New Delhi: BlackBerry will launch four new smartphones this year, one of them featuring a dual-curved screen akin to Samsung Galaxy S6-Edge, which was launched at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
While announcing its plans for the upcoming smartphones, the company said that one of them will be a high-end smartphone with "a dual-curve all touch display" with a keyboard behind a slide.
"We don't have a code name for it but I call it The Slide," BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen told media in Barcelona. "It will come some time this year," he added without giving a specific date.
BlackBerry, once a must-have device for business executives and government officials because of its pioneering secure email service, has haemorrhaged market share to Apple's iPhone and rivals running on Google's Android software.
As it continues its "philosophical" shift to making software, BlackBerry will also bring a new package of cross-platform applications in the next year.
The struggling company unveiled its BlackBerry Leap phone at the Barcelona event. The "low-to-mid" market phone will go on sale in Europe in April. Three more phones will follow.
CEO John Chen says that since he took over a year and a half ago BlackBerry is now "committed to making software as a business. That statement carries a lot."
Blackberry will roll out "BlackBerry Experience," a set of three software packages focusing on security and communications for business and government customers over the next year.
Chen says BlackBerry is "stabilizing" financially, without presenting figures.
(With inputs from agencies)
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