BlackBerry ‘Venice’ allegedly coming to the Big Four U.S. carriers in November

August 19, 2015

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BlackBerry's upcoming Android-powered phone, codename Venice, is starting to unofficial make appearances on a frequent basis. Alleged images of the device, including a new one showing the curved display and physical keyboard (seen above), have been appearing online since early July. Between Tuesday night and today, Evan Blass has shared an abundance of information regarding BlackBerry's product that is tasked with turning around the company's misfortunes.

Customers of the four largest carriers in the United States will be happy to know that Venice is expected to available this November from Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. Rather than partnering with a single carrier to keep the device exclusive, BlackBerry would be going for mass availability by allowing the major carriers to sell Venice.

Blass also shared what looks to be a promotional image highlighting select software features from Venice. BlackBerry will include Content Transfer, a method to bring files from one device to Venice. Based on the description, Content Transfer will move values with Google Drive. BlackBerry Hub will be the place for users to see messages, emails, and notifications from apps and services to be housed in a single place. And, along with Chromecast support, Venice will ship with at least Android 5.0 Lollipop.

And here are two promotional teasers that Blass obtained:

Eye candy. pic.twitter.com/GtJwOfOus8

— Evan Blass (@evleaks) August 19, 2015

.@halfnibble More of an “Android Maya job,” innit? pic.twitter.com/4Fhll0Bfv0

— Evan Blass (@evleaks) August 19, 2015

Is anyone else getting excited to see what BlackBerry is going to do with Android?

Source: Evan Blass (Twitter)

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Born and raised in New Jersey, Justin is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University where he studied marketing with a focus on digital marketing. He's very talkative and enjoys discussing anything from technology and sports to video games and television. As for Justin's current device rotation, he carries around the Google Pixel and Nexus 9. In the rare case that his phone or tablet is not in his hand, he is either flicking through cards on his Moto 360 (2015) or typing away on the Microsoft Surface Book. Justin is patiently waiting for the day that Google replicates the Galaxy Nexus with modern day specifications.

2 comments

xBURK says:

August 20, 2015 at 12:07 AM

As long as the hub is as good as BlackBerry BB10 right now, then yes.

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1. calden74 says:
  
  August 23, 2015 at 3:29 AM
  
  Even if it’s not, I mean come on, have you seen the specs, curved 2k display, slide out keyboard, SD Card Reader, removable battery, ample CPU and memory. I’m so sick of companies removing everything that I frankly depend on. Though I have a BlackBerry Passport from absolutely adore it, especially the BlackBerry Hub, I’m excited about this Android version as well. I finally have a worthy private phone, I will of course still continue to use my Passport for work as frankly, nothing beats it.
  
  My company gave me an option this last January, an iPhone or the Passport of course the bulk of the people chose the iPhone but a few of us, particularly in the IT and programming department chose the Passport, fast forward 6 months later and now the bulk of our employees use the Passport. People quickly found out that the iPhone didn’t quite make a decent work phone, at least no where as good as the Passport. I’m hoping this new one will finally change more people’s mind.
  
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