Selfridges is a British department store that is calling the BlackBerry Q10 their “fastest-ever selling consumer electronics product.” As a result, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins expects the Q10 sales to be in the “tens of millions.” Thousands of Q10s are being sold per hour. One Selfridges location sold 2,000 handsets in 90 minutes, according to SeekingAlpha.
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BlackBerry has announced today that the BlackBerry Q10 device will be available in Canada starting May 1st. Interested consumers will be able to pick up the device from Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility, and Telus for $199 with a three-year contract. Other carriers that will be selling the phone include Virgin Mobile Canada, Fido, Koodo Mobile, and Sasktel. Consumers in Canada will also be able to buy the phone at The Source, Future Shop, and Best Buy sometime in the near future.
If you want to get your hands on a BlackBerry 10 device and you live in the U.S., odds are that you won’t get one until at least May. Initially BlackBerry was projecting that it would be available in the U.S. starting in March, but that’s not happening. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins revealed this information in an interview with the Associated Press. The release dates vary from carrier-to-carrier and the company said that the Q10 will arrive in other markets starting in April.
Today BlackBerry announced the BlackBerry Q10. The Q10 has a QWERTY keyboard, a 3.1-inch AMOLED screen, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and 2GB of RAM. The Q10 will also support LTE and it will be available on AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and other Canadian telecommunications companies. Below (after the jump from the homepage) is a demo video and press release about the Q10. [Source: BlackBerry Blog]
