TCL, the company that now owns
the BlackBerry phone brand, is expected to unveil the BlackBerry Mercury, a phone that still tries to combine a physical keyboard and a touchscreen.
The BlackBerry phone brand, meanwhile, has been kept alive thanks to licensing partnerships, most notably with Chinese manufacturer TCL.
Not exact matches
Heins said RIM plans to use its existing
BlackBerry 7 line to upgrade feature
phone users to their first smartphones in overseas markets where the
brand is still wildly popular.
In September 2016,
BlackBerry announced it would stop making its own
phones and rely on third - party partners for any
BlackBerry -
branded devices.
Rather, all development for
BlackBerry -
branded phones will be left to
BlackBerry's partners, which will license
BlackBerry's technology and
brand, while the Canadian company concentrates on growing its software business.
Although it's unclear whether the
phone will live up to Jobs's lofty promise, a quick look at the specs on Apple's website makes me look askance at my
brand new
BlackBerry Pearl (and every other cell
phone, for that matter).
Chen also hopes the Priv will help improve the company's viability, repair the
brand and eventually make it possible to produce another
phone running
BlackBerry 10 — although he said it's too early to talk about those plans.
The
BlackBerry Curve 8520 (Curve 2) being the cheapest available in the market is selling pretty well and even those who can't afford a
brand new device, go for the US / UK refurbished
BlackBerry phones that cost around half the asking price of the new ones.
Midweek, the upcoming Sony PlayStation mobile
phone was seen with Xperia branding and the BlackBerry PlayBook was caught on video, showing off its multimedia capabilities and Amazon's Kindle app became available for Windows Pho
phone was seen with Xperia
branding and the
BlackBerry PlayBook was caught on video, showing off its multimedia capabilities and Amazon's Kindle app became available for Windows
PhonePhone 7.
Instead, you'll have to buy a
brand new dual - core
BlackBerry phone designed to run QNX.
Blackberry loyalists see this
phone as the resurrection of the
brand and within hours has completely sold out.
These handsets come from some of the most popular
brands in the tech scene, running on popular platforms covering Windows
Phone 7, iOS,
BlackBerry and Android.
I have had every single
Blackberry phone since the original Pearl and have been really loyal to the
brand.
This latest
BlackBerry -
branded smartphone will be sold as an unlocked
phone and priced in the US at $ 449.99.
Future
BlackBerry -
branded Android handsets may support wireless charging and even a
phone - to - PC solution reminiscent of the Samsung Desktop Experience (DeX) platform, according to a newly leaked sketch of an accessory designed for one such device.
TCL Communication, the fourth - largest mobile
phone manufacturer in North America announced today plans of a portfolio business model that will enable an entire suite of mobility products, including a
brand you might know of even if you haven't used them in a while,
BlackBerry.
As it happens, the
phone didn't even follow on in the numbering sequence of the currently official
BlackBerry -
branded Android
phones.
In an interview with Engadget, François Mahieu, head of global sales for TCL, the Chinese company that currently holds the rights to manufacture
phones under the
BlackBerry brand, said
BlackBerry Mobile's next smartphone will launch in October.
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In May 2017, TCL released the well - received
BlackBerry KEYOne, which brought back the
phone brand's signature physical QWERTY keyboard.
The additional confusion: Beyond their agreement with TCL, through a joint venture
BlackBerry also licensed their
brand / software to a company called PT BB Merah Putih that will be marketing
BlackBerry phones in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
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Getting a taste of the Mercury at CES and chatting with the
BlackBerry Mobile folks a bit, I quickly saw that this is a team that LOVES the
BlackBerry brand and is clearly passionate about making sexy hardware and
BlackBerry phones that deliver a killer user experience.
Instead the company has licensed out its
brand to TCL who has been making
BlackBerry phones for the past couple of years.
The other day, I finally joined the OS7 masses, getting a
brand new
BlackBerry Torch 9860 (I really liked the CDMA version of the
phone).
Seeing as how this was my first day with a
brand - new
BlackBerry, I really put the
phone through its paces.
The
brand new
BlackBerry phones are finally on their way to the nation's carriers.
Probably the best
phone at this price Point Pros:
BlackBerry os Android app support Screen quality Gesture based UI
Brand Value Cons: Camera to some extent Lack of native
BlackBerry apps Heating problems Overall the
phone is a sure head turner.
As the study notes, the hand - me - down effect suggests
BlackBerry will retain its position as the third most popular
phone brand, but it still faces some challenges from others in the area, most notably Samsung.
Additionally, World Wide Worx and GeoPoll polled 3,500 mobile
phone users in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda (700 from each) and found 17 percent of
phone users indicated they'd be going with
BlackBerry as their next
phone brand.
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But the most exciting thing for me in this article is the
brand of this
phone which is «
Blackberry».
Today has announced that it has signed a deal with China's TCL Communication to give it exclusive rights to sell
BlackBerry -
branded phones in most countries, who had developed the DTEK50 and DTEK60.
BlackBerry phones got their biggest push in four years last night, as Chinese tech giant TCL relaunched the
brand in Barcelona with a new 4.5» Android QWERTY it calls KEYone.
From now on, TCL, which also markets
phones under the Alcatel
brand, will do the design and marketing of
BlackBerry - badged
phones, while
BlackBerry Mobile continues to develop its «hardened» Android.
A
brand new image of an upcoming
BlackBerry phone has surfaced online.
BlackBerry promises 24 months of guaranteed monthly security updates with the device, and the lightweight skin may appeal to Nexus owners left behind as Google turns its own -
brand phones into a high - end consumer
brand.
With
BlackBerry selling the rights to design, manufacture, and sell
BlackBerry -
branded phones to Chinese multinational TCL in 2016,
BlackBerry is now in charge of software and mobile security products.
Earlier this month it announced that it has signed a deal with China's TCL Communication to give it exclusive rights to sell
BlackBerry -
branded phones in most countries.
As you may recall,
BlackBerry as we knew it died last year when it turned its
phone business into a
brand and software licensing unit.
BlackBerry spun out what was left of its handset division in September, retaining the platform and security teams but allowing licensees to pick up the challenge of designing and marketing
BlackBerry -
branded phones.
Orange leaked own
branded San Francisco II ZTE made
phone, on
phone's support page and Sony Ericsson X10 mobile
phone is now getting an upgrade to the current version of Android on O2, whilst Sky adds a news application to Research In Motion's
BlackBerry handsets.
Canadian mobile
phone maker Research In Motion has unveiled the Porsche Design P» 9981
BlackBerry handset, as a luxury
branded smartphone that is set to deliver engineered luxury and performance.
Just ahead of the imminent launch of its new
BlackBerry 10 powered devices, the maker of
BlackBerry branded mobile
phones RIM has decided to rename its applications store.
Finally, the confusingly
branded Torch 9850/9860 for AT&T and Sprint is a totally touchscreen
BlackBerry, with the biggest display RIM's put on a
phone yet — 3.7 inches.
«It all came to a head when our IT department said they didn't have the resources to support the Samsung Galaxy or iPhones in addition to the
BlackBerry or whatever
brand of
phone people had.»
BlackBerry Limited — the company formerly known as Research In Motion — stopped designing and building its own
phones back in 2016, instead licensing the
brand out to others.
Although it's close to dying out (sorry, BB fans),
Blackberry is set to debut its Android - based Mercury
phone that will feature a physical keyboard, just like the
brand's well received models from its heyday.
HMD Global has leveraged the Nokia
brand to great effect with its Nokia 3310 and 8110 4G
phones, and
BlackBerry is exploiting the desire to standout from the crowd by combining strong hardware with the same desirable core values that originally built the
brand.
The new
brand has made a big splash by focusing on the things that everyone remembers
BlackBerry phones being great at, while remaining modern and interesting.