Credit: Onward Mobility
- Onward Mobility has reportedly shut down.
- The company made tech headlines in 2020 after announcing plans for BlackBerry-branded phones.
We first heard about startup Onward Mobility’s plans to offer new BlackBerry-branded phones back in August 2020. At the time, the company confirmed that these “new 5G BlackBerry phones” were coming in 2021. But this launch window clearly didn’t happen.
It then claimed in a January 2022 blog post that it wasn’t dead and that a keypad-toting 5G phone would be on the way (although the BlackBerry name wasn’t mentioned in this post). Unfortunately, CrackBerry has now reported that Onward Mobility is indeed dead, citing multiple sources for the information.