BlackBerry working on a smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800-soc, as would appear from the benchmarkresultaat of the device with the code name Ontario. The most powerful BlackBerry to date it has an soc that is a few generations older than the Snapdragon 800.
The Snapdragon 800 in the BlackBerry Ontario is doing its work on 2,15 GHz, is evident from the published results of the Geekbench 3. The soc is a MSM8974AA, the first generation of Snapdragon 800, which, in various variants, also in the Nexus 5, Nokia Lumia 1520 and Sony Xperia Z1 Compact. The smartphone has four Krait-processor cores and an Adreno 330 gpu. The benchmarkresultaat indicates that Ontario has a ram size of 2GB, the same as other BlackBerry 10 devices until now.
The Ontario would be a lot more processor and graphics power on board than the current BlackBerry 10 phones. Many of them run on the Snapdragon S4 Plus soc from Qualcomm, only the Z30 has a more powerful gpu, thanks to the S4 Pro soc. Since Geekbench is not on-screen tests do, lacking further info about the screen resolution.
It is unclear how BlackBerry intends to use the additional processing power in the Ontario. At this moment the BlackBerry 10, according to the Tweakers-review all smoothly on the Z30, although it is launching apps faster can.
The smartphone runs according to the information on a newer build of BlackBerry OS than is now available, namely version 10.3. BlackBerry itself is in 10.2.1. If and when the Ontario is released, is unknown. The new director, John Chen said earlier is to focus on cheaper BlackBerry’s and models with a physical keyboard. It is unknown whether the Ontario a keyboard.
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