BlackBerry OS devices will stop working on January 4, 2022

<p>I decided to pull out my Passport and Z30 and set them up again (while I still can)! I wanted to see what I could still do, and to see what would die after the 4th. We’ll see.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, BlackBerry World won’t run (no network connection), but that died a long time ago. So, Amazon App Store it is (or nothing else).</p><p><br></p><p>No Amazon Prime, no Netflix. They’re either not available or won’t work. Sadly, the Plex app doesn’t work. There’s always the web interface, but I haven’t tried it yet.</p><p><br></p><p>The devices come with the BB10 Twitter client, but it also reports the lack of a network connection.</p><p><br></p><p>The Amazon shopping app is also preinstalled, but diverts you to the website. The LinkedIn app is preinstalled but I probably won’t bother with that. DuoLingo has a connection problem. Facebook is preinstalled but that’s an automatic NO from me.</p><p><br></p><p>Audible doesn’t work.</p><p><br></p><p>The Feedly app runs, but you can’t log in, so you’re stuck with generic topics. But that’s good enough if you just want to kill time.</p><p><br></p><p>The preinstalled YouTube app just opens the browser, but it works (although I haven’t signed in yet)</p><p><br></p><p>Here are the apps I *did* get installed and which run:</p><p><br></p><p>HDHomeRun View – Watch TV on your BlackBerry if you have the HDHomeRun TV tuners on your network!</p><p>Human Japanese (and Intermediate) – Yeah, I’m thinking of going back to learning that (’cause I’m nuts)</p><p>PocketBible – that thing runs *everywhere* ;)</p><p>TWIT Play – calendar doesn’t work, but the live audio works</p><p>Trek Notifications – awesome ring tones</p><p>AlphaZero – great space shooter</p><p>Orrery – A great, well, planetary orrery</p><p>Pinterest – it’s the older interface but it runs (they warn you about having limited features)</p><p>Roku and Fire TV apps – They run, but haven’t signed in yet</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Skype, Microsoft Outlook, OneNote – all still available and run, but I haven’t signed into any of them yet (and may not).</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Spotify – it’s slow, but it works (although I’m not a Premium member now, so can’t test that part of it)</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">TV Guide doesn’t work, but "TV Listings" does, and it runs great (one of the best designed apps for this)</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Piano Companion</span></p><p>DocsToGo – Yeah, it’s from BlackBerry, but that wasn’t a "given". I own a key to it, so I’m able to run it. If you don’t have a key, you may not be able to buy one.</p><p>AnkiDroid (and various other language learning apps I won’t mention)</p><p>AccuWeather (although the BlackBerry weather app works fine and uses AccuWeather services)</p><p>Kindle works on the Z30 but is not available on the PassPort (sadly).</p><p><br></p><p>There are some apps that are only available for the Z30 but not the PassPort, even though they would probably run fine (like "White Noise", which runs fine on the Z30). That’s just lazy programming.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, the web browser can probably be used for a lot of this. I may get around to testing that within the next couple of weeks.</p><p><br></p><p>The Z30 only has 2GB of RAM (compared to the Passport’s 3GB), so it’s a bit more problematic running some of these Android apps. For example, the Fire TV app installs, but never appears.</p>