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BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired (mobilesyrup.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had two BlackBerry devices for work, right about the time they were going away. I'd heard the keyboard was good on earlier models but it seemed like the quality had gotten pretty cheap on the later phones. The BlackBerry 10 OS on my last phone was actually pretty good, and probably would've kept them in the market if they'd launched it 5 years earlier.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

So for 20 years, it wasn't possible for anyone but BlackBerry to manufacture phones with the revolutionary technology of... checks notes... keyboards, and now that it is irrelevant to modern devices, is free for anyone to use.

Patents should be abolished.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Checks notes, that's not what happened, no. Tons of phones had/have keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As someone earlier mentioned, unihertz has a few models with physical keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

i looked into those myself. it's worth knowing that they're several Android updates behind, so the devices could be less secure.

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