phone makers had created backdoors for the NSA to spy on users, Blackberry was the only one that had not complied.
Around that time was the massive BB outage which had been a major turning point for the demise of the platform.
 
Skankhunt said:
I had my 8520... to be fair it was literally just peer-pressure that converted me to have one cause “everyone” was on BBM.

Now I’m trying to be the iMessage converter but that’s not working that well so far.
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Also bought the torch back in high school coz every one had BBM and i wanted it too.

Luckily i dont befriend people who use android so i chat on Imessage only with friends. i only use whatsapp for family, pity i cant ditch them too.
 
*plays a small violin for Blackberry* I'll always be grateful to BBM for keeping my wife and I in constant contact at a time when I was too broke to afford data bundles. Always being in touch with your loved ones no matter how screwed you are ... that was special.
 
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