In addition to the BlackBerry Mercury with a QWERTY-keyboard, which will debut in late February, is preparing to enter another smartphone BlackBerry brand.
According to the publication, the new smartphone BlackBerry BBC100-1 will issue a joint venture between PT BB Merah Putih, has signed a license agreement with the Canadian company BlackBerry last fall. It will be based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 SoC platform, which includes a quad-core processor clocked at 1.4 GHz and a graphics controller Adreno 308. The memory volume is 4 GB and the capacity of the built-in storage - 32 GB. Also, the new smartphone will be equipped with 5.5-inch HD-display, 13-megapixel rear and 8-megapixel front cameras. He will receive the support of two SIM-cards and will be running the Android operating system. Autonomous work of the new BlackBerry smartphone will provide the battery with 3000 mAh.
When the BlackBerry BBC100-1 will be presented officially, it is still unknown. It reported only that it will be available in India, Indonesia and Philippines.
As for BlackBerry Mercury, it will be presented at a special event TCL, which will take place on February 25 in Barcelona at the exhibition MWC 2017.