For the past two years, BlackBerry has enlisted the considerable talents of Porsche Design to develop a rather pricey special edition handset, and it’s happening again with the upcoming P’9983.
The Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9983 features a larger, 3.5-inch touchscreen with a dual-core 1.7Ghz processor and 3GB RAM, plus 64GB of internal storage. A full QWERTY keyboard is included, but is said to not have capacitive touch buttons like the upcoming Passport phablet.
N4BB pegs the launch in late Q3 this year, with a price point likely to come in around $2000 (R21,500). That’s not a small chunk of change for a BlackBerry, even with Porsche’s backing thrown in, so we may only see limited numbers landing in SA.
BlackBerry reportedly sees this as a device for “the expectations and purchase behaviours of the affluent and wealthy,” so if that’s you, boy does the company have a smartphone for you this year.
Source: N4BB