Most notably, the new device sees the return of what BlackBerry is calling the 'classic navigation keys' - a phonecall key, menu key, trackpad, back button, and yes, back at last, an end call key - ...

The Classic runs BlackBerry operating system 10.3.1. The platform has evolved little since its 2013 debut, but there are a few features worth discussing. Like most modern smartphones, the Classic ...

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The BlackBerry Classic, which will be available to Verizon Wireless customers on Thursday, suddenly looks like a really sweet deal. Most people have forgotten about BlackBerry, the phone company that ...

Blackberry is back. Today, the company officially unveils their Classic, an icon in the smartphone world born anew. The updated device takes modern specs and wraps them up in a nice, familiar package ...

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Pour one out for the BlackBerry Classic. BlackBerry announced on Tuesday on its Inside BlackBerry blog that it will no longer produce the BlackBerry Classic, officially ending a form-factor era. SEE ...

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You can no longer use that old BlackBerry phone sitting at the bottom of your drawer somewhere. On Tuesday, the company will stop running support for its classic devices running BlackBerry 10, 7.1 OS ...

In late December 2014, BlackBerry introduced the return of a classic with its then-new BlackBerry Classic smartphone. Larger than the Q10 and better capable than BlackBerry devices of old, the Classic ...

On one level the BlackBerry Classic, due to be launched this week, is an exercise in nostalgia: a reminder of simpler, happier days when a BlackBerry was the must-have mobile, affectionately known by ...

As of January 4, 2022, all classic BlackBerry smartphones running versions of BlackBerry OS will no longer work for calls, text messages, data, and emergency functionality, essentially making them ...