BlackBerry to stop making phones by February 2017

By Ian Austen
Updated September 29 2016 - 3:48pm, first published 3:40pm
The BlackBerry Classic smartphone, an updated version of the PDA-style phone that made the company so popular pre-iPhone. Photo: Bloomberg
The BlackBerry Classic smartphone, an updated version of the PDA-style phone that made the company so popular pre-iPhone. Photo: Bloomberg

STEPPING away from its signature product, BlackBerry will no longer make its own smartphones, the device it once defined.

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