BlackBerry makes tablets and smartphones with a large screen and keyboard

BlackBerry is working on its second tablet. This has been confirmed by director John Chen. In addition, the manufacturer is developing a smartphone with a large screen and a physical keyboard. It is presumably a retractable ram plank.

If BlackBerry releases a tablet, it will be its second. In 2011, what was then RIM released the PlayBook, a 7″ tablet with an operating system that was the predecessor of the current BlackBerry 10. Chen did not confirm that the manufacturer will release a tablet, but said that BlackBerry is working on it. doubt about it, we are working on it,” said the BlackBerry director at an MIT Enterprise Forum in Hong Kong, China video of the interview at the event is online.

In addition, Chen said that BlackBerry is working on a smartphone with a large screen and a physical keyboard, discovered BlackBerryOS.com. According to the director, BlackBerry wants to combine those elements without it becoming clumsy to use and users not being able to put it in their pocket. One of the solutions that the manufacturer has used more often is a slide-out keyboard, as in BlackBerry’s former Torch series.

BlackBerry currently has several models in its lineup with a physical keyboard, but the largest model is the Passport with a 4.5″ screen with a 1:1 aspect ratio. BlackBerry probably wants to cater to people who want a physical keyboard and a want to have a large screen, without the device being as wide as the Passport, but the manufacturer does not have such a device at the moment.