BlackBerry has reached an agreement with Catapult IP Innovations whereby it sells patents that are not essential to its business operations, including those related to its mobile devices.

The Canadian company will keep the patents on the products and services that are currently essential to its operations, but has decided to sell the rest, which correspond to mobile devices, messaging and wireless networks.

The sale agreement was signed with the US company for 600 million dollars, which will be executed through a first cash payment of 450 million dollars and a promissory note of 150 million dollars, in five annual installments of 30 million dollars in cash. from the third anniversary of the closing date.

From BlackBerry they assured in a statement that this acquisition of patents will not affect the users of the company’s products, solutions or services.

This news comes shortly after support for phones running BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier software ended.

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Source: Xataka

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BlackBerry ended the support of the services of the brand’s phones, which will no longer be available from this January 4, which may affect the making of calls or the WiFi connection.

The technology company retired legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier versions, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, as it announced in a statement at the end of December.

This action means that support for those services will effectively cease to be available “after January 4, 2022” and will therefore cease to function “reliably”.

More specifically, the company highlighted that the withdrawal of legacy services will affect Wi-Fi and mobile data connections, telephone calls, sending SMS and emergency calls.

In principle, this change does not affect BlackBerry devices with an Android operating system, such as the KEY models manufactured by TCL.

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Source: Elmundo

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