The switch to Android platform will be an acknowledgment that even its renewed line of equipment has failed the objective to recover popularity together users, adiantaram sources cited by the news agency.
The Canadian company has struggled with the discrediting of its software platform, after successfully master particularly among business users.
The market share of BlackBerry 10 is now less than 1% and the company’s CEO had already revolted against the domain of other operating systems that are claimed to stifle competition. Now the strategy seems to be “if you can not beat them join them”.
Also in March, the MWC in Barcelona, the BlackBerry had submitted a new device, the BlackBerry Leap that will reach the market during 2015 and that is the spiritual successor to the BlackBerry Torch, showing that the company is determined to be inspired by the past to try to win new users.
It is unclear whether the use of the Android operating system may spell the end of BB10, the system developed by the company, or equip only some of the brand terminals.
Reuters said that the BlackBerry can use a new Android smartphone in slide format to be announced in autumn, combining a touch screen with the “traditional” keyboard that has remained as a distinctive feature of brand.
In recent months the Canadian company has done some ads that show an attempt to bridge the gap with the most popular operating systems, but at the same time made cuts in smartphone development unit, reducing the number of employees to 6.225 million in February when in 2011 the number of people involved in this unit was more than 17,500.
When the latest results released the BlackBerry also warned that more cuts were planned, but without advance numbers.
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