Month: February 2022

Für die Produktion von ID.4 und Aero B will Volkswagen bis zu 1.500 neue Arbeiter anstellen, kündigt der Betriebsrat an. (VW, Elektroauto)

Apples Airpods Max kosten weniger als die Tasche von Gucci. Und die Gucci-Tasche für die Airpods Pro ist mit knapp 1.000 Euro noch teurer. (Airpods, Apple)

Die letzten Getreuen sind schweigsam und die Stimmen derer, die den britischen Premier für untragbar halten, mehren sich. Er wird die Bühne aber nicht ohne weitere Knalleffekte verlassen

Tesla deaktiviert auf Druck der Behörden die Boombox-Funktion, die individuelle Sounds über den Außenlautsprecher wiedergeben konnte. (Tesla)

KTM plant ein Elektromotorrad, das in die Naked-Bike-Serie eingereiht werden und einige Teile von Husqvarnas E-Bike verwenden soll. (Elektromotorrad, Elektroauto)

Apple veröffentlicht wegen einer Zero-Day-Sicherheitslücke in Webkit die Updates iOS 15.3.1, iPadOS 15.3.1, WatchOS 8.4.2 und MacOS Monterey 12.2.1. (Apple, Mac OS X)

The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending January 29, 2022, are in. The 4K SteelBook release of the 2014 vigilante action film, a Best Buy exclusive, was the week's top-selling new release. Find out what movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.

The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending January 29, 2022, are in. The 4K SteelBook release of the 2014 vigilante action film, a Best Buy exclusive, was the week's top-selling new release. Find out what movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.

This probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but it’s looking like you won’t be able to buy a 5G smartphone with the BlackBerry name on it anytime soon.

A company called OnwardMobility had announced plans a few years ago to license the BlackBerry name and use it for an upcoming 5G Android phone with a physical keyboard. Earlier this year, the company released a blog post to let us know… it’s not dead. But that BlackBerry-branded phone? It probably is.

CrackBerry founder Kevin Michaluk says that “multiple sources” tell him that the phone is dead “as of yesterday,” or February 9, 2022. And the folks at Android Police say they were able to independently confirm that with their own sources.

Apparently BlackBerry really, really wants out of the smartphone business. The company stopped developing its own operating system a while back, and released the BlackBerry Priv, the first and only BlackBerry-made smartphone to ship with Android software.

Then BlackBerry stopped making its own phones at all, instead licensing its name and some apps and services to third-party device makers who could produce Android phones and sell them under the BlackBerry brand. OnwardMobility was hoping to become the latest of those.

But it’s been a while since we’ve seen a new BlackBerry-branded phone, so far in 2022 we’ve seen BlackBerry:

• Shut down its legacy services for BlackBerry OS.
• Announce it would be sunsetting its Android apps this summer.
• Sell off its patents related to mobile devices, messaging, and wireless patents.

Android Police suggests that the company wants “to further distance itself from its days as a smartphone vendor” and that the license granted to OnwardMobility to use the BlackBerry name has been canceled, and AndroidPolice indicates that without that license, the company has chosen not to continue working to bring its planned phone to market.

It’s possible that if global supply chain issues hadn’t caused delays in OnwardMobility’s plans to develop and bring a new BlackBerry phone to market, maybe it would have hit the streets by now. But a combination of those delays and BlackBerry’s shifting focus seem to have doomed the project.

 

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