BlackBerry withdraws from its own development of smartphone

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BlackBerry, which is a pioneer brand of the current smartphone and boasted a major force at once, withdrew from its own smartphone development and announced that it is planning to outsource hardware development to partner companies in the future.

BlackBerry will stop designing its own phones and focus on software - Recode
http://www.recode.net/2016/9/28/13088322/blackberry-no-more-phones


About the withdrawal from smartphone production, BlackBerry's CEO John Chenstatement"BlackBerry is planning to terminate any internal hardware development and outsource it, thereby reducing capital requirements and returning invested capital (ROIIt will be possible to raise the level. "

Overseas news mediaRecodeIs a smartphone manufacturer in France that is called "DTEK 50" which BlackBerry is currently sellingAlcatelIt is selling it with a new name and logo on what is made, and we are preparing for preparations to completely withdraw from smartphone production steadily.

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BlackBerry released(PDF)releaseAccording to the report, the net loss in the current quarter is 372 million dollars (about 38 billion yen).

BlackBerry is told about the predicament, CEO Chien said, "We are approaching a strategic inflection point.The software development which is the axis of our business is established and the financial base of BlackBerry is strong.In the second quarter So we have more than doubled the software revenue compared to the previous year and we have also succeeded in raising the highest net profit in the history of our company. "