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BlackBerry used to rule the smartphone infinite, only then the iPhone came out. BlackBerry execs deemed the iPhone a "toy" and a "fad," only that fad eventually drove the company to revamp its product lineup. It was too late, though. BlackBerry volition probably never regain the throne, but it'due south not done with smartphones. It's making a get of things with Android, and it looks like a new full-touch-screen BlackBerry Android phone is on the manner. A posting from serial leaker Evan Blass has revealed the BlackBerry Motility.

BlackBerry (formerly known equally RIM) used to have its ain operating arrangement called BlackBerry OS. Well, BB OS technically withal exists, only the company is no longer releasing new phones that run it. BlackBerry made a valiant effort to save its platform by opening an app store and devising methods of emulating Android apps, merely it was all too little, besides late.

In 2022, BlackBerry launched the Priv, its first Android phone. That's actually the merely Android phone BlackBerry itself has ever built. After the Priv's lackluster sales, it partnered with established device maker TCL, which has gotten some attending for its upkeep-minded Alcatel brand. The first few BlackBerry devices from this union were merely re-badged Alcatel devices branded equally "BlackBerry DTEK," simply the KEYone from earlier this yr was all BlackBerry. That telephone even had the iconic Blackberry keyboard, which tempted some BlackBerry OS stalwarts to make the switch to Android.

The newly leaked telephone goes back to the all-screen DTEK-style design without a physical keyboard. This phone was previously rumored as the "Krypton," merely the final device will allegedly be called the "Motion." BlackBerry'south lawmaking names are always improve than the retail branding—the KEYone was "Mercury" and the Priv was "Venice."

The new prototype is simply a render, but it looks official, and Blass is a reputable source for leaks. The Motion seems like quite the apartment black slab here. The right border of the phone has a book rocker, ability button, and customary Blackberry shortcut key. There's also what appears to be a physical home button in the enormous bezel nether the display. It definitely doesn't fit with the trend of minimizing bezel on modernistic smartphones. Information technology does at to the lowest degree have a three.5mm headphone jack, which more and more phones are dropping.

Nosotros don't yet know when the Move (if indeed that's the name) will exist released. A few big mobile tradeshows are happening early in 2022, and then possibly TCL and BlackBerry volition wait until after the holiday blitz to officially reveal this phone.