Today at GITEX Technology Week in Dubai, TCL officially unveiled its all-touchscreen phone, BlackBerry Motion. Evan Blass leaked images of the device last week, and according to AndroidCentral, it will be similar to this year’s KEYOne phone in a couple of ways. It comes with a 5.5 inch HD LCD display and a Snapdragon 625 SoC processor. It will also come with 4GB of Ram, 32GB of storage, and a 4000mAh battery. And, it’s water resistant.
BlackBerry Motion goes from rumor to real... makes appearance at #GITEX in Dubai! Full touch, HUGE battery. Learn more @BBMobile! pic.twitter.com/taZuwPFxke — CrackBerry Kevin (@crackberrykevin) October 8, 2017
Hope this helps Matthew ! pic.twitter.com/loQkBGhcaO — BlackBerry Mobile (@BBMobile) October 8, 2017
AndroidCentral also says that US buyers will have to wait to get their hands on one, saying that it’ll be available first in “Middle Eastern markets like the UAE and Saudi Arabia,” for around $460.
DingDongInDaPingPong on October 9th, 2017 at 07:29 UTC »
The thing that upsets me the most about BlackBerry as a brand is that they kept making the same fucking mistakes over and over again.
They created this false dichotomy regarding the nature of their phone hardware.
Make a phone with a keyboard
Make a phone without a keyboard
They could have easily expanded their hardware into touch technology to meet the needs of the newer users while also maintaining one or two devices which are keyboard exclusive.
The problem is they waited so long that they likely will never be able to get a foothold in the current phone marketplace.
Why should I consider purchasing a BlackBerry when I have options like the iPhone, Google Pixel, HTC, Samsung, and so on.
Even Chinese brands like Huawei have managed to capture a share of the marketplace.
BlackBerry only has their name and this weird nostalgia attached to a small fraction of the aging phone population. Half of them have already jumped to Apple or similar.
gill__gill on October 9th, 2017 at 06:20 UTC »
I remember when Blackberry almost had the status as what Apple has these days
CalvinsStuffedTiger on October 9th, 2017 at 05:47 UTC »
Anyone remember the blackberry storm?