The long wait is over! BlackBerry Q20, also known as the BlackBerry Classic, is finally ready for release by December, according to the Canadian phone manufacturer CEO John Chen. He made this announcement during the MIT Enterprise Forum in HongKong. However, the announcement was not complete as neither revealed which date on December exactly, nor the price of the much-awaited device.
" BES12 will launch on November 13th, followed by the BlackBerry Classic one month later," CEO Chen said during the forum. The BlackBerry Enterprise Service 12, or the BES12, is a "tool for business and government customers to manage mobile devices on their networks, and is also the company's attempt to unify its existing platforms and provide clients with increased flexibility and security."
Positioned as a mid-range phone, the BlackBerry Classic is expected to sell even better than the the high-end BlackBerry Passport, which is currently getting good reviews from users. Although there are no official images yet of the BB Q20, there have been leaked photos of the said device which has been circling the internet the past months. According to the leaked images, BB Q20 is said to be bringing back the physical navigation keys and trackpad just like its forerunners. It takes back the "belt," just above the QWERTY keyboard, because users of the Q10 were looking for this feature. The keyboard stretches from edge to edge along the bottom of the phone which makes the typing experience way better as the keyboard is now easier to use. It has a 3.5 inch screen that will also be square, with 1,440 x 1,440 pixels screen resolution and a 582 ppi pixel density. It gives a wide display of 60 characters, making the webpage viewing pleasurable and reading documents much easier. It has a dual core processor at 1.5 GHz with a 2GB RAM, and a long lasting 2,525 mAh battery. It can now support NFC and 4G LTE. It is rumored to be running Blackberry 10.3 OS, supposedly an unreleased OS. Furthermore, the new Blackberry Classic is believed to be the thinnest handset Blackberry has ever produced having a dimension of 130 x 72 x 9mm.Based on the leaked prototype images, it appears to have stereo speakers and external nano-SIM or microSD card slots.
Stay tuned for the update on BlackBerry Classic's official release date.
