A handset codenamed the BlackBerry "Ontario" was discovered at the
Geekbench benchmark site. This could be the high-end device that CEO
John Chen said that BlackBerry itself was developing for the U.S.
market. The unannounced model is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 800
processor running at 2.15GHz. No released BlackBerry handset is powered
by a quad-core CPU. The device also has 2GB of RAM and has BlackBerry
10.3.0.92 installed.The beleaguered Canadian handset manufacturer has inked a deal with contract manufacturer Foxconn. The latter will design, manufacture, and warehouse low-end BlackBerry models over a period of five years. BlackBerry will provide the software for the new phones.
Early last month, Chen said that most of BlackBerry's new models would come with a physical QWERTY, something that has been linked to BlackBerry going back to its early days. The new high-end model is expected to feature a physical QWERTY, which should make most BlackBerry faithful happy. We could see this model appear in the second half of the year.
