Blackberry Q20 release date was announced the new QWERTY handset Q20 right along with the Z3 touchscreen smartphone, at the sidelines of MWC in early February. At the time, he Canadian handset maker said that it would launch the Q20 by the end of 2014; a formal release date was not mentioned at the MWC 2014 Barcelona. .
In Maria Bartiromo’s USA Today interview with Blackberry CEO John Chen, she asked Blackberry’s Chen about the potential of the Blackberry Q20 release date.
“Maria B: People love their BlackBerrys. You have a whole host of people who really want you to succeed because they love the product. How important is this loyalty?
John Chen, CEO Blackberry: I very much appreciate... that. It's a big part of where we're going to go. When you look at our loyal customer base, it's very much concentrated in the government space, in enterprises like banks, insurance companies and various extremely productive oriented industries that need to be very secure. They need to have high security and trusting of the products, both in the handset as well as the software. That's a big part of my "road map" and strategy.
I'll give you a couple of examples: We're going to return the familiar user experience in the handsets business. There's a new product called the BlackBerry Classic that's coming out. It's an updated and enhanced version of one of our most popular and successful products called the Bold. It will include a keyboard and a good touch-screen, very fast Internet, Web-browsing capability and multimedia capability. But also it will be very productive and very secure. So, all the familiar things that people love, with some new technology updated. That will come out in November along with the server that helps companies manage devices. Not only the BlackBerry device, but every device, the iPhone and androids and Windows and everything else.
So, the new products will have a lot to do with the architecture . And we made some announcements of those at the Mobile World Congress.”
“Maria B: Are you saying that the security at BlackBerry is better than security at other companies?
John C: Oh, no doubt. First of all, we have a lot of technology that was built up over time. We have acquired a lot of different companies in the past that have created a really great security company. There's a lot of encryption technology. We have a lot of certificates, that governments around the world truly trust it. So, it's really both on experience and technology. We have no doubts, we are the No. 1 security technology provider, especially when in mobile and the wireless world.
USA Today reported CEO John Chen as saying that the BlackBerry Q20 will be released this November as BlackBerry Classic. Chen explained that BlackBerry 10 touch-cum-QWERTY smartphone was an inspiration by the popular Bold range of smartphone. According to Chen, the phone will include fast Internet, Web browsing and multimedia capability. The specs have not been released, but the BlackBerry Classic command keys that will include 'Menu,' 'Back,' 'Send' and 'End' buttons, along with a trackpad.
The price was not disclosed for the Q20 BlackBerry Classic.
