In the early 2000s,
Research In Motion Limited, otherwise known as RIM, became dominant in the mobile industry, under the
BlackBerry brand, by founding the smartphone industry. In 2013 RIM renamed itself BlackBerry Limited and introduced the
BlackBerry 10 (BB10) operating system, which included an
Android runtime that allowed users to run Android apps alongside native BB10 apps on their devices. The
BlackBerry Priv was launched in 2015, as their first device running exclusively on Android. The device came with a full touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY physical keyboard underneath. In 2016, BlackBerry Ltd. outsourced production to TCL to manufacture the
BlackBerry DTEK50 and
DTEK60, full-touchscreen devices. Later that year BlackBerry announced that they were moving away from in-house manufacturing and production, and moving to become a software security company. In December 2016, TCL was chosen to be the global licensee of the BlackBerry smartphone brand, except for in Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The licensees in these countries were
BB Merah Putih in Indonesia and
Optiemus Infracom in the rest. At
CES 2017, TCL showed off the rumored BlackBerry 'Mercury' with a physical keyboard, although not stating any specifications of the device. Ahead of
Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona, Spain, TCL officially announced the device, stating its official name is the
BlackBerry KeyOne. This device is the last smartphone where the hardware was designed by BlackBerry Ltd. rather than TCL. The KeyOne was also the first device sold under the "BlackBerry Mobile" brand. The full-touchscreen
BlackBerry Motion followed later that year, and the
BlackBerry Key2 and
BlackBerry Key2 LE were released the following year. In February 2020, it was announced that TCL Corporation would stop manufacturing the devices on August 31, 2020, coinciding with the end of their access to the BlackBerry license. The last developed phone was the
BlackBerry Key2 LE. In August 2020, BlackBerry signed a new licensing agreement for smartphones with the US-based startup company, OnwardMobility. The company never released a device before shutting down in 2022. The licenses to manufacture and sell BlackBerry devices in South Asia and Indonesia have also lapsed. ==Devices==