In order to revive it’s declining sales Research in Motion may manufacture Blackberry smartphones that would run Android Applications, reported Bloomberg, citing three sources familiar with the plan.
Report says that Blackberry Devices enabled with Android app support and are likely to ship by 2012.
It said that new Blackberry phones will probably support Android Apps through an application player that will sit on top of the QNX operating system.
It will not be out of place to mention that Blackberry tablets with QNX based software were already confirmed to have Android support. Though, android support for QNX phones wasn’t communicated so far.
Blackberry struggles with number and quality of applications, but if android app support is added for blackberry devices then range for compatible apps for blackberry smartphones may grow up to six times of it’s current number.
Blackberry’s share of the global smartphone market fell to 12 percent in the second quarter of 2011 from 19 percent a year earlier, where as iPhone share rose to 18 percent from 14 percent, and Android stood at 43 percent of the market
