Blackberry has been awful quiet about releasing new smartphones since the Z30 but we may have finally caught our first glimpse of its next entry, "Windermere."
New pictures of Windermere have surfaced on the tech blog N4BB and to be honest the smartphone is surprisingly short.
No that's has not been cropped or anything. That is really the phone from the body itself to the Instagram square-shaped screen. Windermere, or the "Q30" as it has been unofficially codenamed, is BlackBerry's most boxy shaped handset yet.
While it shares a similar shape to some of Nokia's stouter handsets, the Q30 has less screen real estate than just about every smartphone in existence. It's also the first BlackBerry to have the barest of essentials for its QWERTY keyboard, which has been squished from four rows of physical keys to just three.
Beauty is only skin deep
Despite the unorthodox shape and height of this potential BlackBerry handset, Windermere might be the companies most innovative handset yet.
As we reported previously the handset features a physical keyboard that's also capacitive, allowing users to use as a touchscreen surface.
The phone also manages to find enough room to squeeze in a screen that bigger than four inches – the exact size is still unknown – with a 1440 by 1440 Full HD resolution.
Underneath the impish frame there's also a Quad-core Snapdragon MSM8974 processor backed by an Adreno 330 GPU and 3GB of RAM. Additionally, the battery supposedly has a healthy 3450 mAh charge that should be good for all day use.
All in all, admirable specs for such an odd looking phone, but we'll have to wait for the official announcement before we pin this phone as the real Q30.
Last we heard BlackBerry saved the Q30 from the chopping block along with the Z50, but ultimately the fate of both phones might be decided by the company's mysterious "large partner."
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