BlackBerry Venice Slider to Be Launched as the BlackBerry Priv

While Chen made an huge stride in revamping BlackBerry’s device business by outsourcing manufacturing and development to avoid repeats of the inventory buildups that had long plagued the company, Scotia’s Chan explains why a more radical change would be beneficial.

A recent hands-on video shows the BlackBerry Priv with a QWERTY keyboard featuring a capacitive touch input, which enables users to scroll through the page just by touching the keyboard.

The BlackBerry Venice has been the star of a number of leaks lately, including reports that suggest that it’ll launch on all four U.S. carriers in November. Some will have heard of the much-rumored BlackBerry Venice, tipped to be a high-end slider handset running Android.

The interesting thing about this handset is that it marks a departure from BB’s own OS, instead offering fully-fledged Android, so able to access the Play Store and all of Google’s services.

The Priv stands for Privacy.

From what we know, the Android Lollipop handset is expected to feature a 5.4-inch Quad-HD screen, 1.8GHz 64-bit hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor, and 3GB of RAM. In order to catch the fancy of the photography lovers, the phone is also likely to sport an 18-megapixel primary camera with dual LED flash, and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera for selfies. Hopefully we’ll hear some confirmed news soon so that we can remove all doubt.

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“There is an opportunity for BlackBerry to differentiate itself from numerous generic Android vendors by focusing on the enterprise market to easily achieve its 10-million unit goal”, Chan wrote.