BlackBerry isn’t the only company that should be rooting for the new BlackBerry Priv smartphone to be a success — Google should be rooting for it as well. The reason for this is that a successful BlackBerry Android phone could set a precedent for Android OEMs pushing out security patches in a timely fashion and thus …
For years now, BlackBerry has been struggling to maintain some semblance of relevancy in a smartphone market that seemingly passed them by in an instant. BlackBerry, a brand which once ruled the smartphone market with an iron fast, is now almost an afterthought in a market dominated by the iPhone and an assortment of Android …
To say things have gone poorly for BlackBerry’s hardware business over the past several years would be a grave understatement. The company last quarter recognized hardware revenue on just 800,000 smartphones sold with an average selling price of $240 each. That is horrendously bad and it goes a long way toward explaining why it’s now trying its …
The remaining BlackBerry diehards don’t have a new BlackBerry 10 flagship phone to get excited for this year. Instead, they have the BlackBerry Priv, the world’s first BlackBerry Android phone that promises to bring the company’s first-rate mobile security to the Wild West of Google’s mobile operating system. And on Friday, U.K. retailer Carphone Warehouse posted a …
BlackBerry’s first foray into the world of Android devices comes in the form of the upcoming BlackBerry Priv. Originally introduced in September, the lure of the device will reportedly be a melding of Android with traditional BlackBerry security and productivity features. Now whether or not users will care is another question entirely, but that’s the …
While the Android world this week has been all about Google’s new Nexus devices, BlackBerry generated some buzz on Tuesday by releasing the first official photos of the BlackBerry Priv, its first-ever Android phone that will release later this year. The photo above gives us a clear shot of the device’s slide-out physical keyboard to …
Can BlackBerry make it as an Android vendor? It had better hope so because its own smartphone sales keep getting worse and worse. The once-mighty smartphone pioneer revealed on Friday (PDF) that it recognized hardware revenue on just 800,000 smartphones sold on the quarter with an average selling price of $240. It goes without saying that this …
