I Have Just Bought A New Mobile Phone - A Blackberry

[starone]

I have just bought a new mobile phone - a blackberry and while experimenting with it - uselessly as it happens - I turned it off by pressing something at the top - and now unfortunately (for me) I cannot work out how to turn it back on. Can anyone help please, before I throw the damn thing across the room, stamp on it and then into the bin with it.

[douglas9401]

Try pressing and holding the same button for a few seconds.

[Guilbert53]

Bad decision to buy a blackberry.

The company are struggling and hugely in debt and their latest phones have got bad reviews.

Any chanced that you can change it?

More here

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2473044/6-reasons-blackberry-crumbled-in-the-smartphone-market

[starone]

Thanks for your help. Douglas, I have tried your suggestion several times, but no luck. The word Blackberry appears for a moment and then disappears, never to be seen again. I shall have to go into town and ask the chap in the telephone shop to help me - ah, me, what a waste of time. I am beginning to think Guilbert is right and I should not have bought it. Thanks, anyway, both of you for taking the trouble to help me.

[Smowball]

Is it possibly just flat??

[LochNessMonster]

Sound like the battery is flat starone. Charge battery and turn phone on when connected to your household power supply.

[Prudie]

The on/off button is the telephone handset one on the far right under the screen, if that doesn't work I would also suggest it's flat. I have a work issued Blackberry, originally chosen because its security was meant to be superior (although they are being phased out and not replaced), I've wanted to throw it out the window a thousand times, worst phone I've ever had