Washington, Nov. 17 (ANI): With the sinking BlackBerry's future incomprehensible, some of its clients have apparently lost hope and started to phase out the company's devices for its employees and replacing them with iPhone or Android smartphones.
BlackBerry's clients like the US Defense Department, are developing mobile-device contingency plans to implement should BlackBerry finally, irrevocably, collapse.
While research-based pharmaceutical company, Pfizer has decided to altogether replace the employee handsets with better alternatives, AllThingsD reports.
Pfizer has asked its BlackBerry users to switch to an iPhone or Android handset when their wireless contract next permits an upgrade.
The report said that Pfizer employs some 90,000 people, and it is said that its BlackBerry deployment is 'sizable and huge', and the phasing out of BlackBerry handsets would be a major blow to the sinking smartphone company. (ANI)
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