Blackberry Classic Q20 Release Date, Price: End Of 2014, Q20 Part Of Blackberry Revamp

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Blackberry Classic Q20 Release Date, Price: End Of 20114, Q20 Part Of Blackberry Revamp

Canadian mobile phone maker, Blackberry has restructured its marketing strategy after losing market share to Apple, Samsung and Google. The advent of Google's Android platform has pervaded smartphone technology at an affordable price. Blackberry, however, was exclusively designed for business users and was a 'status symbol' of executives.

Blackberry is changing its expanding its vision of the business smartphone to include more options for the consumer and the Blackberry Classic Q20 release date, price is an example of going back to the 'Classics' to suit the customer.

The Blackberry tagged the Q20 has been dubbed Classic after an older version of the Blackberry. The one thing that Blackberry has done well is to make its MMS or Blackberry's popular messenger service available on iOS, and Android platforms.

The Blackberry messenger service is touted for its ease of use and efficiency and it's a service most smartphone owners would want on their smartphone, including the iPhone and Samsung Google Android devices. Capitalizing on the Blackberry MMS is a great way to woo enterprise clients along with potential mobile customers.

Recently, CIOL caught up with Blackberry Executive,Manoj Khilnani, the country marketing head-Enterprise, BlackBerry India:

CIOL: What is BlackBerry's enterprise road-map ?
The Blackberry revamp is four-tiered...Devices, Software, BBM and QNX. Blackberry announced its rollout of new products: Z3 and the Blackberry Q20. The Blackberry Z3 has already rolled out in Indonesia, a testing ground for smartphone sales. The Blackberry Classic Q20 release date, price and Z30 were introduced to the public at the Mobile World Congress 2014. The Blackberry Classic Q20 is planned for launc towards the end of 2014.

USA Today's Maria Bartiromo 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.

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