Smartphone today has become a basic and most essential personal electronics of our daily lives. We have become so much dependent on our phone that we can hardly stay a day without this gadget. Be it to our bed or even in kitchen, we tend to carry them everywhere with us but we do forget that these devices also come with high exposure to radiation with their respective Specific Absorption Rate or SAR value.

A budget version of the newly-launched BlackBerry KEY2, which is likely to be named BlackBerry KEY2 Lite or KEY2 LE, may be launched at the upcoming IFA 2018 in Berlin, Germany.

From being a businessman's assistant to a celebrity's accessory, BlackBerry phones -- initially manufactured by Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM) before the company went bankrupt -- slipped into oblivion when big-screen Android smartphones and iPhones came on stage, eclipsing the all-QWERTY handsets.

Home-grown company Optiemus Infracom, which manufactures and distributes BlackBerry-branded handsets, on Thursday launched "Evolve" and "Evolve X" smartphones in India for Rs 24,990 and Rs 34,990, respectively.

After the launch in international market, BlackBerry KEY2 is now available in the Indian market. The device is launched today by licensee Optiemus Infracom. It is the first BlackBerry-branded smartphone with dual camera setup, and has in-built features such as portrait mode and optical zoom.

In an unfortunate incident that took place a few days back, a Malaysian CEO died after his smartphone exploded. Though the exact make of the smartphone is yet to be recovered, but is said that the CEO of Cradle Fund Nazrin Hassan was using devices from BlackBerry and Huawei.

Bad News! WhatsApp will stop to support several smartphones this year. Yes, the chat company has updated few more names to its list of phones that would stop supporting WhatsApp soon. The company has announced a new list of handsets that will stop receiving WhatsApp update by the end of the year 2018.

Later, WhatsApp pushed the date to June 30 this year. Apart from BlackBerry, support for Nokia S40 has also been extended till end of this year. However, WhatsApp will stop working on Nokia S60 devices after June 30.

BlackBerry has launched a new software platform to help automakers create safe and secure connected vehicles.

The Canadian mobile handset maker BlackBerry on Wednesday reduced the price of QWERTY handsets