Blackberry is name that has been heard on the grapevine quite a lot the last few weeks, due to a rumoured Android-powered Blackberry handset that is supposedly currently in development. Interestingly, Blackberry has made the news again today, but for a decidedly different reason - Blackberry and Google have officially joined forces to make Android devices business secure, marrying Google’s Android Lollipop and Blackberry’s BES12. As Blackberry puts it:
“New features are now available through Android and BES12 that enable organizations to further secure enterprise and personal data on Android devices, set new levels of hardware based encryption, and ensure tight integration with Google Play for Work, for increased application management, while delivering a consistent end-user and management experience across their Android fleet.”
This is the move that Blackberry needed to make considering that they are struggling in hardware sales, and partnering their prowess in corporate data security with the world’s most common smartphone operating system is exactly what the doctor ordered. We do wonder whether Google had already inked this deal when Android for Work was released earlier this year, but there’s no point speculating now. Hopefully this is the real start of Android’s uptake in the corporate world, so we’ll have to see if this partnership has any legs.
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Source: Blackberry via Phone Arena
