CEO John Chen said said if it is going to bother with mobiles at all, it might as well try to be an Android device manufacturer which is focused on Enterprise rather than consumer handsets.

He added that BlackBerry will continue to support BB10 for owners of existing devices "for a minimum of two years" but the company will not be utilising the operating system on future devices.

BlackBerry 10 has been on the ropes for a while, with WhatsApp and Facebook recently withdrawing support for the platform. Chen  and Blackberry have always denied that it was going to be killed off. In fact blackberry fanboys always get miffed when we hinted that it was inevitable. When the Priv arrived, it was the equivalent of a bloke showing photos of his wife and kids in a war movie and saying he was really looking forward to coming home and being with them.