Blackberry
Priv
Blackberry’s
CEO, John Chen, confirmed that the company will indeed launch an Android
powered smartphone called the Blackberry Priv. It is said to feature the
security from Blackberry and myriad of apps from Android. The focus on privacy
is where the name PRIV came from.
There
has been countless leaks about the Blackberry Priv but it was previously
thought to be name Blackberry Venice.
In
terms of design, its main difference from other Android phones is its slider
Qwerty keypad. This should immediately win over fans of physical keypads!
Its
screen size hasn’t been confirmed yet but it’s a little more than 5 inches.
It’s a quad HD panel with dual curved edges just like the Samsung Galaxy S6
Edge.
Just
like the Blackberry Passport, the Priv will also have powerful set of specs. It
runs on the octa core Snapdragon 808 chipset from Qualcomm. This is paired with
3 GB of RAM but only 32 GB of storage space. There’s a microSD card slot though.
Its main camera is an 18 Megapixel snapper with fast autofocus and able to
record 4K videos. Meanwhile, the front camera is the usual 5MP unit.
The
rest of the features and specs of the Blackberry Priv hasn’t been revealed or
leaked yet. No launch date has been specified too.
