The BlackBerry PRIV was just the beginning. BlackBerry is working on three Android handsets for 2016/17...
Changes are AFOOT in camp Blackberry. The company, post BlackBerry DTEK60, will no longer design and build its own phones. That honour will now reside with an OEM. This switch will apparently help BlackBerry reduce some cost associated with R&D for hardware and allow it to better focus on its software play, a play the company hopes will generate new revenues in 2017.
There will be three Android-powered BlackBerry handsets released in 2016, and one inside Q1 2017 – but more on that later.
The first BlackBerry Android phone is out of the blocks for 2016 was the DTEK50. Both the DTEK50 and DTEK60 have now officially been given a price cut in the UK, US, Canada and mainland Europe. The reduced price of the DTEK50 brings it down to $259 in the US (down from $299) and £255 in the UK (a price cut of £20). The DTEK60 has been reduced from $499 in the US to $449 and has taken a £33 cut in the UK down to £442.
Check out our BlackBerry DTEK50 Review for the full breakdown on that particular handset
Also: if you're a BlackBerry purist you can now pick up the BlackBerry Passport for just £309.
The BlackBerry DTEK50 comes with a 5.2-inch 1080p touchscreen, a 13MP rear camera with phase detection autofocus and LED flash, an 8 MP selfie shooter, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 617 SoC, 3GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, and a 2,610 mAh battery. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
BlackBerry says the DTEK50 is the world’s most secure phone. It also confirmed that it will be issuing monthly security updates to the phone in order to keep it this way.
So what makes the DTEK50 so secure? A few things, actually:
- Rapid Security Patching: BlackBerry has a record of being the quickest to deliver security patches, setting the bar in incident response and patch management to protect your device from malicious threats.
- DTEK™ by BlackBerry App: Enables users to automatically monitor their OS and apps to know when their privacy could be at risk and to take action to improve it. The DTEK app also tracks applications and notifies you when someone is: taking pictures or videos without your knowledge, turning your microphone on, sending a text message, or accessing your contacts or location.
- Hardware Root of Trust: BlackBerry’s manufacturing process uses a proprietary technique that adds security from the start, allowing for the tracking, verification and provisioning of DTEK50.
- Secure Boot Process: Starting with the root of trust, each stage of DTEK50’s secure boot chain must first verify that the next component is fully intact before proceeding, ensuring your device has not been tampered with since the last restart.
- Android OS hardening: BlackBerry provides additional security patches, improved random number, address space generation and certificate pinning to make it more difficult for attackers to target a device by scrambling application/system memory.
- FIPS 140-2 Compliant Full Disk Encryption: Protects your private information, like pictures or bank information, from being stolen if you were to lose your phone.
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