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QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

image via gizmodo.com
image via gizmodo.com

After dying a painful death at the hand of the iPhone’s revolutionary capacitive touchscreen, the QWERTY smartphone is rising up from the graveyard this year. Either way, two QWERTY phone announcements in this still very new year suggest there may be some kind of trend. Maybe after 19 years of the iPhone and touchscreens defining the mobile experience, it’s time to go back to the physical keyboard and its more tactile typing.

https://gizmodo.com/qwerty-phones-are-really-trying-to-make-a-comeback-this-year-2000709717

BlackBerry phones once ruled the world, then the world changed

Image: Wojciech30 / Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

… BlackBerry is shutting down its remaining services, and users running BlackBerry devices with BlackBerry OS 7.1 and BlackBerry 10 — and you have to wonder just how many there were left — will no longer have access to data or even the once famous BlackBerry messaging service, among other things. It’s all getting shut off tomorrow [January 4, 2022].

… BlackBerry phones went from top of the smartphone heap to single digits in the blink of an eye, losing large swaths of market share as it got completely disrupted by Apple and Android touchscreens.

Ron Miller @ron_miller

https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/03/blackberry-phones-once-ruled-the-world-then-the-world-changed