BlackBerry’s keyboard-equipped Q10 smartphone will arrive at Verizon...
BlackBerry’s keyboard-equipped Q10 smartphone will arrive at Verizon and T-Mobile in June and hit Sprint by late summer, the companies said Tuesday. Verizon will have an exclusive white version, but hasn’t disclosed a price. T-Mobile will introduce the Q10 at…
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$99, or $579 if it’s purchased outright. Sprint will release pricing and contract terms closer to its Q10 launch date in late summer, a company spokesman said. AT&T hasn’t released details of its Q10 plans, but is expected to have the smartphone available about the same time as Verizon and T-Mobile. Sprint is the lone U.S. carrier that didn’t offer the Z10. The Q10, like the touch-based Z10, is built around the BlackBerry 10 operating system that partly stemmed from the company’s acquisition of QNX from Harman International. Canada’s Rogers Communications was among the first to field the Q10 when it started sales April 30, offering the smartphone at $199 on a three-year contract. U.S. carriers were expected to follow about a month later, BlackBerry officials had said. The Q10 has many of the same features as the Z10, but with a 3.1-inch active matrix OLED with 328 pixels per inch (ppi) and capacitive touchscreen, replacing a 4.3-inch LCD with 368 ppi. It has a Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 dual-core 1.5 GHz processor, Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR SGX544 544 MHz graphics chip, an eight-megapixel camera, 16 GB internal memory and 2 GB RAM. It also has an HTML5 browser and 2,100-milliampere lithium ion battery with up to 10 hours talk time. The Z10 has Qualcomm’s 1.5 GHz MSM8960 dual-core processor and 1,800-milliampere lithium ion battery. The Q10 and Z10 are two of about six devices, including mid- and entry-level smartphones and PlayBook tablets, which are expected to ship based on the BlackBerry 10 OS, BlackBerry officials have said. Meanwhile, BlackBerry released the 10.1 version of its OS, featuring BlackBerry Hub, where all messages and notifications can be accessed in one place with improved attachment support to more easily view emails. Notifications also can be personalized for accounts and contacts and fine cursor control was added to more accurately determine where the user wants to type. The 10.1 OS also includes a high-dynamic-range shooting mode that allows the user to take multiple pictures at different exposure levels and layers to produce a single photo combining the best light and dark areas.