Toronto: BlackBerry's new Q10 smartphone, which comes with the physical keyboard that many BlackBerry fans prize, is selling well in both Canada and Britain, an industry analyst said.
The company introduced the Q10, its second smartphone to run the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, in Canada and Britain this week.
"Our checks indicate broad sellouts with generally limited stock otherwise," Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said in a note to clients on Friday. "Based on our store checks, the BlackBerry Q10 has been selling extremely well and has been sold out or seeing limited availability in Toronto and across the UK"
Jefferies, which has a "buy" rating on shares of BlackBerry, said its findings were based on checks with top mobile carriers and retailers in both countries, including Bell, Rogers and Telus in Canada, and Carphone Warehouse, Vodafone, and Orange in Britain....
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10:30 AM, May 05, 2013
Washington: The Pentagon on Thursday cleared BlackBerry and Samsung mobile devices for use on Defence Department networks, a step toward opening up the military to a wide variety of technology equipment makers while still ensuring communications security. Lieutenant Colonel Damien Pickart, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department cleared the use of BlackBerry 10 smart phones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets using its Enterprise Service 10 system, as well as Samsung's Android...
12:47 PM, May 03, 2013
Toronto: BlackBerry said on Wednesday it plans to fill one of the biggest gaps in the app line-up on its new BlackBerry 10 devices with a long-awaited Skype application. Skype, which was acquired by Microsoft Corp in 2011, allows its users to communicate via voice, video or chat over the Internet, by-passing traditional telephone networks. The service has hundreds of millions of users across the globe. The announcement comes a...
12:08 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Bangalore: BlackBerry said its new smartphone BlackBerry Q10 will be available in Canada starting May 1 through Rogers Wireless, Telus Corp and Bell Mobility. Q10 will be available starting at C$199 ($190) with a three-year contract. It will also be available on Virgin Mobile Canada. BlackBerry said it expects Q10 device to be available in the United States by the end of May. BlackBerry is trying to claw back market...
08:27 AM, Apr 24, 2013
BlackBerry will begin selling its new touchscreen smartphone to US consumers with AT&T on March 22. The release will come several weeks after RIM launched the much-delayed devices elsewhere. ...
11:42 AM, Mar 12, 2013
The high-end Z10 had surpassed BlackBerry's expectations in emerging markets like India. ...
02:31 PM, Mar 08, 2013
The much-awaited BlackBerry Z10 has finally been scheduled to be launched in India on February 25. When asked, a BlackBerry spokesperson said, "The phone will be launched on February 25, and it's confirmed". ...
06:57 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Barely a week after launching an all-new, make-or-break line of smartphones, BlackBerry is already looking at a future in which it is a leader in "mobile computing," Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said on Tuesday. ...
11:04 AM, Feb 06, 2013
Research in Motion Ltd must chart a tough course in its two key emerging markets of India and Indonesia: quickly launch cheaper handsets to woo lower-end subscribers while restoring its tattered brand among the countries' status-conscious. ...
09:42 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Though BlackBerry announced the launch of BlackBerry 10 OS with 70,000 apps - which according to the company is by far the most for a first-generation platform in mobile history - the company failed to release the highly coveted Instagram app for BlackBerry 10 devices on the day of launch. Another app that people are looking for on BlackBerry 10 is Netflix. ...
05:38 PM, Jan 31, 2013
It's the first phone to run the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, and it is, at first blush, a very good stab at regaining at least some of the cachet of the BlackBerry. ...
01:27 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Close on the heels of the Blackberry 10 launch, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins introduced 14-time Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and entrepreneur, Alicia Keys, as BlackBerry's new Global Creative Director. ...
11:38 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Apple could soon be getting some fresh competition for its iPhone as Blackberry unveiled it's do or die product Z-10. And the face of BlackBerry's new look is Indian-origin Vivek Bhardwaj - the head of RIM's software portfolio. ...
10:27 AM, Jan 31, 2013
After a year-long delay and years of neglecting the onslaught by Apple and android-based phones, RIM finally unveiled its new Blackberry 10 mobile operating system, and the first phone to run it. Canada's Research In Motion is counting on this totally virtual phone to allow it to live to fight another day. ...
10:13 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Investors feel the new BlackBerrys aren't different enough to diminish the popularity of iPhone and Android. ...
07:54 AM, Jan 31, 2013
BlackBerry's redesigned operating system BlackBerry 10 includes a number of new features. Here are the top 10. ...
07:15 AM, Jan 31, 2013
After lengthy delays, Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled its first two phones with the new BlackBerry 10 system. The Q10 will have a physical keyboard, while the Z10 has only a touch-screen keyboard. ...
10:08 PM, Jan 30, 2013
After lengthy delays, Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled its first two phones with the new BlackBerry 10 system. The Q10 will have a physical keyboard, while the Z10 has only a touch-screen keyboard. ...
10:05 PM, Jan 30, 2013
