End of an era: The iconic BlackBerry phones to stop working from today

The move, first announced in 2020, effectively kills off a line-up that remains popular to this day in parts of the world for its reliability and security

BlackBerry devices running the original operating device system and services will no longer be supported after Jan. 4, marking the end of an era for the storied device that catapulted work into the mobile era. 

Ontario-based BlackBerry Ltd., the company formerly known as Research In Motion whose signature handset in the 1990s came to embody working on the move, said handsets running its in-house software “will no longer be expected to reliably function” after Tuesday, according to its end-of-life page. 

The move, first announced in 2020, effectively kills off a line-up that remains popular to this day in parts of