BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins was interviewed in the Australian Financial Review about his thoughts on Apple. Heins criticized the iPhone’s lack of multi-tasking abilities compared to the BlackBerry Z10.
Earlier this month, we wrote about how the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone was rumored to arrive on AT&T starting March 22nd. AT&T has officially announced that the Z10 will be available for pre-order on March 12th for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Below is a press release about the news:
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The BlackBerry Z10 will go on sale with AT&T starting March 22nd. The Z10 touch-screen phone will start appearing in U.S. stores starting on March 22nd said sources with Bloomberg. BlackBerry receives about one-fifth of their revenue from the U.S.
The BlackBerry Z10 has arrived in India with a price of 43,490 rupees (around $800). India will be the third region after the United Kingdom and Canada to get the Z10. Eventually the Z10 will be offered in over 2,000 locations across 50 cities around India. Rumor has it that the Z10 will be arriving in the U.S. this March on T-Mobile. Verizon will be getting the Z10 in April.
Solavei is a contract-free mobile carrier company that will be selling the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone first in the United States. Solavei is a virtual operator company in the U.S. that uses T-Mobile’s GSM/EDGE/HSPA+/UMTS networks. The company has unlimited voice, SMS, and data plans for $49 per month contract-free. The BlackBerry Z10 is already selling in the U.K. and Canada, but will not be selling with the big U.S. based networks until March. Solavei is working with GSM Nation to sell the BlackBerry Z10 for U.S. customers starting now. Buying the Z10 through GSM Nation is $999 without subsidies and is contract-free. Below is a press release about the news:
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.
The BlackBerry Z10 is BlackBerry’s first full-touch smartphone that was announced last week. Powered by the BlackBerry 10 operating system, preorders of the phone in the United Arab Emirates and Canada are “solid.” This is based on channel checks conducted by Jefferies & Co.
The company formerly known as Research In Motion and now known as BlackBerry will start trading under the symbol “BBRY” starting February 4th. BlackBerry’s legal name change will occur later this year. The company will trade as “BB” on the Toronto Stock Exchange and “BBRY” on the NASDAQ.
