BlackBerry Venice comes with a capacitive touchpad embedded under the keyboard for scrolling.
Raghavendra M
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After a series of image leaks, here comes a video that shows Venice, an Android OS based smartphone that BlackBerry is planning to launch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2-bR5zFbzw
This is the first ever Android OS based phone being made by BlackBerry after the company failed to make it big with its own proprietary operating system based mobile phones.
Bell Mobility dealer Baka Mobile published the video that shows the Venice, which runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, and a few stock android features such as Google Now, Android’s personal assistant software.
Exclusive: #blackberry Venice shown off in quick look video http://t.co/VT3GkOIMaz
— Android Authority (@AndroidAuth) September 18, 2015
This device comes with a capacitive touchpad embedded under the physical keyboard, which lets key buttons to be used for scrolling. This feature was earlier found in BlackBerry Passport.
Apart from this video, a few more clear images are also leaked on social media. Evan Blass (@evleaks) posted a few latest images of the phone on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/633886910570721280/photo/1
https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/634113167409344512/photo/1
While BlackBerry is trying to be in the mainstream by adopting the popular Android mobile operating system, it is also coming with its signature keypad to cater to its fan base.