Rumor: BlackBerry with Android and physical keyboard gets Snapdragon 808-soc

The upcoming BlackBerry slider with a physical keyboard and possibly Android runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808-soc and has a 5.4 “screen with a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels. That is what a BlackBerry fan site claims.

The device should appear on the market in November, reports N44b, a site that often appeared to have correct information from unannounced BlackBerrys. Although a display with a diagonal of 5.4 “in Android devices has not yet occurred, Japan Display does have such a screen in its range. That screen has the aforementioned resolution of 2560×1440 pixels.

The smartphone, codenamed Venice, has a physical keyboard that slides out from under the screen in addition to a large touchscreen. This happens in portrait mode, as was the case with the Torch 9800 in the past.

The Venice would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808, one of the most recent socs from the processor designer. It is a hexacore, with two Cortex A57 cores and four Cortex A53 cores, combined with an Adreno 418 GPU. This makes it a much more recent soc than the old MSM8960 from the recently released Leap or the Snapdragon 801 from the Passport.

BlackBerry already showed the device a few months ago, but did not mention any details of the phone. According to a recent rumor, the smartphone with a physical keyboard would run Android, because BlackBerry wants to demonstrate with the device that its services run just as well on another operating system as on its own BlackBerry 10.