BlackBerry Venice with Android OS tipped to launch on AT&T

03 July, 2015

According to @evleaks, the BlackBerry Venice slider with Android on board will launch on AT&T Wireless in the United States. The device is rumored to arrive in November with Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 on board.

The Android-powered BlackBerry Venice slider is AT&T-bound.
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) July 2, 2015

Along with that, @evleaks posted an alleged press image of a handset that looks a lot like BlackBerry Passport, running Android. The latter’s navigation keys are clearly visible in the render.

Also, /this/ pic.twitter.com/DL9BzAMEC4
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) July 3, 2015

BlackBerry phone with Android has been in in the rumor mill for a while now. We’ll keep an eye out for more details on the company’s plans going forward.

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Reader comments

AnonD-414538
08 Jul 2015
Nnv

Firstly Handsets are just a small part of Blackberries business, secondly there are still lots of people that want handsets with physical keyboards. Personally I use a blackberry because of the fantastic OS and the best touch keyboard I have come acr...

Anonymous
06 Jul 2015
7XX

And all this time I thought their claims of John Chen being big and successful in turning around failing companies into profitability hold true. All pressure is on him now, I can't imagine how much. I won't be surprised if he experiences heart condit...

AJC
04 Jul 2015
Nx9

The problem is not that BB is (presumably) releasing devices running Android - that's something they should have figured out years ago - but that they still believe that the classic BB phone design and physical keyboard is desirable by any significan...