An executive shakeup and a new round of funding apparently won't deter BlackBerry from trying to make a comeback. The company is planning a new BlackBerry Z50 all-touch flagship and BlackBerry Q30 handset for the next year, according to reports out of China.
The BlackBerry Z50, a successor to both the just released BlackBerry Z30 and not even the year-old BlackBerry Z10, will allegedly pack a 5.2-inch display with a 1080x1920 resolution and a speedy quad-core processor. Other specifics for the device haven't been tipped, but BlackBerry is said to release the BlackBerry Z50 in Q3 of 2014. That's quite a ways away.
But for you BlackBerry lovers, you'll get some comfort knowing the refreshed BlackBerry Q10 - branded as the Q30 - will debut a bit earlier in Q2 of 2014. It will be the flagship QWERTY model out of BlackBerry, according to reports. Once again, we don't have too much information in the way of specifications, as these rumours are in their early days.
The reports line-up nicely with what we've been hearing, though. Our sources indicate that long before BlackBerry put itself up for sale in August, engineers were still cranking along on new products, despite instability even at the corporate level. We've also heard things should get especially interesting for the company come March 2014 to May 2014.
The man tasked with saving BlackBerry is John Chen, and he says there are no plans for BlackBerry to shut down its handset business (even if it has struggled in the past few years).
'I know we have enough ingredients to build a long-term sustainable business,' Chen said in an interview with Reuters earlier this month. 'I have done this before and seen the same movie before. I'm doing this for the long term. I am going to rebuild this company.'
That's a reassuring sign for not only BlackBerry employees and shareholders but fanatics too.
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