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The BlackBerry Z10 is the one phone that aims to revive the company and increase its market share, but seeing as how BlackBerry suffered a loss last quarter, they’re going to have to pull out the big guns. A handful of major carriers and retailers have discounted the Z10 to as low as $49 in order to increase sales for the new BlackBerry 10 device.
It’s only been four months since the Z10′s release, but it seems BlackBerry has waited long enough for sales to increase, and they’re wanting units out the door ASAP. Both Amazon and Best Buy have discounted the phone to a measly $49 after signing a two-year contract. That’s a whopping 75% off of the original $199 price tag.
As for the carriers, AT&T and Verizon are now selling the device for only $99 – half off of the original price. If you’re looking for the best deal, hitting up either Amazon or Best Buy would be the best option, obviously, but $99 is still a decent price for a phone that’s only four months old.
Off-contract prices for the phone are remaining the same, however, and it doesn’t look like T-Mobile is offering any kind of discount on the Z10 either. According to the Wall Street Journal, a BlackBerry spokesperson said that the price cut is merely just a “part of life cycle management to tier the pricing for current devices to make room for the next ones,” and “now is the right time to adjust the price.”
Four months does seem a bit early to start bringing the price down on devices, but does this mean we’ll see a second-generation Z10 sooner than we would normally expect? The company is still pumping out updates for the Z10, including BB 10.1, as well as what looks to be BB 10.2 that was leaked earlier this month.
VIA: Wall Street Journal
BlackBerry Z10 subsidy increases as sales suffer is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 10
It’s back to basics for BlackBerry in a set of devices revealed – or re-revealed, depending on how versed in the dark art of leaks you are – to be headed for a bit of a reboot of both the Q10 and the Z10 for 2013. The devices at hand are the BlackBerry A10 and 9720, both of which are being detailed this week.
What you’ve got with the A10 is a new larger version of what was delivered with the Z10 earlier this year. The A10 goes by code-name Aristo and is made to be a touchscreen machine with focus on power and gaming. It’s been suggested to BGR, along with details of the other handset at hand, that the A10 will have a “much more refined fit and finish” than the Z10.
This device is suggested to be taking on a bit more unique angle than the previous releases with BlackBerry, going with a separate GPU and CPU instead of the current integrated chip solution they employ at the moment. What this means for Qualcomm and NVIDIA should be clear, if said suggestion is true: BlackBerry is out.
That said, it’s tipped that the A10 will be working with 2GB of RAM and a dual-core processor while, at the moment, BlackBerry 10 is not prepared for a quad-core structure. Or at least they’d not be able to make full use of any more than a couple cores at this stage.
Meanwhile the BlackBerry 9720 is a reboot of the Q10, but better yet, it looks essentially nothing like this first-wave entry into the BlackBerry 10 environment. Instead the 9720 is more of a reboot of the BlackBerry 9700 in style, made much more a 2013 look to match up with the rest of the BlackBerry 10 family. The following images are provided by the same tipster speaking to BGR above, here showing the 9720 in all its glory.
Look like a good full set of devices for the company through the rest of the year? How does this make you feel as a legacy user of BlackBerry devices?
BlackBerry A10 and 9720 lead for 2013: reboots the both of them is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 09
AT&T has announced the arrival of the BlackBerry 10.1 update for BlackBerry Z10 owners, who can head over to the carrier’s software update page now and nab the latest software. The announcement was made on Twitter, which has a link directing users to a software update page that does not, at the moment, appear to actually have a download option for the Z10.
The update will be appearing as an OTA option as well, however, so take solace in that. The BlackBerry Z10 was announced earlier this year when RIM rebranded itself as BlackBerry, rolling out the devices and unveiling BB 10 at a time when it struggles to reinvent itself and draw back in much-needed consumers. This particular update has been long awaited by subscribers.
The Z10 features a 4.2-inch LCD display with a resolution of 1280 x 768, while there’s a 2-megapixel camera above it and an 8-megapixel camera around back. Inside, users will find a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8960 processor alongside 2GB of RAM, as well as 16Gb of storage space and a microSD card expansion slot (up to 32GB).
As far as connectivity goes, the Z10 features Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11 a/b/g/n, quadband LTE, UMTS/HSPA+ and GSM/EDGE. This accompanies an integrated mobile hotspot feature that allows users to share their 4G connection. The battery, meanwhile, is a fairly small 1800mAh that gives somewhere in the range of 11 hours of talk time on a 3G network.
According to the folks at CNET, this update will bring AT&T Z10 owners quite a few new features, among them being an HDR camera mode, support for Skype, BlackBerry Hub PIN-to-PIN messaging, unlocking with the power button when at the start screen, pasting phone numbers into the dialpad, an option for disabling individual app alerts, and more.
SOURCE: Twitter
BlackBerry Z10 on AT&T scores BB 10.1 update is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jun 28
While BlackBerry makes its best effort to find its way back to smartphone positivity, this weeks’ response to the company’s latest earnings have been rather negative. It’s not as if the company doesn’t understand what’s happening, and how it’ll be seen by the public – “[BlackBerry is still in] early stages of its transition” remarked
Jun 28
BlackBerry aims to have no more than six different products on the market at any one time, CEO Thorsten Heins has said, potentially limiting BlackBerry 10‘s roll-out as it tries to keep enterprise users of the older OS content. Speaking on BlackBerry’s financial results call, after announcing an $84m loss in the most recent quarter,
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BlackBerry issued a security advisory related to the Z10 smartphone. The ‘critical’ security advisory is related to BlackBerry Protect, the escalation of privilege vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious app to gain permissions in BlackBerry Protect
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