Designer TCL shows features unannounced BlackBerry Juno smartphone

A designer from the Chinese manufacturer TCL has shown slides of various functions of the unannounced BlackBerry Juno smartphone. The information has since disappeared from the designer’s site.

The slides, which Reddit user Night-Fury-Toni highlighted, show several new features. For example, there is a way to make photos that do not end up in the Gallery, but end up in a designated ‘private folder’. That folder is also a new feature. In addition, the camera can scan business cards and read and store the information from them via OCR, something many apps have been doing for years.

The phone also gets a Jolt mode. Then the phone turns off all background tasks while charging to get the device charged as quickly as possible. This would allow users to provide the battery with more energy within a short period of time.

The BlackBerry Juno is according to smartphone insider Evan Blass a new Android smartphone from TCL. The Chinese manufacturer designs and manufactures the phone; the software and brand come from the former Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry.

Like the KeyONE, the Juno will have a physical keyboard with a fingerprint scanner in the space bar, but the slides show no further details. The slides are also outdated; the text refers to Android M, the name by which Android 6.0 Marshmallow was known. As a result, it seems that TCL has been developing the device for a while.