Hot on the heels of the release of the Priv, images of a second Android powered BlackBerry device have turned up.
Crackberry has the scoop on the device, which is codename "Vienna", and it's quite different to the Priv. For a start, the physical keyboard is not just still present, but now omnipresent too as it no longer slides away.
In another departure from current Android trends, the "Back", "Home" and "Recent" buttons at the bottom of the screen will be actual hardware buttons rather than on-screen. The keyboard is very reminiscent of 'classic' Blackberry phones.
Even more Android
The switch to Android came off the back of poor sales of phones running the company's own Blackberry 10 operating system.
While technically impressive, what really killed it was being unable to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of needing more users to encourage developers to build more apps for the platform, and needing more apps to encourage people to actually buy it.
So it appears then that the Priv wasn't just a one-off – which might be a good thing as we thought it was pretty good, awarding it four stars.
Read our review of the BlackBerry Priv here
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Original source: BlackBerry Priv follow up pictured in first leak of new Android phone.
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