BlackBerry announced as early as 2016 that it would stop entering the "smartphone" ranks. Now BlackBerry's main business is "software security" and "Internet of Things", and it cooperates with many Internet companies. The many patents BlackBerry sells are only a small part of the patents they own. In fact, BlackBerry has been doing this kind of thing. The number of patents owned by BlackBerry has reached nearly 40,000. After it stopped its mobile phone business, it has Relying on its own patents for development, it sold its patents many times during this period.
I believe that many people have used BlackBerry mobile phones, or have seen others using BlackBerry mobile phones. The biggest feature of the appearance of BlackBerry mobile phones should be the densely packed keyboard. Among the many mobile phones with buttons, BlackBerry should be one of the mobile phones with many buttons. Officially, because it uses 26-key pinyin that looks like "seeds" on the surface of a strawberry, the company's name is directly named Blackberry. In fact, Blackberry Mobile phones are also a part of many people’s youth.
If BlackBerry hadn’t sold its patents to Huawei this time, many people might have forgotten that BlackBerry was a mobile phone manufacturer. It's a pity that BlackBerry has not entered the ranks of smartphones. On October 28, 2016, BlackBerry issued a statement that it would not develop smartphones internally, but would instead shift the entire company's business to the development of "security software" and the Internet of Things. research and cooperation with many Internet companies.
BlackBerry’s current situation actually feels a bit like the end of the road. Since 2014, BlackBerry has been selling its patents. Although it has also continued to license its patented technology, compared to those Internet giants, There is still a big gap. The 90 patents sold to Huawei this time are actually a very small part of the patents owned by BlackBerry, and BlackBerry still has many core patents, such as the QNX embedded real-time operating system.