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Report: BlackBerry building 64-bit octocore smartphone

According to a few sources, BlackBerry is working on a "killer" smartphone with high-end specs. Unfortunately, it likely won't see the light of day until the Q2 2015.

The device will feature the extremely efficient and powerful 20nm Snapdragon MSM8994 chipset, which uses a 64-bit architecture and has eight CPU cores and can be clocked up to 2.5GHz.



Additionally, the device can have up to 4GB of LPDDR3 1600MHz RAM, an Adreno 430 GPU and OpenGL ES3.0, direct x11.1, OpenCL1.2.

While those specs would blow any current machine out of the water by a long shot, by Q2 2015, it is expected that many high-end phone will boast such specs, meaning BlackBerry will once again be playing catch-up.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 10 Feb 2014 23:00

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• 5 comments

• stuntman_

  I really wish they would just rollover and die already
  

  
  
  
  

  11.2.2014 06:09 #1

• biglo30

  Damn they are planing a device for next year? Whats their focus on this year.
  

  
  

  11.2.2014 08:23 #2

• A5J4DX

  The only killer thing that'll happen is BlackBerry's death :)
  

  11.2.2014 17:58 #3

• kfir1

  DIE ALREADY ....DAMN!!

  17.2.2014 08:10 #4

• kutulu1

  Woohoo! Keep up the fight. Your Z10 is a great phone. Love it.

  17.2.2014 21:31 #5