BlackBerry today announced the latest in its series of secure Android smartphones, the DTEK60, which offers a larger, high-resolution display (compared to the DTEK50), a fingerprint sensor, long lasting battery, 21MP camera and a customized convenience Key As part of BlackBerry's transition towards a device software licensing strategy, the DTEK60's hardware is manufactured by TCL and comes equipped with the security software BlackBerry is known for. It is now available for sale at ShopBlackBerry in North America and Europe and will roll out to other regions in coming weeks.

DTEK60 is the second device in the DTEK series of Android smartphones. It comes equipped with all the security features that BlackBerry's Android OS devices have, including security patching and the DTEK by BlackBerry app that allows users to monitor and control their privacy on their phone.

Features available on the DTEK60 include:

• Fingerprint Sensor: For quick turn on and unlock, the BlackBerry Fingerprint Sensor provides added security for unlocking your phone, accessing Password Keeper and making purchases - including Android Pay. Add up to five fingerprints which are fully encrypted with security you can trust.
• BlackBerry Intelligent Keyboard: DTEK60 has a smart keyboard designed to learn from users and increase typing accuracy and speed. It provides word suggestions as you type and includes up to three languages, letting you flick them into place for faster conversations.
• BlackBerry Hub: This unified inbox is a tool for consolidating all of your messages in one place - whether it is email, calendar, social or phone calls.
• Customizable BlackBerry Convenience Key: With the press of a button, the Convenience Key provides quick access to your most used applications and more.
• Screen: DTEK60 has a 5.5" Quad HD display (2560 x 1440 resolution, 534 PPI) capable of displaying 16 million colors. The screen is made of scratch-resistant glass and features a specialized oleophobic coating to protect against smudges and fingerprints.
• Expandable Memory: With support for micro SD cards up to 2 TB, DTEK60 provides the flexibility to add and hot-swappable memory.
• Camera: DTEK60 is engineered to deliver professional-looking photos with an 8MP front facing camera and a 21MP auto-focus rear camera. Plus, features like Phase Detection Auto Focus and a dual-tone LED flash are designed to help the camera focus instantly for a blur-free looking photos, even in low light.
• Battery: DTEK60 packs a 3000 mAh battery with enough power to withstand up to 24 hours of mixed use.

The device also comes equipped with the security and productivity features:

• Rapid Security Patching
• DTEK by BlackBerry App: Enables users to automatically monitor their OS and apps to know when their privacy could be at risk and to take action to improve it. The DTEK app also monitors applications and notifies you when someone is: taking pictures or videos without your knowledge, turning your microphone on, sending a text message, or accessing your contacts or location.
• Hardware Root of Trust: BlackBerry uses a proprietary technique that adds security from the start, allowing for the tracking, verification and provisioning of the DTEK60.
• Secure Boot Process: Starting with the root of trust, each stage of DTEK60?s secure boot chain must first verify that the next component is fully intact before proceeding, ensuring your device has not been tampered with since the last restart.
• Android OS hardening: BlackBerry provides additional security patches, improves upon Android's native Address Space Layout Randomization and reduces the number of system applications and services running with elevated permissions. This makes it more difficult for attackers to compromise the OS.
• FIPS 140-2 Compliant Full Disk Encryption: Protects your private information, like pictures or bank information, from being stolen if you were to lose your phone.
• Android for Work and Google Play for Work: Allows for simple and secure integration with an enterprise environment as well as easy access to numerous rich business and IT-managed apps.
• Full Enterprise Mobility Management Support: DTEK60 supports BlackBerry?s suite of EMM applications and secure productivity solutions, including: WatchDox by BlackBerry for secure file-sharing, Good Work for business-class email and collaboration tools, Strong Authentication by BlackBerry as a VPN solution, SecuSUITE for Enterprise for secure voice and instant messaging communication, BBM Protected for encrypted messaging and BES12 for secure cross-platform management.

Starting today, DTEK60 is available to purchase from ShopBlackBerry.com in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands for $499 USD ($650 CDN, and £475).

Anyone who orders DTEK60 from ShopBlackBerry.com will receive a complimentary accessory bundle. US and Canada customers will receive a DTEK60 Soft Shell and Rapid Charger for free and customers in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands will receive a DTEK60 Pocket Case and Rapid Charger for free. This offer expires on November 8th at 11:59 pm PST.

Blackberry DTEK60 specs

• Size:
  • Height 153.9 mm / 6.06 in
  • Width 75.4 mm / 2.97 in
  • Depth 7 mm / 0.28 in
  • Weight: 165g / 5.82 oz
• Navigation: All-touch screen, with intuitive gesture based navigation
• Keyboard: On screen BlackBerry Keyboard, Contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction and a personalised learning engine that gets to know the way you type with on screen flick typing or seamless flow typing.
• Dedicated keys:
  • Volume Up/Down, Lock (for Power On/Off)
  • Customisable BlackBerry Convenience Key (usable as Mute Key when on an active call)
• Display:
  • Resolution: 534 PPI
  • 2560 x 1440 Quad HD resolution
  • 24-bit colour depth
  • Screen Size: 5.5" diagonal
  • 16:9 aspect ratio
• Operating system: Android OS
• Processor:
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core (MSM8996 with 64 bit Quad-Core 2+2 Kryo 2.15GHz / 1.6GHz)
  • Adreno 530, 624MHz GPU
• Memory:
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 32 GB Flash
• Expandable memory: Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD memory card (Up to 2TB)
• Ports:
  • USB Type-C
    • USB 2.0 fully supported with standard USB Type C to USB Type A cable (included in box)
    • USB OTG
• Battery: 3000 mAh 4.4V non-removable Lithium Ion battery QC3.0 Enabled
• Battery life:
  • Up to 24 hours mixed battery life
  • Up to 26 hours talk time
  • Up to 14 days standby time
  • Up to 88 hours audio playback
  • Up to 17 hours video playback
• Rear Camera:
  • 21 megapixel auto-focus camera
  • 4K video recording at 30 fps
  • 720p HD video recording at 120 fps
  • Phase Detect Auto Focus (PDAF), Fast focus lock
  • HDR
  • 6-element f2.0 lens
  • Dual Tone LED Flash - Enhanced photo colour balance
  • 4x digital zoom
  • Continuous & touch to focus, face detection, video image stabilisation
  • Panorama, Burst, Live Filters
  • Multi-frame Low Light Enhancement
• Front Camera:
  • 8MP Fixed-Focus, f2.2
  • 1.125um pixel size
  • 84˚ wide angle/field of view lens
  • HDR, Live Filters, video image stabilisation
  • Image & video stabilisation
  • 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps
• Selfie Flash:
  • Wide Selfie Mode (also known as Selfie Panorama)
  • Multi-Frame Low Light Enhancement
• Network bands:
  • North America and Latin America:
    • LTE Advanced, with speeds up to 300 Mbps for data downloads
    • FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17, 20, 29 (2100/1900/1800/1700/850/2600/700/700/800/700/2300 MHz)
    • HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 (2100/1900/1700/850/900 MHz)
    • Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
  • Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific:
    • LTE Advanced, with speeds up to 300 Mbps for data downloads
    • FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19, 20, 28A (2100/1900/1800/2600/900/800/700 MHz)
    • TD-LTE 38, 40, 41 (2600/2300/2500 MHz)
    • HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5/6, 8 (2100/1900/850/900 MHz)
    • Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
• Wi-Fi:
  • 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz
  • 802.11 a/n 5GHz
  • 802.11 ac 5GHz
• 4G Mobile Hotspot: Wi-Fi Direct
• Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.2 Low Energy (LE) and EDR
• GPS:
• Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS
  • Support for User Plane and Control Plane GPS
  • GLONASS, BeiDou
  • OTDOA
  • Pre-loaded Google Maps
• NFC: NFC technology is used to create a connection to share information between your BlackBerry device and other NFC-enabled devices or NFC tags.
• Sensors:
  • Accelerometer
  • Magnetometer
  • Gyroscope
  • Proximity
  • Ambient light
  • Hall Effect
  • Fingerprint sensor