Global smartphone maker BlackBerry
is all set to launch its most waited QWERTY
keyboard enabled device BlackBerry Q10
in India on June 6 of the current year. A private source reportedly revealed
that the company is now working on the final processing, and it will soon be
sending especial invites to the event very soon.
Two weeks back India’s one of the leading online shopping portal
Snapdeal listed BlackBerry Q10 for pre-orders. The interested buyers need to
spend Rs. 1,000 in order to pre-book the upcoming smartphone. The shopping
website had mentioned that the Q10 would be released on the 4th week
of May at the time of listing the product. However, now it is confirmed that
the mobile handset will make its grand launch in the first week of June.
BlackBerry didn’t reveal any words whatsoever on what will be the final
price for Indian market of the BlackBerry Q10.
It has to be added here that the Q10 is going to be only the second smartphone that will eventually run on the new BlackBerry 10 operating system. The company had already unveiled its Q10 smartphone in the domestic market of Canada and Britain in the last week of April of this year only. As per reports the BlackBerry Q10 has done awesome businesses, and it’s practically sold out in the markets in which it was unveiled earlier including the likes of Canada and the United Kingdom.
Mr. Thorsten Heins, who is
the active Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BlackBerry, informed that the Q10
has received a great reception in the UK from the active smartphone users of
the country. He also shared that the company was hoping to sell "several
tens of millions of units" of this smartphone worldwide in the upcoming
months, as the expectations were really high from this device.
BlackBerry is trying to
make a comeback as the front runner of the global smartphone market, and this
Q10 is expected to make an instant impact on this process for sure. It is going
to be a crucial launch for the handset making company.
BlackBerry Q10 will have a 3.1-inch
super AMOLED touchscreen with a physical QWERTY keyboard. BlackBerry has been
associating these QWERTY keyboards in its devices since the time when it
started developing smartphones for its consumers. Over the years it has become
like a trademark of the BlackBerry smartphones. The Q10 will also have 8
mega-pixel rear camera, and a 2 mega-pixel front camera. It will also have all
the advanced connectivity options like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 4G, 3G, and NFC. It
will comprise of 2GB of RAM, a battery of 2100mAh, and internal storage of huge
16GB.
In January 2013 Blackberry introduced its new BlackBerry
10 operating system with launch Z10, which is the first device to run on the
new OS. BlackBerry Z10 was launched in India on February 25 with a price tag of
Rs. 43,490.
