Thursday, 20 August 2015

This Is It, The Leaked BlackBerry 'Venice' Android

A series of blog posts on Twitter revive rumors that BlackBerry will use the Android operating system from Google.

Author Evan Blass leaked three images through Twitter, Wednesday, August 19, 2015, which shows a new model of BlackBerry phones, dubbed Venice, which will be released four operators United States in November 2015.

The picture shows a black device with the phone side and a curved sliding the bottom of the phone option to use a physical keyboard, which is characteristic of the BlackBerry. Previous leaks do not show the device keyboard.

The keyboard looks rather small thanks to the design of slider phones. Two sides of the curved screen ala Edge Edge Samsung Galaxy S6.

What is more important is it seems to have an interface device such as Android. If Venice using Android, it will be the first time for the BlackBerry. Although 10 Blackberry users can download Android apps from the Amazon App Store.

"We do not comment on rumor or speculation, but we remain committed to the BlackBerry 10 operating system that provides security and productivity benefits that is unmatched," said a spokesman for the BlackBerry.

Blass is the latest person who adds to speculation that the BlackBerry update themselves with Venice. As a contributor to the site Mashable, Blass famous personal accountevleaks. He gained followers for exposing the latest smartphone models before being released to the public.

Growing evidence of this came when the BlackBerry device market share decreased business. According to research firm comScore, device makers who once mighty it controls only 1.5 percent of the US mobile phone market in April 2015 compared with 53.2 percent of Android and Apple's 41.3 percent. North America accounted for the largest share of sales of BlackBerry in the world, which is 43.3 percent of the share of BlackBerry.

Based on their latest quarterly earnings report, approximately 40 percent of revenue comes from hardware BlackBerry, with 38 percent of the service and 21 percent of the software and the licensing of the technology, which was released in June 2015.