The Blackberry Q10, the company's newest incarnation of their ubiquitous full qwerty all-business phone, will be coming to T-Mobile in early June, according to a recent report from the T-Mobile watchers over at TmoNews.
The rumored release date is June 5, which is still unconfirmed, although it seems pretty credible, as T-Mobile's website already has a Q10 listed as "available June 2013" with a sign-up field for notification when the Q10 becomes available. Next Wednesday, when the Q10 probably hits the T-Mobile store shelves, the price the "uncarrier" will be asking is $99 down, with 2 years of $20 per month to pay off the rest of the phone. As you may remember, T-Mobile now offers noncontract wireless plans and doesn't subsidize their phone prices, so if you cancel your service with T-Mobile, the cost of the rest of the phone transfers to you.
Previous reports here have the Blackberry Q10 releasing on Verizon the day after, June 6, giving the timing for a T-Mobile launch even more credibility. It looks like T-Mobile might be launching the HTC One on the same day, as well.
When Blackberry launched its new lineup and operating system earlier this year, they offered two new smartphones, the Z10 and the Q10. The Z10 was instantly the most talked about phone from the beleaguered Blackberry (formerly called Research in Motion before the launch), because it was their first real foray into the modern fully-touchscreen, slate form-factor smartphone. But the Q10 is likely to be a long-time favorite for Blackberry users who still like the old physical qwerty keyboard, but want all of the new features of Blackberry 10 OS.
The Q10 comes with a 3.1-inch touchscreen, with a full qwerty keyboard underneath. It has a display resolution of 720x720 with 330 pixels per inch resolution density. IT comes with 16GB storage, 2GB RAM, an 8 megapixel primary camera, and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera.
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