The Huawei Mate 10 and ZTE Axon M for AT&T got their launch events this week! We talk about those and BlackBerry's latest moves with CrackBerry Kevin!
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Before TCL took over BlackBerry smartphone production and marketing, the BlackBerry Priv was released running Android Lollipop and will stay on Marshmallow.
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A largely mysterious TCL-made BlackBerry has just made its first online appearance, fitting the general description of a DTEK50 sequel.
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Two older phones get some spring cleaning detergent sprayed onto them for some discount action. Will you take a PRIV or DTEK50 home?
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China's TCL is looking to further ramp up its smartphone-producing efforts this year, with own-brand, BlackBerry and... Palm hardware?!
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They're not massive, but the latest BlackBerry DTEK60 and DTEK50 price cuts should help sweeten the two's deals for Valentine's Day.
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Future BlackBerry-branded smartphones sold in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh will be manufactured and distributed by a company called Optiemus.
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After pretty much taking over the BlackBerry mobile hardware division just last week, China-based TCL concisely teased the looming CES 2017 announcement of #TheNewBlackBerry on its North American President and GM’s Twitter feed.
The manufacturer behind all those super-cheap Alcatel-branded handhelds of recent years, as well as the DTEK50 and 60, is still not ready to share many details on exactly what’s coming to Vegas early next month.
But we now know for certain the “BlackBerry brand legacy will live on in a new generation” of TCL-made smartphones. Yes, that’s smartphones (plural), and an entire new “generation”, although we’re merely promised a “first look” at the “evolutionary” addition of the new BlackBerry brand of smartphones to the company’s “current portfolio.”
If we were to venture a wild guess therefore, we’d expect the physical QWERTY keyboard-sporting DTEK70, aka Mercury, to get a full announcement between January 5 and 8, with general (and generic) plans of what comes next also likely to be further discussed.
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited (TCT) aims to transition from the “number four handset manufacturer in North America to a tier one portfolio brand” with this “business update”, trusting BlackBerries to work as “building blocks of our new growth strategy.” And yes, “additional announcements” are on schedule for later in 2017, so we’re definitely looking at a partnership for the long haul.
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The Priv, DTEK50 and DTEK60 will head into 2017 with a new look in some of their apps. BlackBerry has announced updates to its Hub+ apps, Android keyboard, Launcher and Password Keeper that include bugfixes and performance tweaks.
Beyond that, Hub+ apps now keep your cadre of accounts more organized by allowing users to hide some of them and prevent them from syncing data. A default email account can also be set for use from within the Hub. Emails can be prioritized by contacts and shown with the contacts’ avatars besides the message previews. Attachments in the .eml format are now viewable. The Tasks app can now hide completed tasks.
The Android Launcher gets “a sleeker, sexier look” with a dark theme while the keyboard has some new tricks in its same sleeve, including a more responsive switchover to different languages, Stoke and Zhuyin Chinese input and fingerprint support for Password Keeper access (as on the DTEK60). Speaking of the Keeper, there’s now a built-in webview browser, a revised and clarified password font and non-Latin character support.
If you already have these apps and haven’t taken the time to check out updates, you will probably want to do so ASAP.
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If you’re still looking for a BlackBerry-made smartphone these days — either because you’re in government, you’re a fan or an archiver — and would like a good price for the experience, consider heading to ShopBlackBerry.com.
Through November 30 at 3am Eastern, you can take advantage of big price cuts on some of the latest and oldest BlackBerry devices, including:
If you decide on taking in a BB10 device, you might not have much to deal with in terms of apps, but at least you have software support from the company.
Also note that the new DTEK60 has not gotten a discount for the season — we figured it wouldn’t happen anyways, but you do hear a tiny sigh coming out of us.
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Having trouble grasping our euphemism-packed headline, taken almost verbatim from BlackBerry’s latest quarterly financial report? In layman’s terms, it basically means BlackBerry phones as we know them are dead.No, the recently released DTEK50 and fast-approaching DTEK60 don’t technically count, setting up a new stage in the once thriving Canadian company’s evolution, where its brand and actual hardware production ...
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Forget forgetting the BlackBerry DTEK60, aka “Argon”, as rumors of the Canadian company’s smartphone production resignation will likely be officially quashed… yet again as soon as October 11.Possibly even sooner, if the newly speculated D-Day proves to be the high-end 5.5-incher’s commercial ...
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How many times does BlackBerry CEO John Chen need to stress his company’s commitment to hardware production in general and physical QWERTY devices in particular? Or how often? Will FCC and Wi-Fi certifications suffice for now to prove the end isn’t 24 hours or, probably, a few ...
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen promised that two Android smartphones would come before the company’s fiscal year went out. He made the promise in the midst of collapsing investor confidence in Waterloo’s money-losing hardware unit. Chen has repeated his belief that he could sell
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BlackBerry’s main stake in the mobile industry is security. If it can’t tout the hardware it comes out with as a unique selling point, it’s got to be security, security, security. And secure it has for its DTEK50 and Priv phones.The company’s first Android smartphones that were ...
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