BlackBerry has launched its first smartphone running the Android operating system.<br />It is a new approach for the company which has struggled to attract customers to its own operating system, BB10.<br />BlackBerry said its new device, Priv, was designed to offer customers improved security over rival Android handsets.<br />"Coming with a device that tries to address security on Android is a good idea, but may have been better three years ago," said Francisco Jeronimo, research director for industry analysts IDC.<br />"It will be difficult to regain clients who have already moved to other handsets, and it's quite an expensive device."
