BlackBerry isn’t ready to give up on the Android market yet. According to its CEO John Chen, they plan on releasing two more Android-powered smartphones: one with a physical keyboard and another with a full touchscreen. Chen told Abu Dhabi’s The National that this would be different from the Priv will be mid-range devices. Chen admitted to The National that releasing the Priv was a misstep. “The fact that we came out with a high end phone [as our first Android device] was probably not as wise as it should have been.” It wasn’t well received by even the company’s enterprise customers who found the $700 USD price tag a bit too steep.
The new BlackBerry devices are rumored to be code-named Rome and the Hamburg and will be pushing for a sub-$500 price off-contract. It’ll be marketed as the only truly secure Android devices.
Source: The Verge