Even now, I use the 2018-vintage KEY2 as a home-use complement to my SIM-enabled Google Pixel 4. In later years, as I experimented with the iPhone and its Android-enabled glass-slab counterparts, I realized that the presence of the physical BlackBerry keyboard was a big part of my attraction to mobile technology. I still contend that the combination of the physical keyboard and the customizable Android interface could have carved out a big nerd niche. The first BlackBerry with a native Android OS was the Priv in 2015. And I fault BlackBerry’s sheer stubbornness in remaining with its own OS as a key driver of the brand’s deterioration.

Source: National Post February 05, 2020 10:52 UTC