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BlackBerry Q10 pre-orders begin in UK, will ship by end of April

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After revealing its QWERTY Q10 handset way back in January, BlackBerry is almost ready to start selling it. Customers in the UK can now pre-order the smartphone, which runs BlackBerry's new BB10 OS, with delivery expected by the end of April. The Q10 will be available on Vodafone, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Three, EE, and TalkMobile. Pricing seems in line with other phones on the market, with C...

Purported low-end BlackBerry 10 device shows up in leaked image

blackberry r-series (blackberryos.com)

So far, 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...

Like a Q10 minus the glitz

RIM founder Mike Lazaridis leaves BlackBerry

Mike Lazaridis

Fifteen months after stepping down as co-CEO, RIM founder Mike Lazaridis is leaving BlackBerry's board entirely. As part of today's earnings report, the BlackBerry board announced that Lazaridis will step down from his current role of Vice Chair of the Board on May 1st. "With the launch of BlackBerry 10, I believe I have fulfilled my commitment to the Board... I believe I am leaving the company in good hands."

Lazaridis founded the company in 1984 as Research in Motion, and served as CEO...


BlackBerry exec claims just 20 percent of BB10 apps are Android-based

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Following the news that its app marketplace had surpassed more than 100,000 apps, BlackBerry has revealed that signed Android apps account for around 20 percent of its total BlackBerry 10 app count. In an interview with BlackBerry VP Martyn Mallick, AllThingsD reports that including access to emulated Android apps is beginning to pay dividends for the company, as developers shift their plans from simply porting their titles to fully committing...

Mystery BlackBerry partner behind million-device order said to be distributor Brightstar

BlackBerry 10 stock

The mystery partner that placed the largest order in BlackBerry's history has been revealed. AllThingsD's sources have confirmed a report today from research firm Detwiler Fenton that the "established partner" that ordered one million BlackBerry 10 devices is Miami-based electronics distributor Brightstar. Unfortunately, sources wouldn't provide any more details on the nature of the deal.

Brightstar provides a wide range of services to...

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