Blackberry has collaborated with Samsung, Secusmart and IBM to announced a new tablet which is security conscious – SecuTABLET developed for a German government department. The tablet was announced at the 2015 CeBit tech conference in Germany and is expected to arrive in the summer for a price of around €2,250 ($2,380)
According to Blackberry, the SecuTABLET is a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 modified with a Secusmart Security Card for voice and data encryption and with IBM’s “app wrapping” to separate secured work apps from less secure personal ones. The tablet also has Samsung KNOX secure boot technology which ensures the OS on it has not been tampered with.
It’s has been a long time we saw a tablet from Blackberry – that was the Blackberry Playbook in 2011, and even though we haven’t seen any successor for the tablet, the QNX OS used on the slate is used in building the Blackberry 10 OS.
Secusmart would sell the SecuTABLET in Germany while IBM would sell them elsewhere. Even though the tablet is developed for government, Blackberry hopes IBM enterprise customers would also be interested in the slate.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 sports a 10.5-inch (2560 x 1600 pixels) Super AMOLED display (288ppi pixel density), powered by an octa-core 1.9GHz Enynos 5420 processor with ARM Mali-T628 MP6 GPU, 3GB of RAM, 32GB space of internal storage, a microSD card slot (up to 128GB), front 2.1MP camera, rear 8MP camera, Android 4.4.2 OS and a 7900mAh battery is on-board.
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