End of the Blackberry

Blackberries were the first phone we issued to executives.  At their request after they saw how they could be used with their own portfolios.  And were the first that had the ability to work with mail, and later the use of 'Apps' for corporate data, which led to more concern about the security of data.  Spent lots of time considering what apps would lead to better corporate decisions  For us these were the first hand-held portable task devices.  Now it's mostly just the name that is also going away.

The end of BlackBerry phones: TCL will cease sales in August 2020
TCL's brand-name license will expire, leading to a clean, swift death.
 By Ron Amadeo in Ars Technica

BlackBerry is quitting the phone business—again. You might recall BlackBerry quit manufacturing smartphones back in 2016, but it licensed its brand name to the Chinese smartphone corporation TCL. TCL started pumping out BlackBerry-branded devices—some of which were QWERTY equipped and some of which were shameless rebadgings of existing TCL phones. TCL's Zombie BlackBerry plan apparently wasn't working too well, though, since now that's dead, too.  ... "