BlackBerry vague about successful new smartphone - z24

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The Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones has a quarterly loss, and is silent on the success of its latest models.

That was Friday at the publication of the figures for the months of March, April and May. This is the first quarter of the financial year of broken BlackBerry.

Blackberry, the first successful smartphone maker before the rise of the iPhone, hit the past few years deep in the doldrums. In 2012 the company worked hard to make a comeback with the new operating system BlackBerry 10. CEO Thorsten Heins this launched two handsets, the Z10 and Q10 with touchscreen with a keyboard.

BlackBerry 10

Analysts were particularly curious about the results of the Z10 this year filled in sales is gone. But at the presentation of the quarterly figures gave BlackBerry only that 6.8 million smartphones sold in the months of March, April and May, a total increase of 13 percent compared with the previous three months.

How many mobile phones with the new BB10 system have been sold, wild blackberry Friday not lost.

Loss BlackBerry

Blackberry wrote about last quarter loss of $ 67 million against a loss of 518 million dollars in the same period a year earlier. However, had expected a slight profit for the last quarter.

Analysts

Revenues in the quarter came in at $ 3.1 billion, 9 percent higher than the same period a year earlier. That was slightly lower than expected.

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CEO Heins gave Friday in a press statement that the BlackBerry coming months additional efforts to include the new BlackBerry 10 phones to market.