The U.S. Senate is set to finally kick its BlackBerry habit.

Lawmakers’ staffers were informed last week that the Senate would no longer provide them with any more of the communications devices. The announcement marked the end of an era for the once-ubiquitous tools, widely dubbed “crackberries” for the way they became essential to users’ lives.

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