BlackBerry Q20 narrows-down its ETA

Last week, BlackBerry announced a couple new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, including its upcoming Q20 handset. The Q20 is notable for not just being another hardware keyboard model, but also going back to the company’s roots by incorporating some old-style menu, back, send, and end buttons, as well as a trackpad. We weren’t quite sure how enthusiastic we should be towards the company taking a step backwards with its ...

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Looking to the past won’t save BlackBerry

Last week, BlackBerry broke into the fast-and-furious MWC news cycle with a few announcements of its own: not only would the company be keeping the door open for another tablet in the coming years, but it would also be releasing new smartphone hardware in the form of the Z3 and Q20. The former device was less than interesting, destined as it was for Indonesia, but the Q20 seemed like a BlackBerry fan’s NSFW fantasy. As ...

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The BlackBerry Q20 is just the first of many “classic” BB10 models

Yesterday brought us some interesting news from BlackBerry, with the company announcing two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones. While the Z3 will be available in just a matter of weeks, its Indonesian-only focus took some of the air out of the news. But then we also learned about the Q20, the next BB10 model with a hardware QWERTY keyboard, though one that won’t hit retail until the second half of the year. The Q20 intrigued us so due to the way it seemed to backpedal in BlackBerry’s evolution, restoring the hardware ...

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BlackBerry launches Q20 and Z3 BB10 handsets

We knew to expect new Androids this week, and boy have we seen a lot of them! Those have been joined by handsets on platforms like Firefox OS, and we even got some updates about where Windows Phone is headed. Today, however, we receive news of a couple smartphone launches that have swooped in largely under the radar, as BlackBerry confirms two new BlackBerry 10 models, its Z3 and Q20. The Q20 will be the company’s latest model to feature a hardware keyboard, and ...

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