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For some time now come rumors about the launch of a ‘smartphone’ BlackBerry with Android operating system. But so far this news had not been taken very seriously, the site ‘AndroidHeadlines’ revealed images that will be the first BlackBerry with Android. The BlackBerry Venice should be released in November by the operator AT &. T in the United States and should rely on the operating system Android 5.0.1 Lollipop

In addition to the images that emerged from Venice, the site reveals still the ‘smartphone’ BlackBerry Passport – the latest equipment launched by the manufacturer -. with version 5.1 of Android, which shows that the BlackBerry may be looking for alternatives to their own operating system

Returning to Venice, this model should have the characteristic QWERTY keyboard – almost a ‘trademark’ of the Canadian manufacturer in this type of devices – that will run slide type, that is, will be hidden in the body of the machine and can be slid the keys from being revealed . The new screen BlackBerry will have 5.4 inches, almost the same size as the iPhone 6 Plus (5.5 inches), 3 gigabytes of RAM, chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and a fantastic rear camera of 18 megapixels and the front of with 5 megapixels.

Canadian manufacturer reduces losses
The Canadian company that five years ago lived glory days, with 50% field of smartphones in the corporate market segment It has been completely overtaken by competitors Apple, Samsung, LG and others. Since then, the company’s value dropped from 83 billion dollars to 5 billion dollars. Year after year one that was already one of the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturers amounted to huge losses.

Even so, company executives did not cross your arms and the BlackBerry could drastically reduce its operating losses in the first quarter tax this year – compared to the same period last year. Despite the drop in turnover, revenues in the software segment more than doubled and actions valued 8.5% on the day the results were presented (June 26).

In the first quarter tax, the BlackBerry achieved revenues of 658 million and losses of 28 million, figures that in both cases were below analysts’ forecasts.

The BlackBerry’s business restructuring strategy is to maintain the bet the hardware, but the business focus on enterprise solutions and services. These business areas (especially licensing and services) in the reporting period grew 150% to $ 137 million. Figures released by the company also show that services accounted for 38% of BlackBerry business in the quarter, while the software licensing and 21% weighed technology. During the period the company managed 2,600 new contracts with corporate customers, who come from different mobile operating systems. The hardware accounted for 40% of the business, with 1.1 million devices sold, at an average price of $ 240.

Overall, the company’s restructuring strategy begins to bear fruit slower than expected , counting already with an important contribution of the software. “Our performance shows that we are on track to achieve important milestones,” said the president of the Canadian company, John Chen, leaving a guarantee: “We are focused on our growth plan to return to