Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry is pinning its future on its all new BlackBerry 10 operating system, and signs are looking promising with early adopters giving the OS the thumbs up, now the company’s CEO has stated a new flagship BlackBerry 10 device is promised for 2013.
When the company first showcased its new operating system we also got to see the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 smartphones with the latter set to become available in the coming weeks. Now though CEO Thorsten Heins has said in an interview with Cnet that the company has another flagship device due for release during the holiday season later this year.
He claimed to be really excited about the new device but couldn’t share the information about it for the time being, and Heins also revealed the company have another mid-range device also due for release at some point this year.
The CEO was asked what makes the new flagship handset so good he replied that the device takes the OS to a new level for user experience, while he expects the BlackBerry Q10 to land in markets one or two months after the other device was released, and we have already seen pre-orders for the unlocked versions of the handset begin in the UK.
Eventually the company wants to have three levels of smartphone with each of them having a touchscreen device and a physical QWERTY model. All the handsets will either use the same sized display as the Z10 or the Q10, which is a move to help developers provide applications for the platform that has now reached 100,000.
Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry is pinning its future on its all new BlackBerry 10 operating system, and signs are looking promising with early adopters giving the OS the thumbs up, now the company’s CEO has stated a new flagship BlackBerry 10 device is promised for 2013.
When the company first showcased its new operating system we also got to see the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 smartphones with the latter set to become available in the coming weeks. Now though CEO Thorsten Heins has said in an interview with Cnet that the company has another flagship device due for release during the holiday season later this year.
He claimed to be really excited about the new device but couldn’t share the information about it for the time being, and Heins also revealed the company have another mid-range device also due for release at some point this year.
The CEO was asked what makes the new flagship handset so good he replied that the device takes the OS to a new level for user experience, while he expects the BlackBerry Q10 to land in markets one or two months after the other device was released, and we have already seen pre-orders for the unlocked versions of the handset begin in the UK.
Eventually the company wants to have three levels of smartphone with each of them having a touchscreen device and a physical QWERTY model. All the handsets will either use the same sized display as the Z10 or the Q10, which is a move to help developers provide applications for the platform that has now reached 100,000.
BlackBerry has only announced two devices that run its new BB10 operating system — the keyboardless Z10 and QWERTY Q10 — but today we might be getting a look at the third device in its lineup. A BlackBerryOS.com forum user posted an image of a previously unseen Curve-like QWERTY device, calling it the R-Series. The poster didn’t offer any more details on the phone, but purported details of a new lower-end BB10 handset were posted by BlackBerry Empire, which may or may not be describing the same device.
If the description is accurate, the phone will have microSD and Micro SIM slots on its side for quick swapping without taking the phone apart, include 8GB of storage, and house an 1800mAh battery. It goes without saying that this is still far from certain — the BlackBerry Empire image below appears to literally be a drawing on a napkin — but a new BB10 device is still noteworthy. But it’s not likely that we’ll see it in the short term, considering the Q10, which BlackBerry showed off in January, won’t be arriving in US stores until May at the earliest.
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