BlackBerry 10 productivity apps could feature on Android-powered BlackBerry Venice

For an Android site, we’re talking about BlackBerry a lot lately and strangely, we’re excited about it. The news all centres around the Android-powered BlackBerry Venice, a rumoured device that will marry BlackBerry’s hardware design philosophy with Android’s operating system. But from the sounds of it, not everything is going to be just Android – a leak by @evleaks today suggests that the BlackBerry Venice will have the benefit of BlackBerry 10 productivity apps which will help manage email, contacts, calendar and social media accounts. Check out what looks like promo video describing this functionality:

For those wondering about how Android is going to look like on the device, @evleaks tweeted a list of BlackBerry app names earlier that suggests “this is no stock Android handset” – while this is no real indication as to how it will run, we can be relatively sure that BlackBerry will have had their fingers in every facet of the BlackBerry Venice. Of course, BlackBerry has not even remotely confirmed the device’s existence though the mounting evidence is decidedly hard to ignore.

What do you think about the Android-powered BlackBerry Venice? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

Source: Twitter (1), (2) via Phone Arena