The best BlackBerry phone released this year was actually an Android phone . That about sums up the current state of BlackBerry 10, the mobile operating system that was unveiled with great fanfare in 2013 but has since spiraled steadily downward into the same black hole-of irrelevance that consumed webOS and Firefox OS. In fact, BlackBerry 10 has really become the mobile platform equivalent of AOL's dial-up Internet service in the sense that-people still use it even though you're always surprised to find out when they do. FROM EARLIER:- The biggest ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ plot holes explained I was reminded of this today when looking at Nielsen's big survey on the state of the American smartphone

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