The BlackBerry Hamburg is apparently made by Alcatel for BlackBerry and it shares similar specifications to the Alcatel Idol 4.
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After the Hamburg, the next device to come out from BlackBerry is likely the BlackBerry Rome. It’s worth noting that Rome is the upcoming BlackBerry smartphone that’s expected to come with a physical keyboard.
While we’ve heard much of it before through benchmark listings, it did reveal some stuff that the benchmark doesn’t list. Nevertheless, it will run on 3GB of RAM and Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. While there are no other details about the handsets now, these devices will be really important in deciding the future of the company’s smartphone business.
According to a recent listing on Geekbench, a new BlackBerry Android smartphone code-named “Rome” is in the works.
Half a decade ago, BlackBerry smartphones were starting to lose their shine a little. “Our customers depend on the BB10 platform and they are the ones that drive our roadmap”, he said adding that BlackBerry was committed to “maintaining” BB10 software and “advancing it to be even more secure and provide even greater productivity”. BlackBerry Hamburg represents the first novelty from the Canadian company since their latest BlackBerry Priv. The FCC documents also attest that TCL is responsible for manufacturing the BlackBerry Hamburg (TCL owns Alcatel), but that was already expected, as we know a thing or two about the Hamburg from previous rumors/leaks, i.e.it’s basically an Alcatel Idol 4 re-branded. At this time this information – as it is with all information above save the FCC bit – is unofficial. Also, according to an earlier GFXBench benchmark test, the BlackBerry Hamburg has basically the same specs as the Idol 4, give or take, except for the chipset.
BlackBerry earlier offered itself for sale before attempting a final life saving approach with the BlackBerry Priv, the company’s first Android powered phone.
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This was an upper mid range device based around capable hardware, but as with former BlackBerry flagship devices it was expensive when released.
