BlackBerry OS Days Numbered? Canadian Smartphone Maker Loses More Ground

It comes with an app that rates your device security based on factors such as whether you’ve enabled a passcode. Blackberry is betting big on the “Priv Secure Smartphone” as it is named, to regain its market share as a phone manufacturer. The keys on the physical keyboard are touch-sensitive which allows the user to effectively turn keyboard into a track-pad of sorts, for scrolling or positioning the cursor on the screen.

Blackberry has tried to re-enter and re-capture the smartphone market with Priv, the company’s first Android phone.

Google Play Store: Unlike old BlackBerry smartphones, Priv users will have full access to all of the apps on the Google Play store.

Google today announced that over 19,000 organizations are now either testing, deploying or using its Android for Work service. Most of the people won’t like physical keyboard.

BlackBerry is a late entrant into the Android world, but that doesn’t mean the firm has no chance to make an impact.

Let me get this straight from the off. The Priv (daft name aside) is the smartphone BlackBerry ought to have built years ago.

This high cost puts the Priv in direct competition with the iPhone and Samsung’s brilliant S6 edge. Pre-orders for the new Android phone started in October. BlackBerry had cutely hidden the keyboard so if you didnt know Priv had slider, you might never know the keyboard is there.

The Blackberry Priv, though coming at a steep price, hoped to entice businesses with the phone’s new features.

According to TechRadar, the Priv is equipped with a 5.4-inch QHD display, 3GB of RAM, Snapdragon 808 processor, a 32GB of internal storage and 18MP rear camera.

With the phone finally available for sale, it’ll be really interesting to see how the general consumer market accepts it. Will previous BlackBerry-loyalists jump onboard again now that the hardware is matched by relevant software?