The US, Canada, UK, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands are now free to pre-order the DTEK50, BlackBerry’s first of two mid-range smartphones for the next year.As rumored, the phone is produced by TCL and is very much similar to the Alcatel Idol 4. We saw a ...
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Despite the moderate box-office success of its rookie Android-based hardware effort, BlackBerry is still looking to release no less than three new phones running the world’s most popular OS over the next few months, according to rock-solid sources.The first of the bunch is arguably the least glamorous model, and should go official ...
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The first of two prospective BlackBerry devices powered by Android has made its way through the FCC for radios certification.A look-up of the FCC ID as leaked gives us 17 entries owing to BlackBerry. Its model name, STH100-2, corresponds to previous leaks regarding the Hamburg model. The phone, as tested, supports two major GSM bands in the US and also supports LTE bands 2, 7, 38 and 41. ...
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Forget everything you thought you knew about BlackBerry’s short-term hardware business-rebooting plans. It turns out there are not just two, but three security-focused Android phones in the pipeline, codenamed Neon, Argon, and Mercury instead of Hamburg, Rome and some other large European city.Only the
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While the name “Priv” certainly had an odd ring to it at first, it wasn’t hard to grasp its origin and implication. Short for privacy, it played on a paramount selling point of BlackBerry phones since, well, forever.Now, the Android-powered QWERTY keyboard/touchscreen hybrid pretty much failed to substantially revive the ...
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BlackBerry could be saving money on its “mobility solutions” unit not by giving it up entirely — to investors’ chagrin — but through an ODM agreement.Roland Quandt of WinFutre.de picked up a Wi-Fi Alliance certification dated June 24 for a TCL Communications (or, Alcatel to the consumer side) device with model number STH100-2.Blackberry Hamburg STH100-2 ...
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While BlackBerry’s first ever Android smartphone has hardly been selling like hotcakes, with or without discounts, the Canadian company that’s increasing its focus in the software landscape doesn’t want to throw in the hardware-producing towel either.Not with (modest) shipment goals ...
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen wrapped up a talk at the Milken Institute Global Conference today with some media stew. That stew was all up in the company’s smartphones — phones that investors have seen the end of and that won’t be making money.When a Bloomberg interviewer pointed out Chen’s prior pledge to give up on hardware and how critics felt that the decision point was being dragged along, ...
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We got to know the BlackBerry Priv first as “Venice.” As word of an follow-on to the company’s first Android device came about, we also heard of “Vienna.” And then we wrote about some renders of supposedly new phones: one with an on-body keyboard and the name “Rome” attached to it; the other an ...
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BlackBerry has this uncanny knack for keeping itself in the news year after year, despite its smartphone market share fading away into oblivion. But already this week we’ve heard about the latest software update to hit a BlackBerry phone, as the Android-based Priv gets its big Marshmallow release, and now we find ourselves checking out a possible leak that might just reveal the next generation of BlackBerry’s handset lineup, as a set of renders and pics attempt to reveal the phones ...
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