Byton, China's poster child in automotive technology, has announced its partnership with Blackberry mobile. Combining forces to make Byton's Shared Experience Display a reality, the automotive entrant will utilise Blackberry's QNX technology as the basis for the software on the game-changing console. [caption id="attachment_133042" align="alignnone" width="1874"] Byton's M-Byte concept car
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As part of its partnership with BlackBerry to develop self-driving cars and other car-related technologies, Ford has hired 400 BlackBerry employees to accelerate its efforts to develop new connected car technologies as well as new wireless products. Nearly 300 of the former BlackBerry employees will be working at Ford’s new
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At the Mobile World Congress 2017 in February, BlackBerry announced the KEYone enterprise-focused Android smartphone with a physical QWERTY keyboard. The smartphone was expected to begin shipping this month, but company CEO John Chen today announced that the KEYone release will be delayed. During BlackBerry’s Q4 2017 fiscal earnings call,
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="728"] Credits: GSMArena[/caption] Blackberry is releasing its Aurora smartphone and beginning to accept pre-orders. The Aurora smartphone comes with midrange hardware, with the Snapdragon 425 SoC chipset which is paired with 4GB of RAM and also a 3,000mAh battery. Software wise, the Aurora comes with Android 7.0
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Purported press render of an upcoming BlackBerry smartphone with the model number BBC100-1 has been leaked today, showing a full-touchscreen display. According to reports, the smartphone will be called the BlackBerry Aurora. A live image showing the device had in fact shown up on the web yesterday. It is being
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According to a new report published by CNET, China’s TCL will be making three new smartphones for BlackBerry this year. There is also a possibility of the Palm brand getting revived this year. The info was shared by Nicolas Zibell from TCL Communications in a recent interview. The DTEK 50
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After a long wait, BlackBerry has finally announced the ‘Mercury’ at the Mobile World Congress. The smartphone, so far known as ‘Mercury’, has been named the BlackBerry KEYone. As we have told you in our previous ‘Mercury’ reports, the smartphone isn’t developed by TCL as an ODM device but happens
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BlackBerry recently released a teaser confirming its plans of making the ‘Mercury’ smartphone official at its Mobile World Congress 2017 press conference in Barcelona this month. However, it looks like the company might announce a new tablet as well at the event, nearly six years after it debuted the PlayBook
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BlackBerry has released a new teaser that confirms its ‘Mercury’ smartphone will be announced on the 25th of this month. The event will be held in Barcelona at 7pm local time, two days before the Mobile World Congress 2017 kicks off. Even though the ‘Mercury’ was shown off at the
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Popular tipster Roland Quandt, who has a very impressive track record with leaks in the past, today revealed the alleged spec-sheet of the upcoming ‘BBC100-1’ smartphone from BlackBerry. The ‘BBC100-1’ will not be manufactured by TCL but is instead being developed by PT BB Merah Putih. The smartphone had made
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BlackBerry today posted a video teaser on its official Twitter page, confirming that the “Mercury” will be officially unveiled on February 25th in Barcelona. The smartphone was showcased at CES 2017 earlier this month but was not officially announced. The “Mercury” is said to be the last smartphone to have
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An alleged screenshot taken on a BlackBerry ‘Mercury’ has been posted online by Roland Quandt, suggesting that the handset will feature a 1620 x 1080 resolution display and a 420 DPI. Unfortunately, the screenshot does not give us any idea regarding the exact screen size. But if rumors are to
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Recently we told you that BlackBerry would be launching its final in-house developed QWERTY smartphone early next year, codenamed ‘Mercury’. Two alleged renders of the rumored smartphone have been leaked online, showing off its physical QWERTY keyboard. Its marketing name hasn’t yet been confirmed, but it is being speculated that
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The first BlackBerry-branded smartphone from BB Merah Putih has been spotted on Indonesian regulator POSTEL’s database. The device, listed as BBC100-1, is likely to be an all-new device. BlackBerry had announced their device software licensing agreement with the then newly formed joint venture PT BB Merah Putih in September this
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Alleged images showing BlackBerry’s next smartphone with a physical QWERTY keyboard have been posted online by a Weibo user. Codenamed ‘Mercury’, the upcoming smartphone was first spotted online on the Geekbench benchmark database back in October. Subsequently, the device was confirmed by BlackBerry CEO John Chen in an interview given
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BlackBerry today formally unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the DTEK60. Unlike the Priv, the DTEK60 isn’t designed and developed by BlackBerry itself. Instead, the smartphone has been manufactured for BlackBerry by Chinese manufacturer TCL, which owns Alcatel. The DTEK60 is actually based on the high end Alcatel Idol 4S and
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The successor to Priv and BlackBerry’s next flagship smartphone, so far known as “Argon”, made an appearance on the company’s US website earlier today. Apparently, the smartphone will be marketed as the DTEK60, in line with the previous smartphone release from the Canadian company, the DTEK50. The DTEK60 will be
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The second BlackBerry Android smartphone is now official. Codenamed DTEK50, the BlackBerry Neon is a mid-range device with no physical keyboard. It offers a 5.2-inch display with 1080 x 1920 Full HD resolution and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 octa-core chipset. The smartphone also packs 3GB of RAM,
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Key specs of three upcoming BlackBerry Android smartphones codenamed Neon, Argon, and Mercury have been detailed in a new report from Venture Beat. The ‘Neon’ is said to be arriving in the July to August timeframe and will be a mid-range full touchscreen handset aimed at both the enterprise and
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Leaked images of two upcoming BlackBerry smartphones codenamed “Hamburg” and “Rome” have surfaced online. Unlike the Priv, the Hamburg will not include a physical QWERTY keyboard. The Hamburg will reportedly measure 146mm x 78mm and it appears the smartphone will be made out of metal. If that is indeed the
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