The iconic Blackberry patent for keyboards on mobile devices expires today after being presented in 2005.
The company triggered success in the early 2000s with which they are essentially the world’s first smartphones. They were full of incredible technology, but Blackberry owners did not love anything as much as their small keyboards. The brand is even known for not taking Apple as a competitor because the iPhone was not launched with a keyboard.
If I were doing business or would like to look great in 2011, I had a Blackberry. There was something effortless in them in the same way as the Walkmans, the Gameboys and the iPods have nostalgia today.
I do not hope that much changes in the mobile phone market now that manufacturers can put keying on their devices without having to cut Blackberry. Tactile screens are too popular and too widespread on conventional devices.
If we are lucky, we could see an increase in low and experimental smart phones with keyboards, but brands like Unihertz have been launching Blackberry imitations for some years without making a great dent in the market, so I want a wave of fun Devices enabled for the keyboard to flood the market in 2026, I don’t expect it.
That said, as a Canadian, it is always fun to look back in the history of Blackberry and remember a time when a local device was the star of the technological world. The company began in 1999 and is still executed today, but its mobile phones division closed in 2016.
Mobileyrup began in 2007 and reviewed many of the company’s first devices until the Key2 reached the market in 2018. If you want to walk through the memory lane, see part of our review coverage on the oldest phones and tell us your Favorite Blackberry.
Fountain: Canadian patent database
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