BlackBerry gives up on building phones
 

BlackBerry gives up on building phones
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It's the end of an era: Canada's BlackBerry has an**unced it will stop building hardware altogether, focusing instead on its software and services business.*

"The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners," Blackberry CEO John Chen said in the company's latest financial statement.

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BlackBerry's latest phone, the DTEK50, was, in fact, built by Alcatel, and with ** new BlackBerry phones on the horizon, the move wasn't hard to predict. But if it's **t going to build phones, what will BlackBerry do? Software, mostly. And according to Chen, the strategy is already working. Read more...

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