The BlackBerry Priv could soon be up for preorder at Verizon starting on March 3, according to the carrier's VP of Communications, Jeffrey Nelson.
The executive confirmed the availability of the sliding Android-powered smartphone on Twitter, responding to a tweet that asks whether consumers can place an order on the said date.
@tvnzs @BlackBerry @VerizonNews fingers crossed!
— Jeffrey Nelson (@JNels) February 29, 2016
After some time of contacting Verizon customer support, the people over at the CrackBerry Forums got Nelson to finally make a statement.
This development comes hot on the heels when the BlackBerry Priv paid a visit to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) back in December.
If the smartphone does become available for preorder on March 3, then it will likely hit the shelves on March 11, the same day as the worldwide rollout of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.
This could be the next best thing to an official announcement so far, and customers waiting for a Verizon variant of the BlackBerry Priv will have to make do with this tweet. Just like Nelson, they have nothing to do but keep their fingers crossed as well.
Other carriers also offer the BlackBerry Priv, with AT&T at $740 and T-Mobile at $720. Sprint has yet to make an announcement whether it will sell the smartphone or not, but it will probably do so, making the device available from the four major U.S. carriers.
The BlackBerry Priv sports a 5.4-inch AMOLED display with a 1,440 x 2,560 resolution, clocking in at 540 ppi. Under the hood, it houses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and the Adreno 418 GPU along with 3 GB worth of RAM.
To keep up with the increasing need to store files, it has 32 GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 2 TB via a microSD card. For the mobile photographer, it packs an 18-megapixel rear-facing camera with a dual-LED flash plus a 2-megapixel front snapper.
With a 3,410 mAh battery crammed in, it can last for quite a while throughout the day. Out of the box, it runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.
To boil things down, there's a chance that the Verizon model of the BlackBerry Priv could just be a few days' away.
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