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BlackBerry To Release More Android Phones In 2016, But No New BB10 Devices (cnet.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brand-new dept.

LichtSpektren writes: BlackBerry Ltd. launched its first Android smartphone in October 2015, the BlackBerry Priv. CEO John Chen has commented "so far, so good" on the Priv's sales, two months in. Also in the same month, the BlackBerry developers' blog posted that there are no plans to make enhancements to BlackBerry OS 10 except for privacy and security updates. Now CNET is reporting that BlackBerry will release "one or two" new Android phones in 2016, but nothing with BB10.

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  1. Hope they do not abandon BB10 by xra · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That would be sad because BB10 is by far a superior os to android.

    1. Re: Hope they do not abandon BB10 by dgarciam · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The demand for bb10 OS phone has nothing to do with it's quality. It has to do with the lack of (or late) support of mainstream applications to it's ecosystem. It was a catch-22 situation where they need the support of the apps developers to gain the customer base, but need the customer base to gain the support of the apps developers. BB10OS is a wonderful child born a few years too late, where all the milk and food was mainly divided into Android and IOS