Blackberry will exit handset business if not profitable in a year: CEO

With the graph of the sale of the sale of the blackberry phones dropping down, the company has though of taking leave from the handset business if it would yield adequate profit this year.

Company CEO John Chen made the announcement while speaking at the Code Mobile Conference in California, USA. He said, "I'm in the handset business because i believe there's value added and a market that is underserved". Further he added, "What I'm doing is taking advantage of what the industry can offer, but not wandering off our core strengths".

Chen informed that Blackberry will support both Android and Blackberry 10 operating systems for now but could consider abandoning BB10 in a year or two if he company manages to bring all th security features of BB10 to Android.

He also said Blackberry was preparing to release two new versions of BB10 that feature advanced security features for government clients.