BlackBerry has been struggling to keep pace in the increasingly
competitive global smartphone market, and recently reported a massive $4.4 billion loss in the third quarter, with a 56 percent
drop in revenue. low-cost BlackBerry
phones will be taken over by Foxconn. The report informs that the first phone from the BlackBerry and
Foxconn partnership will be nicknamed Jakarta and can be expected to hit
markets by April 2014.In addition, BlackBerry's interim chief executive, John
Chen has revealed that the manufacturing. The report cites a source and claims that
BlackBerry will be continuing
to work on its high-end devices and is reportedly working on two such
phones, codenamed Ontario and Windermere.
On Monday, BlackBerry's
share prices surged on the Foxconn handset production deal, even though it posted dismal
quarterly results. The Hong Kong-listed unit of Taiwan's Foxconn would
initially build low-end devices for sale in Indonesia and other emerging
markets, while BlackBerry is said to be expanding the fledgling
relationship to its top-of-the-line smartphones.
BlackBerry is also
reported to plan more sales incentives to distributors and operators
for pushing the sales of its devices, which is expected to result in
lower-prices for its handsets based on BB10 and BB7 OS.
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