BlackBerry phones live on thanks to a deal with TCL

PanARMENIAN.Net – BlackBerry’s days of making its own smartphones are over, and that means it’s time to hand the responsibilities over to someone else, Engadget said. The Canadian company has reached a “long-term” deal with TCL (which repurposed Alcatel phones as the BlackBerry DTEK50 and DTEK60) that licenses both the BlackBerry name and software for future devices.

TCL will design, build, sell and support the hardware — BlackBerry is just putting its security-oriented spins on the resulting handsets. There’ll be more about the phones resulting from the deal in the “coming months.”

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