{"id":4225,"date":"2022-01-03T22:39:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/03\/blackberry-signals-end-of-an-era-as-it-prepares-to-pull-plug-on-classic-phones\/"},"modified":"2022-01-03T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:39:25","slug":"blackberry-signals-end-of-an-era-as-it-prepares-to-pull-plug-on-classic-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/03\/blackberry-signals-end-of-an-era-as-it-prepares-to-pull-plug-on-classic-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry signals end of an era as it prepares to pull plug on classic phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company will discontinue service on all devices not running on Android software<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday marks the end of an era: BlackBerry will discontinue service on its classic smartphones. So for those still holding on to their QWERTY keyboards, be warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a 22 December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackberry.com\/us\/en\/support\/devices\/end-of-life\">statement<\/a>, the company reminded users of the development, which will affect services for all of its devices not running on Android software, including the BlackBerry 10, 7.1 OS and earlier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/03\/blackberry-discontinue-service-classic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e8e03e228fe462c4508f4385be9bd26e7e39a2c1\/0_96_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=82514ce66f9b9edc6d15f4d46e2115fc\" title=\"BlackBerry signals end of an era as it prepares to pull plug on classic phones\" \/>The company will discontinue service on all devices not running on Android software<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday marks the end of an era: BlackBerry will discontinue service on its classic smartphones. So for those still holding on to their QWERTY keyboards, be warned.<br \/>\nIn a 22 December statement, the company reminded users of the development, which will affect services for all of its devices not running on Android software, including the BlackBerry 10, 7.1 OS and earlier. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company will discontinue service on all devices not running on Android software Tuesday marks the end of an era: BlackBerry will discontinue service on its classic smartphones. So for those still holding on to their QWERTY keyboards, be warned. In a 22 December statement, the company reminded users of the development, which will affect &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/03\/blackberry-signals-end-of-an-era-as-it-prepares-to-pull-plug-on-classic-phones\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BlackBerry signals end of an era as it prepares to pull plug on classic phones<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}