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Please use this source (this is where the ORIGINAL picture come from)

Q30?

backdate this a bit. Yes it can, if you're a trackpad guy. But do check out the Passport as well!

Backdate this as well. Q20 should be out before END of this year. It is launched simulatenously with BES12.

Before end of this year. Nov launch if on time. Together with the BES 12 services

Right now I think they are set with 2.5k battery. The specs they are testing come in 3 variants, and 3 sizes.

1) same as Q10 (everything)
2) extended form factor, upgraded battery to 2.5k mAH
3) take everything inside a Z30, and put into Q20 (now the latest test model is this)

They were doing testing with 3 batteries, 1.5kmAH, 2550 and the 3xxx battery. (I think around 3100, that's Passport's battery)


We won't know what's the end result, but its safe to say its no more blueprint, and now they're on hardware testing and finalizing details.



Don't think so. If you're talking Dual core Snapdragon 600 1.7GHz with Adreno 320 (Quad core Adreno 320, same as the one in Z30) then you're looking at some extremely overpowered GPU for the screensize. That is assuming they're settling for the Z30 spec on the phone.

It should also use the camera that's in the Passport.

if my data is right, the 13MP that's in Passport is made by SEMCO (part of Samsung)

If you look at BlackBerry's offerings, the Q20 is considered middle to high end, although technically it can be considered low end on Android.


I don't see the phone lower than Rm1400, but it should not be higher than RM1700.

try ipmart?

they do have a physical store.

Ecurve blackberry should have it as well.

be quick and go and pre-order! hahahaha

Soon, very soon. 10 days and counting.

And I believe you can already PRE-ORDER if you know the correct channels.


What do I mean correct channels?


In the past BlackBerry partners exclusively with only 1 telco. In Malaysia it used to be Celcom.


Today the pattern with BlackBerry (at least in Europe and in North America) is that they sell it direct via shopblackberry.com and Amazon


So i'm not sure how, but this will be VERY FUN.

Brightstar has upgraded status from "sell if somebody wants" to "full push and support". Good times are coming for BlackBerry!


Haters can jump off 14th floor now.

Secondly it is also the idea of engaging the customers. Older BlackBerry users who do not enjoy the idea of physical keyboards actually left the platform. Those who stayed around actually do have, to a certain extent, lingering attachment to the functionality of a BlackBerry, and that includes even the trackpad, as "backwards" as it may seem.

The BlackBerry Passport is a compromise in this, as it has everything the classic has, sans the toolbelt. However, it is also different from the Q10 because the entire keypad itself is a humongous trackpad and also emulates the function of a BlackBerry virtual keyboard. Judging from the initial response i think BlackBerry customers are very happy with the new direction, and thus in the future there will be templates for three keyboards, the full physical + toolbelt, the full touchscreen and a hybrid (maybe with, maybe without toolbelt, most likely without)




In respect to the q20 it should probably keep the existing corporate customers from leaving BlackBerry (note, BlackBerry at this point can just go on as a pure MDM/EMM company without selling phones, but that is another story) and probably be tempting enough to have corporations to consider buying the BlackBerry Classic and deploy it to their employees as a COPE (corporate owned, personally enabled) device and slap in an MDM of their choice (BlackBerry has opened up their BlackBerry 10 phones to be manageable by other MDM services) but i would expect the Classic to surpass the sales of the Passport. I think its the shrewdest move BlackBerry has done so far.

no celcom exclusive methinks. Local retailers are already selling with original warranty. Good for BlackBerry users, bad for Celcom (lewl, as if I care with their[Celcom] blood-sucking prices)

More retailers having it = ease of purchase.

The passport is big enough, I think.

no you don't need to convert. You just download the APK, then like any Android phone, install it. APK to BAR business.