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It’s been a long, bumpy ride, but BlackBerry is killing its Classic smartphone. The refreshingly solid Priv combined a large touchscreen with a slide-out keyboard, but the Classic maintained the traditional BlackBerry form of a small display with a physical keyboard directly below it, as well as an optical trackpad for scrolling through menus. While it does have a touchscreen, the keyboard is your primary point of interaction. Basically, it’s the form factor BlackBerry fans have long known and loved. BlackBerry’s blog post doesn’t specifically say that it will never try to make a Classic-style smartphone again, but it certainly reads like…

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