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Einstein once said insanity is to keep doing something and expect a different result. BlackBerry’s long-term insistence that its handsets were integral to its “secret sauce” business could be likened to that.

BlackBerry’s PRIV on Android now runs Android Marshmallow 6.0 – a great update to an interesting, secure smartphone.

Even before the new PRIV was released people wanted to know if it would get the Android Marshmallow 6.x update ‘any time soon’.

BlackBerry’s Q4 results (January to March 2016) were released over the weekend. They show software and services growth, but its financial performance in the smartphone arena was poor.

Hard on the heels of rumours that Blackberry may exit the smartphone hardware business comes new rumours of its next handset – the Vienna.

It’s all over the news, an analyst thinks BlackBerry may soon retire its hardware business despite the Android-powered Priv recently launching, but is it true?

BlackBerry on Android – with a slide out keyboard, 5.4” OLED screen, 18MP camera, and it runs all apps – this is the stuff electronic dreams could be made of.

Blackberry is back and it wants a slice of the mobility pie – but not in the way it did previously via devices.