BlackBerry Mobile

BlackBerry Mobile was a trading name used by TCL Communication between December 2016 and August 2020 to manufacture and sell BlackBerry-branded devices worldwide, excluding the regions where BB Merah Putih (Indonesia) and Optiemus Infracom (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal) operated.

The original parent company BlackBerry Limited (formerly Research in Motion) of BlackBerry devices decided in 2016 to cease direct competition in the smartphone market and instead focus on producing security software. The last smartphone manufactured by BlackBerry Limited was the BlackBerry Priv. TCL Communication then manufactured the BlackBerry DTEK50 and DTEK60, the last BlackBerry devices to be sold directly by BlackBerry Limited. TCL was charged with manufacturing, distributing, and designing BlackBerry-branded devices for the global market. The BlackBerry KEYone was the first device made under the BlackBerry Mobile brand, and the last where the hardware was designed by BlackBerry Limited. TCL went on to design, manufacture and distribute the BlackBerry Motion, Key2 and Key2 LE under the BlackBerry Mobile brand, with BlackBerry Limited continuing to support the devices' software and security features.