Struggling Blackberry's new Blackberry Z30 smartphone is now available online from Verizon IT website eweek.com reported Wednesday.
"It is a truly exciting time in our journey toward winning the enterprise segment," Dr. Injong Rhee, senior vice president and head of Samsung's B2B R&D Group, IT and Mobile Division told eweek.com. "With Samsung Knox, for the very first time, enterprise IT can deploy Android devices, which are loved by consumers, for enterprise usage, ensuring highest levels of platform security and information protection. (The partner program is a win-win.)"
The news is the latest development since Blackberry did not meet sales estimates made by analysts by roughly one million units. This resulted in the company announcing it would be willing to be sold or create new business partnerships. The company has since gone private after a potential deal with Fairfax Holdings did not work out last month.
The new product has a 5-inch touch screen and is based on a newer version of the Blackberry 10 operating system Bloomberg reported. It also has a 1.7 gigahertz processor, stereo speakers that improve the quality of conversations and the largest battery ever built into a BlackBerry. The Z30's counterpart, the Blackberry z10 has a 4.2- inch touch screen which is similar to handsets on the iPhone.
The has one big customer in The United States Department of Defense, which has bought half a million Blackberry devices, and is also looking at iOS and Android smartphone options. However, Blackberry devices are only compatible with the department's authority to operate guidelines.
"DOD's mobility strategy and commercial mobile device implementation plan includes reliance on multiple vendors to support its mobile communications needs," Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, Pentagon spokesperson told Defense One. "The mobile-security management system is in the early stages of development. (It will undergo a limited pilot, or reach) 'initial operating capacity'" by Dec. 31."
