BlackBerry has announced that it will be abandoning its BB10 operating system in favour of Android, for this year's devices at least.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has confirmed at a CES interview in Las Vegas that the company will release two new products in 2016, both of which will run Android OS.
So while BlackBerry will stay afloat it means the operating system that die-hard fans support appears to be getting left on the shelf. The physical keyboard of BlackBerry should largely remain, giving the company a unique selling point over the already establish Android competition of Samsung, HTC, Huawei, LG and the rest.
On the matter of the BlackBerry Priv reception so far Chen says: "So far, so good. I'm taking a cautiously optimistic view".
Chen pointed out the Priv started small but will roll out to 31 countries and the price should drop with time. This makes sense as BlackBerry has already said 2016 is its make or break year.
While BlackBerry will continue to offer the
BlackBerry Classic with the BB10 operating system, new phones won't receive it. This is not a total abandoning of the OS, so there's hope for BB10 fans yet.
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