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Looking for an excuse to try out BlackBerry’s latest flagship? Here’s one: now it’s cheap. Folks willing to sign up for a usual two year agreement can score the BlackBerry Z10 for $99 at both AT&T and Verizon or a mere $49 at Amazon. The price drop is most likely designed to spur sales in the wake of the Canadian company’s $84 million loss last quarter. “Now is the right time to adjust the price,” a BlackBerry spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s part of life cycle management to tier the pricing for current devices to make room for the next ones.” In other words, BlackBerry needs to move its existing stock before it can sell the public on a second-generation device. Either way, the Z10 is a steal at $49 — unless you’re in one of the regions that’s simply giving them away.

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Source: Amazon, AT&T, Verizon, Wall Street Journal

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So, JK Shin hasn’t emerged from Samsung’s HQ declaring that his company has sold 20 million Galaxy S 4s, but the day (and week) is still young. Korea’s news media is quoting the CEO as saying that Samsung’s flagship Jay-Z player / handset has seen its sales double from the 10 million that was announced at the tail-end of May. Given that we’re but a few days away from the company’s next earnings estimates, we’ll probably find out for certain soon enough.

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Source: iNews (Translated), Yonhap News (Translated)

The last time we caught up with news of Colin Giles was a year ago, right after some particularly downbeat Nokia financials, when he left the Finnish manufacturer to spend more time with his family. Now, having clocked up sufficient mileage in his station wagon, he’s accepted a major role at Huawei as an executive VP responsible for consumer sales and marketing. He brings with him 20 years’ experience of growing Nokia’s market share in Asia and beyond, including a 12-month stint within its Leadership Team, all of which will now be put to work undoing itself and potentially adding to a sense of encroachment.

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Source: Engadget Chinese

BlackBerry got off to a roaring start with with the Z10, which shipped a million devices in its first three weeks on the market and led many to predict there’d be at least 3 million shipped this quarter (the first full quarter of Z10 availability). That turned out not to be the case, as the company said during an earnings call for Q1 2014 that it managed to get just 2.7 million BlackBerry 10 OS handsets out the door, despite the Q10 having joined the Z10 on shelves for a good part of that period. Those figures make up just 40 percent of its handset numbers, meaning most of the 6.8 million phones it shipped consisted of cheaper last-gen products. They refused to break those numbers down between the Q10 and Z10, so that’s all we have to go on at this point — but taken with its announcement of an $84 million loss, it’s far from encouraging.

Update: Apologies, folks. Our original headline said 2.7 million were sold, whereas in fact the figure indicates shipping numbers. The post itself is unchanged and accurate. For reference, BlackBerry’s actual sales to end users lagged behind shipments by around 30 percent when they revealed the previous set of figures back in March.

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