BlackBerry Q10 Release Date for Sprint: Coming Late August Without Z10, and No Word on Z30

The BlackBerry Q10 is finally going to be available on Sprint, beginning at the end of August.

Sprint has confirmed the release date of the BlackBerry Q10 as Aug. 30. It was rumored that Big Yellow would be getting the second in BlackBerry's first two flagship smartphones, and it looks like that is going to happen sooner rather than later. The BlackBerry Q10 will work on Sprint's LTE network, and Blackberry's Enterprise Service will be included on the BlackBerry Q10, according to Pocket Lint.

"Our customers have anxiously awaited the arrival of the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone," said David Owens, Sprint's vice-president of product development, to Pocket Lint. "Its best-in-class physical keyboard, productivity features, enhanced security capabilities and apps make it easy to be productive at work and connected to friends and family after hours."

The BlackBerry Q10 will be available for just under $200 online and in stores, but only when you sign a two-year contract agreement. And the BlackBerry Z10 is still not going to be available to Sprint customers, which Sprint announced earlier this year: "We aren't saying there's anything different about our customers. We think our customers will be happy with the Qwerty keyboard and touchscreen on the Q10," Sprint spokesman Mark Elliot said in March.

The BlackBerry Q10 comes with a 3.1-inch touchscreen and a full, physical, qwerty keyboard. The display's resolution is 720 x 720 pixels, packing 330 pixels per inch on a small touchscreen. It comes with 16GB of internal storage, 2GB of RAM, and has an 8-megapixel main camera, along with a 2-megapixel front-facing shooter.

Meanwhile, what's been called the BlackBerry Z30, the successor to the BlackBerry Z10, has been rumored since the beginning of June, when a report was released by CNET saying that the next generation device would be available on Sprint in November. No word was given about the Z30 with the Q10 announcement, so we'll just have to wait and see.