BlackBerry: the next A10 unveiled in video

The BlackBerry situation is still delicate and the manufacturer knows he must offer a range of terminals BB10 to emerge. Objective seems to apply methodically.

After the Z10, Q10 and the Q5, the manufacturer would be in its cartons an A10 which will stand at the top of the range. All touch (like the Z10), however, it will be larger than its predecessor with a 5 inch instead of 4.2-inch screen.

A video revealing the terminal since a few days on the Web and confirm these first features.

If the first Blackberry models were rather well received by critics, the manufacturer has however sorely need for volume growth. Recall q' in the first quarter, the manufacturer sold 6.8 million smartphones, an increase of 13% from the previous quarter.

Still it is 1 million less than in the first quarter of 2012 and more than 6 million less than in the first quarter of 2011... 40% of these shipments were BlackBerry 10. Analysts were expecting shipments of about three million of these new phones.

Sling-shareholders

Suddenly, the Group has plunged back into the red with a net loss of $ 84 million, versus a loss of 518 million over the same period of the previous fiscal year.

At the annual meeting of shareholders, Thorsten Heins, p - dg has the calm the sling acknowledging some errors for the launch of the Z10 to the United States while refuting the accusations of failure in this strategic market. The boss reiterated that BlackBerry is still "only at the beginning of her transition".

However, according to the Wall Street Journal, Richard Piasentin, Vice President of sales in the United States was sacked (which was confirmed by the Group) and the quotdien says a new social plan would be in preparation.

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Key figures: sales of mobile and smartphones