After years of declining sales a change is emerging for BlackBerry. The Canadian manufacturer has waarschijnljik more smartphones sold in three months, and years earlier.
According to figures showing financial news agency Bloomberg has collected over the period March to May. BlackBerry then sold 7.7 million units. In the previous quarter the sales year plummeted to her even from 11 million to 6 million BlackBerrys.
The resurrection of Blackberry is due to the new models Z10 and Q10, which run on the equally new mobile operating system BlackBerry 10. Especially the Q10 with its traditional physical keyboard can loyal customers tempt. The Z10, which only has a touchscreen, is less well received by the general public.
Several analysts have their forecasts for BlackBerry’s sales results already increased. The company seems to have now new opportunities a new model of iPhone is not expected in the short term and the Galaxy S4 Samsung no overwhelming successes booked.
Sales increase of 20 percent is expected
Next Friday (June 28) makes BlackBerry the figures for the first quarter (March to May) are known. Analysts expect a sales growth of 20 percent to $ . 3.38 billion It would be the first sales increase after eight quarters of steady decline in sales.
The company surprised analysts already somewhat with the results for the fourth quarter of the previous year (December to February). Earlier than expected showed BlackBerry being hit.
In just begun, second quarter (June to August), however, the sales drop back to 7.4 million units, according to the poll by Bloomberg. This is because the demand for the Q10 then peaked while sales of older models even further falls.
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