BlackBerry Neon/Hamburg/DTEK50 prematurely breaks cover with full specs

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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Expect an official ‘discussion’ on new BlackBerry phones to go down next week

Aside from building robust, productive mobile devices no one seems to care for anymore, and security and enterprise software that’s managed to keep its business afloat, BlackBerry is widely known for unconventional hardware announcements or early pre-release demos.Both the Passport and Priv were casually showcased by company CEO John Chen several months in advance of their commercial launches at otherwise ...

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BlackBerry stresses ‘keyboard is here to stay’, but in what form?

With both the US President and Senate apparently finally past the long-celebrated super-secure but out-of-fashion BlackBerries, an iconic design discontinued and unlikely to yield a direct successor, as well as

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Get the full scoop on the upcoming BlackBerry Neon, Argon, and Mercury phones

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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Purported photo of TCL-made BlackBerry Neon, aka Hamburg, crops up online

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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