The QWERTY keyboard-enabled BlackBerry Q10 has been confirmed for a summer release date on Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile.
Verizon says it will have the Q10 available sometime in June, and it's the only carrier that will offer the white version of the phone. Sprint says it will have the Q10 in stock late this summer.
T-Mobile began pre-orders last month for the Q10 for its business customers, and the phone is now available for purchase by that same group, with delivery expected in a week.
The general public can get its hands on the 10 from T-Mobile in June. It will cost $99.99 upfront with $20 monthly payments for two years. Customers can also shell out the full $579.99, either upfront or anytime before the end of the payment plan, without penalty. T-Mobile will then unlock the phone for use on any carrier.
The BlackBerry Q10 is the old-school counterpart to the popular BlackBerry Z10, which debuted earlier that year as BlackBerry's first foray into the modern smartphone arena. The Q10's design is a throwback to the thumb operated road warrior models common before the advent of the iPhone, but it still offers most of the amenities of the Z10, as well as the BlackBerry 10 operating system, a full OS built from scratch specifically for this new breed of smartphones and mobile devices aimed at helping B;ackBerry break back into the market it helped to create.
The BlackBerry Q10 features a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 plus processor, 2GB of RAM, a 3.1-inch 720x720 touchscreen display, an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video, 16GB of internal storage, an SD card slot for up to another 64GB of storage, a full physical QWERTY keyboard and runs the newly revamped BlackBerry 10 operating system.
Check back for the latest information on the BlackBerry Q10 as it becomes available.
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