BlackBerry signed a new partnership with Foxconn back in December that saw the former hand over design and manufacture of BlackBerry devices for emerging markets to the latter. Today, at a smaller press event, it unveiled the first product to emerge from this partnership, the BlackBerry Z3. Codenamed Jakarta during development, it is headed to Indonesia and is customized with […]
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BlackBerry Z3 Jakarta image and specifications revealed?
BlackBerry and Foxconn are expected to reveal the first device borne of their new partnership at MWC 2014. Codenamed Jakarta, details about the device have so far been slim but that looks to have changed today with both leaked renders and specifications. The images reveal a look different from the styling we have seen with other BlackBerry 10 devices. They […]
BlackBerry Jakarta to make debut at MWC 2014
BlackBerry will unveil its first new devices since the BlackBerry Z30 at MWC 2014. The new devices will be the first to be a result of its new partnership with Foxconn (a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.). Confirmation was made by none other than Hon Hai’s chairman, Terry Gou. “We are working with them to design a new […]
No physical keyboard for Foxconn-designed BlackBerry Jakarta smartphone?
Following the announcement that BlackBerry was teaming up with Foxconn to develop and manufacture budget-level BlackBerry smartphones for the next five years (if not more), the company cancelled the entry-level devices codenamed Cafe and Kopi that it was developing in-house for 2014. Details are now emerging about the first BlackBerry smartphone that Foxconn will launch instead in emerging markets such […]