“We've
sold about 75 per cent of the stock that we got. The Z3 has done well so far,
benefiting from the easy installment options and discounts”
Himanshu Chakrawarti,
chief executive at The Mobile Store, commenting on the sales of the Blackberry
Z3
Blackberry
is on a recovery path, at least according to media assessment of the new
Blackberry Passport as reported in “BlackBerry:
Consumers are ‘clamoring’ for our new square smartphone”, published July
14, 2014 at 11:16 AM By Brad Reed, Boy Genius Report.
I
personally think so too, as even their Blackberry Developer blog has been
desperately seeking positive and gratifying news as per their latest
post on the Blackberry Developers Blog. Some of that positive affection is
coming from my personal blog article
entitled “Blackberry
Passport coming in September 2014 - Squaring up again the competition in
Portrait and Landscape Mode”, Despite not being a fan of Blackberry, the
fact that it does Android Apps js a plus in anyone’s book!
So
it is true?
Well,
the interest in the Blackberry Passport is indeed real; it’s a work phone after
all, not a toy like Google Android and Apple iPhone. I just hope that this perk
of not having to switch to landscape mode every time I’m doing a document comes
with some native support in Blackberry 10.3 for some well known Productivity
suites, such as Microsoft Office.
This
shouldn’t be too hard, as Microsoft has already extended this courtesy to the
Apple iPad back in March 2014 as stated in my Geezam
Blog article entitled “Microsoft
to introduce Office to Apple iPad on Thursday March 27th 2014”.
Blackberry Z3 Selling
in India – Prequel for the Success of Blackberry Passport
The
reason for me being so upbeat?
Aside
from the fact that Blackberry is finally facing reality and making smartphones,
they’re also achieving success with another smartphone, the Blackberry Z3,
which has sold out after only two weeks as stated in “BlackBerry
Z3 almost sold out in India”, published Jul 14, 2014, 01.22 PM IST by Gulveen Aulakh, ET Bureau, The Times of India.
This
lines up with my prediction of Blackberry seeking a revival by appealing to
as-yet untapped markets in India using the same strategy that Windows has been
using with the Nokia X smartphone as stated in my blog article
entitled “Blackberry
to launch Phablet with Blackberry 10.3 by Fourth Quarter 2014 - Profitability
in the Far East as Phablets, BBM 2.0 and Wearables are Trending in 2016”.
Pocket-handiness
issues aside, based on the sales of the Blackberry Z3, which has a similar size
lengthwise, it’s expected that come September 2014, the Blackberry Passport may
be their ticket on the Indian Express!
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