Future BlackBerry Android Smartphone Will Be Cheaper

Previously
this year BlackBerry decided to launch  its first ever Android-powered smartphone, making
the foreseeable swing over to Google’s mobile platform in a last ditch effort
to plug the losses of its hardware business. As predicted by several pundits, BlackBerry
Priv appears to be performing better than its BlackBerry 10 OS powered
counterparts did last year and the company makes it clear that it’s not done
yet, which means more are yet to come. Not only will it release another
Android-powered handset, but the imminent device will be much lesser in
cost price than the Priv.

The
Priv is priced right in the flagship territory, around $699 for an unlocked
model, though there are deals to be had at retailers which can knock down the
price a bit. It does have the requirement to match but customers possibly will
not want to spend so much money on a device that BlackBerry has never done
before, as far as the operating system goes.

Throughout
its latest periodical earnings account BlackBerry revealed that more than
700,000 units of the Priv have been sold during the sector and that it’s going
to release the handset in 31 added markets over the next few months.

In a
recent interview with Bloomberg the
company CEO John Chen was asked about BlackBerry’s prospect hardware plans and
if Android would figure in them. Chen mentioned that a new handset is in the pipeline which is going
to be running Android, and also said that it’s going to be priced much more delightfully
as contrasting to the Priv, so we’re almost certainly looking at a mid-range
handset.