Like Microsoft, BlackBerry has been struggling in the face of increasingly intense competition in the smartphone market in recent years. After unsuccessfully attempting to reverse its decline by adding Android app support to its BB10 operating system, it seems BlackBerry will ditch its own OS completely on its next flagship phone, in favor of Google's offering.
Known by its development codename, 'Venice', the new BlackBerry handset was pictured clearly for the first time last month, in a render revealed by semi-retired leaker Evan Blass, better known as @evleaks - and today, he shared another image of the device on Twitter.
Evan also said that the handset will be sold on all four of America's top carriers - AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint - with a release planned for November.
Curiously, one of the images he shared today appears to indicate that the Venice will ship with Android 5.x Lollipop onboard, rather than the newer Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which will officially launch before the end of next month. However, it seems likely that this is simply 'old' artwork using placeholder images, and that the device will actually go on sale with Marshmallow.
That's not certain, of course - and indeed, there's plenty we still don't know for sure about the new device. But while we wait to find out more about it, it seems fair to say that BlackBerry's new Android flagship is shaping up rather nicely.
Blackberry venice leaked image
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