BlackBerry had already confirmed that they will be giving more details of the BlackBerry Mercury at MWC 2017, but it looks like there might just be something more.
According to a recent leak from tipster @rquandt, BlackBerry seems to be working on a budget BlackBerry phone – codenamed the BBC100-1 – that features lower specs than we’d usually expect from a BlackBerry device. The leak suggests it has a 5.5-inch display with 720p resolution, so it might not be too pricey. It also features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 chipset – that’s a little used chip we’ve previously seen in the Xiaomi Redmi 4A – as well as 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. There’s also a 3,000mAh battery, dual-SIM support, an 8MP selfie camera and the rear has a 13MP shooter.
This seems to be the first phone from BlackBerry’s joint BB Merah Putih venture, which is a software licensing strategy that brings a number of Indonesian companies together to work on new software and services, so this looks like a phone that will be exclusive to emerging markets.
We might see this device to be announced at MWC 2017, which will take place at the end of February.
