The Canadian smartphone and operating system manufacturer, BlackBerry is back to the markets, as the company's new Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman, John Chen introduces, the new Z3 and Q20 handsets at their Mobile World Congress trade show event, held yesterday.
As said by the firm's CEO in position, the new Z3 smartphone is BlackBerry's first ever phone that'll make it to the Taiwanese Foxconn's network, in a strategic partnership, announced back in December, 2013. The other phone we have from the Canadian this time is the next generation Q20, which will sport the company's traditional physical QWERTY keyboard, buttons and a dedicated trackpad.
The new BlackBerry Z3 (from the above picture) will come out of it's box with a Dual-Core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with Cortex-A7 Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Adreno 305 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), a full five-inches screen of 540 x 960 resolution display marked at 220 pixels-per-inch, eight gigs of internal mass storage and 1 1.5 GB Random Access Memory (RAM), five megapixels main camera on the back with 1.1 megapixels snapper on the front, fourth generation LTE connectivity on board, running BlackBerry 10.2.1 OS over the hood. The Z3 attributes some apps like BlackBerry Hub, BBM, BlackBerry Keyboard, Time Shift & Story Maker, BlackBerry 10 Browser, Instant Previews & Reply, Fast, Easy Sharing, FM Radio and more. The handset is expected to show up on most of the major carriers around Indonesia, staring April.
Lastly, the BlackBerry Q20, bringing back the old Menu, Back, Send and End hardware buttons along with their integrated trackpad to 2014, featuring a 3.5-inches capacitive touchscreen, which is currently the largest one announced from the BlackBerry QWERTY phones fleet. Other internals specifications of the phone is disclosed at the moment, only saying about a large battery for better battery life and premium material used in making it more reliable and durable. The phone will ship with enhancements from BlackBerry 10, by the end of second half of this year.
Source: BlackBerry 1, 2