BlackBerry may launch its second high-end Android smartphone in 2016, The Canadian mobile technology firm reported a nearly 12% jump in revenue in its latest quarter. Now, the company CEO John Chen has hinted that it may launch another Android smartphone next year which will be targeted at the mid-range segment.
According to a report in softpedia.com, Chen said if BlackBerry Priv -- the first BlackBerry smartphone powered by Android -- does better, "we will focus on the high-end, probably closer to mid-range, coming out in 2016."
In an interview with Bloomberg, Chen elaborated when asked about plans for another Android phone, "Depends on the Priv. If the Priv is well received in the market and looks like it is. There's a good chance [...], we will still focus on the high-end probably closer to mid-range coming out in 2016."
Blackberry may not have revealed any clear plans for a second Android phone but a new BlackBerry smartphone was in benchmark listings last month tipping that the company may be testing use of Samsung's Exynos chips in its devices. The BlackBerry smartphone codenamed STV100-1 was seen in GFXBench listings with Samsung's octa-core Exynos 7420 processor clocked at 2.1GHz. BlackBerry's purported second Android smartphone, believed to be codenamed "Vienna", was leaked in images last month.
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