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Verizon will also carry BlackBerry Priv

With this impressive number of partners and companies now deploying Android for Work, Google has still a mountain to climb before it matches up to the Apple iOS.

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With Android powering the smartphones, BlackBerry has a huge task at hand to ensure that this complex and rapidly changing open source mobile OS continues to provide the desired protection and privacy.

The company said that combining the best of BlackBerry’s productivity, security and privacy features with the wide world of Google Play store apps, PRIV is the epitome of form and function.

BlackBerry has finally made a solid move to attempt a financial turnaround by launching its first Android-powered smartphone called BlackBerry Priv, but a few experts feel that the effort may have come five years too late. If it’s a corporate device, IT can manage when updates are released to the PRIV to prevent incompatibility problems with corporate software.

The smartphone’s “wow” factor, as Louks dubs it, is actually a throwback – a slide out physical keyboard. In addition, the device’s physical keyboard may not be enough to convince consumers to buy the smartphone because the on-screen keyboard is much easier to use.

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Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry is pinning its hopes of gaining traction once more in the market on its newest Android-based device, BlackBerry Priv. While the new smartphone from BlackBerry is widely lauded for its high-end specs and hardware, a few critics are somewhat taciturn about its hefty price tag. Giving you the ability to use it like a trackpad, giving you another way to navigate around the BlackBerry Priv. You can also set up quick shortcuts with the keyboard and program your most used apps to a key of your desire. The phone has an expandable SD card slot, supporting up to 2TB of additional storage. In fact, the Priv is likely to be available for purchase beginning this weekend in at least three countries: Canada, United States and the United Kingdom.

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