BlackBerry might be prepping a hybrid touchscreen smartphone with a hidable keypad

Back when Joch Chen initally hinted that the company will be putting emphasis on top-end QWERTY-toting smarpthones in the future (as enterprise purportedly favored these over all-touscreen ones), little did we suspect that the unorthodox and squareish BlackBerry Passport is in the pipeline. Well, the latter is already a fact, but it seems that BlackBerry might be prepping something even more curious and compelling.



One of the more recent patent applications that BlackBerry has filed with the USPTO describes a device, codenamed “Visa” or “Victoria”, which will have both a large touchscreen ...