Recently, interviewed Peter Franklin, CEO of OnwardMobility, a company that currently operates BlackBerry phones. He stated that he will release the BlackBerry 5G mobile phone this year that will be equipped with a classic BlackBerry keyboard.
the well-known mobile phone brand BlackBerry (BlackBerry) failed to keep up with the trend of smartphones and was acquired in 2013. After that, it reached a cooperation agreement with TCL and BlackBerry Mobile in 2016 and unveiled several new phones that have been introduced.
At the beginning of 2020, the cooperation between the two companies ended, and another company, OnwardMobility, replaced TCL to design and manufacture BlackBerry-branded mobile phones.
The company is currently cooperating with Foxconn to jointly develop a new 5G device with a physical keyboard. Previously, the official said it would release this product in North America and Europe. But the company’s CEO Frank said that Asia is also a very important market, and mobile phones will also be released in Asia.
He has not revealed the release date of the smartphone, but OnwardMobility hopes to release it as soon as possible, because this is a very iconic device on a global scale, and the Asian market is very important to the company. Franklin also said, ‘We are promoting to customers and sellers around the world, introducing product sales strategies.’
The BlackBerry brand was established in Canada. Around 2010, with its iconic physical keyboard and unique system experience, mobile phones became popular worldwide. After cooperating with TCL, the brand launched a smartphone KEY2 LE equipped with a keyboard.
This phone is equipped with a 4.5-inch screen, and also has three Android King Kong buttons and a physical QWER keyboard.
The space bar includes fingerprint recognition. The mobile phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 processor, 4GB of memory, and 64GB of space. When it is released in 2018, the price is as high as US$499.99 that is about 3227 yuan.
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