What we can still love about using a BlackBerry
i've been using blackberry since 2009, it was my first smartphone that i owned and i was psyched since then. i used every model of blackberry except for the passport SE, and let me tell you that we were truly lucky for our choice. i wanna tell you that it wasn't about security to me (because blackberry devices aren't that secure after all if the CIA have access to them) it's about the very aesthetics of the phone, how fancy and well made they are, how different, how long they last.. just perfection. blackberry is giving up on us, us means everybody using a blackberry on this planet - they did so because we became rare lol. there is less than 200000 users still active worldwide. they won't keep running the services and servers paying teams to operate and fix them just for our own pleasure (since they don't gain no more money anymore - it's a company, you know..) the bright side is even after the 4th of January 2022, YOU ALL gonna be able to use your blackberry just perfectly, because the servers and services aren't that reliable since a long time ago and we are still enjoying the experience. you don't need blackberry world for sure because it has none to offer, you don't need blackberry protect you just need to protect your blackberry and not lose it, you don't need BIS, you don't need BBID as well to keep using your beloved handheld. you just need to be a stubborn blackberry die hard lol. i'll give you an example: i have a curve that i am not using anymore, it isn't set with any BBID and it has the protect features off and dead already, it has no connections with blackberry all in all, and because i do live in africa it still can make phone calls, send sms, send email, browse the Internet, just perfectly. that proves what? it proves that even after the EOL or D-DAY, you can still be able to use your blackberry devices running on blackberry 10 OS, PERFECTLY. just get rid of blackberry as she dumped us all, delete your BBID, turn off your protect features, and download everything you wanna keep from the store (that if you found any lol) and get ready to enjoy your device for the rest of eternity. phone calls and sms? would only cease functioning in the United States of America, the rest of the world is fine. and notice that the curve I told you about is running on 2G connection still, finely. (in my case because i live in africa it is possible) and for europeans they'll still be able to use their 3G on their older blackberry devices and also on their blackberry 10 devices. so there is none to worry about, just get over the holy services that blackberry offered, because they weren't that reliable after all. and hey, you all are amazing humans just for the fact that you are still fighting to use a blackberry in an android/ios era, you people are truly amazing and special to the core (even if blackberry itself sold our very data to whoever they pleased...) and i wanna tell that i've been sneaking to this forum since forever and i never had an account until today i created one just to thank this forum's veterans, you people solved my problems since 2009 and I never had the chance to truly thank you from the bottom of my heart. one last thing: make sure before the D-DAY to install that blackberry google ID that is still available, you'll be able to use your whatsapp after 4 january freely, and also enjoy the supported play store apps (and so many worked perfectly for me) and hey, do not give up on your blackberry because trust me there isn't a better option. much love to every single one of you, and thank you so much from a blackberry user there somewhere in Africa.