The BlackBerry Priv – the first Android smartphone ever announced by BlackBerry has now officially reached its end of life. The Canadian smartphone manufacturer has announced that the smartphone will no longer get any more monthly security updates. However, the company will continue to offer support for critical security vulnerabilities and will also honour all current warranties. The Priv was an important handset for Blackberry and marked the end of their own BB10 operating system.

BlackBerry has also announced that it will introduce a trade-up program for current Priv customers as well as those who are using outdated BB10 and BBOS devices soon. The trade-up program will allow them to conveniently upgrade to a modern BlackBerry such as the KeyOne or Motion, hopefully at discounted prices.

BlackBerry said in a blog post – “When we introduced our first Android device more than 24 months ago, we committed to delivering 2 years of monthly software updates for the Priv. Having now stepped outside the original 2-year window, we will no longer be delivering monthly updates for the Priv moving forward,”

BlackBerry launched the Priv in India in early 2016 at a ridiculously high price of Rs 62,990. The Priv has since received numerous price cuts. The Priv came with an all-plastic build but was characteristic BlackBerry in that it came with a hardware 4-row QWERTY keyboard. The phone employed a slider mechanism wherein the keyboard stayed put underneath the main display at all times unless needed. A gentle slide out from the lower end of the screen pulled out the keyboard for all intends and purposes.

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What is a blackberry?

It sounds like fruits to me.

I love fruits

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Dude. its not dead. they only stop monthly updates. they havent abandon it totally

Stopping this update opens way to its death. Trust me. We all know their styles