BlackBerry officially ends support for Priv, outlines BB10 plans

BlackBerry on Fri same that it'll finish regular monthly security updates for its Android-powered telephone Priv.

Released in Gregorian calendar month 2015, the Priv -- named as a hat tip to BlackBerry's target privacy -- was touted by BlackBerry chief executive officer John Chen because the most secure mechanical man phone on the market.

Its launch came because the Canadian school company was making an attempt to carve out a path to profitableness, but, last summer, a BlackBerry govt unconcealed to CNET that sales of the Priv device were troubled. In Gregorian calendar month, BlackBerry confirmed that the Priv wouldn't update on the far side mechanical man vi.0 candy.

"Having currently stepped outside the first biennial window, we are going to not be delivering monthly updates for the PRIV moving forward," wrote Alex cartoonist, SVP and gram of BlackBerry's quality division, in an exceedingly Fri journal post.

Thurber another that BlackBerry would "engage [its] partners PRN to develop and deliver necessary patches" to the Priv, and what it'd still fulfill all of its warrant obligations for the device.

Thurber conjointly unconcealed that a BlackBerry "trade-up" program is within the works for current Priv users.

"We can before long be introducing a trade-up program for current BlackBerry customers WHO area unit still exploitation the Priv additionally as those holding onto BB10 and BBOS devices," cartoonist wrote. "Stay tuned for details and find able to upgrade to a BlackBerry KeyOne or Motion, the foremost secure mechanical man smartphones on the world."

In another journal post, BlackBerry made public future support plans for the BlackBerry ten and BlackBerry OS services:

While we tend to area unit happy to announce continued support for BB10 and BBOS users for a minimum of another 2 years, current device house owners ought to bear in mind that we are going to be closing some subsidiary services like the BlackBerry World app store (12/31/2019), the BlackBerry Travel web site (February 2018), and also the Playbook video occupation service (March 2018). Customers WHO upgrade to a brand new KeyOne or Motion will not miss a beat as they're going to have immediate access to the wealthy universe of apps within the Google Play store while not compromising on either security or their need for a physical keyboard.

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