The BlackBerry Q5 was unveiled on Tuesday (14/05/2013) at BlackBerry Live 2013. It is the phone that was assumed to be known as R10.
The BlackBerry Q5 is a BlackBerry Curve-styled QWERTY keyboard smartphone running on BlackBerry 10 operating system.
The phone shares the Q10’s screen size and resolution, but is designed to be lower cost and aimed at emerging markets. BlackBerry is targeting first-time and youth smartphone owners in those markets and will offer the Q5 in a variety of colors, including:White,Red,Pink and Black
BlackBerry didn’t announce specific pricing, but said the Q5 will be available in July to “selected markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia (including the Asia Pacific region), and Latin America.
As BlackBerry tries to claw back up the smartphone ladder with its high-end Z10 and Q10 smartphones, the market reality is that it still sells more legacy BlackBerry devices and it sells them in emerging markets such as Africa, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
