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RIM to Announce First BlackBerry 10 Device in August – Release By October
After a truly torrential 12 months for the Canadian company, RIM is in the works of releasing its first BlackBerry 10 device. The next-gen BlackBerry device is rumored to be the one that will either safe the company or stand alongside it as it sinks. There have been leaks about the device but nothing as concrete as we would like. From an online report, the folks over at n4bb claims that a source has let them in on a bit of information about the BlackBerry 10 device coming by mid-August.
The BlackBerry 10 device in question will allegedly be touch only and the source has informed them that RIM plans to pump in a lot of money for marketing purposes. The first traditional QWERTY keyboard BlackBerry 10 release has also been reported to be in Q1 2013. This might be the BlackBerry Slider that has been floating about the internet in the form of a rumor so it doesn’t hold much water. That said, with companies like RIM and Nokia, the mobile world hopes that they bounce back with devices that will make it harder to stay with their current devices. If they don’t then they will eventually end up losing the battle of siphoning Android and iPhone users away from their currently preferred smartphones.
Back in the day, it was anathema to think that Apple computers would run on Intel processors, and Apple machines would have Microsoft Office running on them. Well, those days have long since arrived and gone, and it looks like to hear of a BlackBerry device running on Android? Now that’s what is going to happen with the BlackBerry Priv, where the folks over at Vietnam-based Karalux have something special up their sleeves for this handset, that is, by offering a gold-plating service.
It is going to be more challenging than usual though, as Karalux shared, “Unlike the previous generations, it is a little bit more difficult to disassemble BlackBerry Priv. Karalux engineers took nearly 2 hours to ‘operate’ its details, and spent 4 more hours with more than 10 different procedures to complete the first gold-plated BlackBerry Priv in Vietnam.”
The handset and gold-plating will cost $1,111 thereabouts, whereas international customers will have to fork out more at approximately $1,350 to bring one of these puppies back home. [Press Release]
It looks like BlackBerry has not decided to call it quits just yet where the smartphone market is concerned, and this time around, their unannounced smartphone has been given the codename BlackBerry Venice. What makes the BlackBerry Venice special is the fact that this could very well be one of BlackBerry’s very first devices that will run on the Android mobile operating system.
In recent times, we have heard that the BlackBerry Venice ought to be made available some time down the road over at AT&T. Apparently, @evleaks claims that this new handset, too, will be sold by T-Mobile, although there is no exact word on availability.
Whispers on the street point to the BlackBerry Venice arriving later this November. I guess all that we can do now is to sit tight and wait.
[MWC 2015] BlackBerry might not be the tour de force that it once was in the world of smartphones, but this does not mean that the company is a pushover, either. We have learned that this particular edition of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, has seen a new BlackBerry device introduced – the all new BlackBerry Leap smartphone for 4G LTE networks. Touted to be an affordable all-touch smartphone that is housed in a modern and powerful design, it will specially target career builders as well as companies who value both security and privacy when bringing productivity to a whole new level.
Hardware and software specifications include a 5” edge-to-edge HD display, a 2,800mAh battery life, BlackBerry OS 10.3.1, a best-in-class BlackBerry keyboard, BlackBerry Blend, BlackBerry Assistant, dual app storefronts that come preloaded for access to a huge selection of apps for work and play (BlackBerry World and Amazon Appstore), among others. [Press Release]