AT&T forcing me to give up my BB.

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AT&T is turning off most unlocked phones. THey are claiming they aren't 5G compatible

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Idk what they’re telling you but LTE phones will be around for 20+ years minimum

Just asking: can you give a little more context or source?

Other than it being time to once-again replace the battery, my old Q10 speed-king still keeps everyone else in my business on their toes.

That being said, the 5G monster looms on the horizon. Word of a new BB -- even if it's just a TCL-built phone -- seems to have disappeared from Crackberry.

It's not LTE that's the problem, it's their 3G. AT&T doesn't support VoLTE on unlocked phones (well most as there are a few exceptions and workarounds). In order for unlocked phones to make calls, they have to drop down to 3G W-CDMA. And because AT&T is shutting down 3G soon, unlocked phones won't have a voice fallback.

In order to make calls in the future, you're going to need a phone capable of voice over LTE (VoLTE). That means that only phones sold by AT&T, newer iPhones, newer Galaxy S phones, and newer Pixels will work moving forward. AT&T could whitelist batches of popular unlocked phones and phones bought from competing carriers like T-Mobile does, but they refuse.

I dont think this is true.

DId some more research, it does appear that if you can't do VoLTE you are going to get fricked.

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my old Q10 speed-king still keeps everyone else in my business on their toes.

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Damn son! I loved my Q10 and my Passport that followed. The KeyOne was terrible. Wish I could still use a BB but the majority of my business communications have moved to text and iMessage is king.

I don’t have any experience with the Key2. The KeyOne was bad enough to scare me away for good.

Had a Z10 not long after they came out, then upgraded to a Z30. Absolutely loved it while they were still updating BB10, and most 3rd party Android apps were still working.

Once they abandoned the o/s and went full Android though the writing was on the wall.