BlackBerry Is Now Helping Boeing Build a Self-Destructing Phone

We ’ve known for nearly a year that Boeing is work on an understandably hush - hush smartphone labor . It’sa self - destructing earpiece for spy ring the Boeing Black . And now we know thatBlackBerry is helping — which is kind of weird since the Boeing Black runs on Android . Again , it ’s all very hush - hush .

Details are abysmally scarce . In an net income call on Friday , BlackBerry John Chen expose that his company is “ Boeing is collaborate with BlackBerry to provide a strong mobile solution for Android devices employ our BES 12 program . ” He added , perhaps cheekily , “ That , by the way , is all they appropriate me to say . ” That said , Boeing does offer some detail about the projecton its website .

Well , whatever the partnership take , this is certainly exciting news for BlackBerry , a struggling society that could use some exciting news correct about now . In fact , BlackBerry ’s had some luck with it more secret node . Last twelvemonth , it announced its biggest single order ever when it sold one million units to an unnamed “ married person ” . We also sleep together that the military’svery interested in smartphones , though they prefer the Android operating system . It sound like BlackBerry ’s willing to work with Android , which is a respectable sign because BlackBerry intelligibly needs to work with something . [ Reuters ]

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