The End of an Era! As of Tuesday, the BlackBerry Phone Will No Longer Be Functional! Check Out These Celebs Celebrating the BlackBerry While It Lasted!
Chris Brown and Paris Hilton dance while Hilton holds on tight to her BlackBerry (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Andre 3000 of OutKast shows off his outfit-matching BlackBerry at the 12th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party (Photo by KMazur/WireImage)
Sean "P Diddy" Combs still scrolling through his BlackBerry!(Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images)
Eva Longoria snaps a pic from her BlackBerry at the red carpet! (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage for Harrison & Shriftman)
Rumer Willis with BlackBerry in hand at the BlackBerry launch party! (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage for Harrison & Shriftman)
Pamela Anderson struts her BlackBerry holster at her book signing! (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)
Regina King shows off her new phone at a BlackBerry Launch Party! (Photo by Mark Sullivan/WireImage)
Nick Cannon shows off his phone at the Pink BlackBerry launch party. (Photo by: Jeff Vespa/WireImage)
Paris Hilton at the BlackBerry 8700c Self Magazine Lounge, showing off her new phone! (Photo by Donato Sardella/WireImage)
Kim K showing off her new BlackBerry at the Pink BlackBerry Launch Party!
(Photo by Alexandra Wyman/WireImage)
Courtney Cox and Brian d'Arcy James using their BlackBerry to unite worlds! (Photo by Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic)
Anna Wintour's BlackBerry letting her works as American Vogue Editor from London Fashion Week(Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
XOXO! 'Gossip Girl' star Blake Lively takes a selfie with her BlackBerry. Jun Sato
Rihanna, showing off her BlackBerry in Japan (Photo by Jun Sato/WireImage)
Sean "P Diddy" Combs scrolls through his Blackberry while standing next to a 1956 red Corvette Convertible in Miami Beach. (Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images)
It's the end of an Era! (We may have THOUGHT the end of this specific era already happened, but it just became official today.)
The ever iconic original BlackBerry phones will no longer be functional. The company has announced that they are going to stop supporting them, ending the technologically alternative lifestyle of that one person you know. While the BlackBerry itself has been bordering on out of business since 2016, this official end, which will happn on Tuesday, puts the period on a sentence that had long been written.
Early on, from the 1990s to the early 2000s, the BlackBerry phone was THE phone to have. According to an article on Muscatine Journal, "The devices became a status symbol and fixture for people on Wall Street, celebrities like Kim Kardashian, and even former President Barack Obama, thanks in part to its great reputation for security. At its peak in 2012, BlackBerry had more than 80 million active users." With it's easy to use keyboard and, at the time, high tech software, it was the go to device for business professionals and celebrity personalities alike.
However, with the rise of the iPhone, the once cutting-edge BlackBerry began to fade into technological oblivian. The touchscreen and other advancements that were offered by the iphone caused the BlackBerry to pale in comparision. Even though BlackBerry attempted to adapt and change in order to compete with the Apple product, the adaptations did not suit the BlackBerry in an effective way.
We are sad to see the BlackBerry come to an end, but it had a great run!
