{"id":4861,"date":"2015-09-28T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T10:03:33","slug":"blackberry-confirm-their-first-android-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/blackberry-confirm-their-first-android-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry confirm their first Android phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of rumours, Blackberry has finally announced their first Android device.<\/p>\n<p>In their latest earnings reports, Blackberry CEO John Chen confirmed plans to launch the Blackberry Priv. According to Chen, the name reflects Blackberry\u2019s \u201d\u02dccore mission of protecting our customers\u2019 privacy\u2019 and will combine \u201d\u02dcthe best of BlackBerry security and productivity with the expansive mobile application ecosystem available on the Android platform\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The web has been rife with Blackberry\/Android rumours for a while, with pictures and videos of a device called the Blackberry Venice the most prominent. The \u201d\u02dcVenice\u2019 is actually the Priv: it looks similar to the Passport and features Blackberry\u2019s trademark slideout keyboard.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJ6Yvp7-z3E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Early videos show the Priv running Android 5.1 Lollipop, although it\u2019s likely that the Priv will support Android 6.0 Marshmallow by the time it\u2019s released. Other features include an SD card, a camera and a 5.6-inch display.<\/p>\n<p>The Priv doesn\u2019t have a release date yet, but it could signal a turnaround in Blackberry\u2019s fortunes after many users switched to Android and iOS due to the limited app ecosystem of BB10. The company will continue to manufacture devices using their own OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of rumours, Blackberry has finally announced their first Android device. In their latest earnings reports, Blackberry CEO John Chen confirmed plans to launch the Blackberry Priv. According to Chen, the name reflects Blackberry\u2019s \u201d\u02dccore mission of protecting our customers\u2019 privacy\u2019 and will combine \u201d\u02dcthe best of BlackBerry security &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1554,1552],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4862,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions\/4862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}