also has a sliding physical keyboard, and a curved screen; uses a standard Android with some applications that the company brings BB10
BlackBerry today put on sale its smartphone Priv: the first team of the company . Android (and indeed, the first Blackberry phone with an operating system other than itself), and a device that has been talking since early this year
No wonder: it is the most important release BlackBerry made in its history. John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, and said last October that if this model (and a couple more with BlackBerry 10 planned for later) do not reach the 5 million phones sold in the year, evaluate seriously stop selling phone, which in recent years was a ruinous business; in the last quarter it sold 800,000 computers. What for? To become a software and services (both for security management of smartphones and tablets enterprises to provision of embedded systems for automotive, hospitals and others), where the company has a strong and thriving business.
Joining Android solves one of historical BlackBerry 10 complaints about the lack of applications. The company tried to solve this by integrating a support at the operating system Android and adding the Amazon app store, but it was not enough. He also said users still demand a physical keyboard as a method of text entry with the Passport line, praised by the most faithful of his community but failed to turn the pace of sales.
curved screen and keyboard
The BlackBerry Priv retrieves a format used long line with the Torch and which is absent in the market, combining a sliding keyboard hidden behind its 5.4-inch touchscreen and 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution, which has curved edges in the style of Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, and is protected by Gorilla Glass 4.
In addition to allowing text input, the physical keyboard functions as a surface touch, making it useful as a touchpad to move the cursor, scroll through a web page without touching the screen, etc., which the company had already implemented in the Passport.
The rest of the hardware the phone is similar to high-end phones from other manufacturers, with 3 GB of RAM, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 chip 6 cores, 32 GB of internal storage (and microSD slot), a camera 18 megapixel, optical image stabilization , 4K video recording, phase detection autofocus, aperture f / 2.2 and optical Schneider-Kreuznach. It also has a 2 megapixel front camera, plus 4G / 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC and Bluetooth 4.1. The complete battery set of 3410 mAh, also compatible with induction charging, the style of Galaxy S6 and several Nokias. The alternative, a microUSB charger.
It costs (no line) $ 700 in the United States.
Android, with the heritage of BB10
phone runs Android 5.1.1 with several added features that the company, which brings BlackBerry 10: one is Hub, an application that provides unified management of email accounts, instant messaging and social networks, and allows see it all in one application, if the user wishes
Another addition is DTEK, which aims to make safer Android. The company says it will offer security updates monthly (whether the phone released bought or operator); DTEK also analyzes the behavior of the phone to see if it is safe, one designed especially for corporate users tool. It also has, of course, support BES12, corporate software device management (now compatible with BlackBerry, Android and iOS) and activation profiles to define, detect changes in phone settings that might come from spyware, etc. .
The company implemented widgets emerging: instead of having a widget on a panel of the home screen (these mini applications that occupy most of the screen) is seen as an icon, but to make a Vertical gesture upon them the widget, which closes when you stop using it unfolds; Alcatel has something similar in their latest models. He also modified the notification system, which in the drop-down menu now, in addition to each alert, displays an icon of each courier with unread messages, and leading to the BlackBerry Hub.
And added a internal search to find this text in the e-mail, contacts, calendar, documents, stored on the phone, etc. files. It also has a contact manager and different base that comes with Android calendars.
The phone is thinking especially for corporate use, and takes the curved screen to open, from the side, a panel “productivity” that shows a summary calendar, messages from senders identified as important, to-dos, and so on. The company also includes a centralized password manager.
BlackBerry says it is preparing to upgrade to Android Marshmallow.
What about BlackBerry 10?
The company says it will not abandon its own operating system, which has a couple of dispostivos in probably cheaper way. preparing and updating the operating system to 10.3.3 next March
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