Speaking during the latest company earnings call, BlackBerry CEO John Chen said the company is getting ready to expand its licensing to include things like tablets and Internet of Things products that would use the BlackBerry brand and use BlackBerry’s security features and other apps and services.
But, at least Blackberry phones and their old Playbook tablets had good reliability where the battery does not break, or catch fire like other phones, and tablets with hardware problems which are hard to fix.