BlackBerry announces its first Android smartphone – Excelsior (press release) (blog)

TORONTO, 28 September- BlackBerry unveiled plans to launch the BlackBerry Priv , first smartphone to integrate the Android operating system.

The general director of the firm, John Chen, said the new phone, which gets its name from the privacy of your security technology senior, reach major markets before the end of the year.

Despite the predictions of some analysts that BlackBerry eliminate your own system BlackBerry 10 operating , the company said that so far no plans to make these changes.

During the second quarter, sales BlackBerry fell even more than 800,000 units worldwide, from 1.1 million phones.

remains to be seen whether the entry of Google Android operating system in your product will improve sales of BlackBerry terminals

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