Is BlackBerry making a comeback?

BlackBerry Is Planning a Comeback. For Some, It Never Left Loyalists had been mourning the physical keyboards (and Brick Breaker) until Onward Mobility announced a new 5G Android Blackberry arriving in 2021. It was nearly all over on August 31. BlackBerry owners had known it was coming for six months.

Why did BlackBerry Nix its plans for a new phone?

"BlackBerry will receive a license back to the patents being sold, which relate primarily to mobile devices, messaging and wireless networking," the company wrote. As to why the plans of a new BlackBerry phone were nixed, one of them was reportedly the supply chain woes, likely catalyzed by the pandemic and the industry-wide semiconductor shortage.

What happened to BlackBerry?

Within the past couple of years, numerous steps and missteps have given BlackBerry fans hope and despair in equal measure. In February 2020, BlackBerry announced that its licensing deal with TCL signed in 2016 for selling BlackBerry-branded phones had ended.