Theresa May has supplanted her Blackberry cell phone with an iPhone.
The PM had been the “last member of the No 10 team” still utilizing a Blackberry handset, news site Politico reported.
The Canadian company behind Blackberry quit making cell phones itself in 2016, after a precarious decrease in sales, and authorized different companies to make gadgets in its name.
For security reasons, Mrs. May’s new iPhone is probably not going to have numerous applications.
The choice is a further flag of how the reputation of the Blackberry handset, once thought to be one of the world’s most secure cell phones, has changed.
“Blackberry, once the champion of the workplace, has very much become a niche player with strong competitors on all sides,” said Stuart Miles, founder of gadget review site Pocket-lint.
“It isn’t completely washed up yet – but it’s had its powerful moment in the sun. I’m not sure it will ever rise to be the trailblazer it once was.”
Of Mrs. May’s decision, he added: “It’s hard to change, but sometimes you have to embrace a new world.”
In 2013, US President Barack Obama revealed he was not permitted to have an iPhone, for security reasons, however could keep his Blackberry.
Also, in January 2017 President Donald Trump apparently needed to surrender his Android cell phone on the exhortation of US security organizations.