Summary: Two smartphones that the ailing BlackBerry had stood on the schedule – and codenamed Cafe Kopi – will never come true. The BlackBerry Live conference will fail.
Fearing poor sales deletes two new BlackBerry phones that the company has been working on for a while.
“The company has taken the decision to delete to reduce the identified risks inventory launching two devices,” it sounds glossed over in the financial report (pdf) on its third quarter BlackBerry released Friday. It was The Wall Street Journal that the well-buried section discovered yesterday.
listened to two phones codenamed Cafe and Kopi and had to be put into the market as affordable smartphones as anonymous sources told the business newspaper.
The news comes just at the time that BlackBerry has announced that this year’s annual BlackBerry Live conference is canceled. Instead, there are several smaller events that will focus on. Specific target audiences BlackBerry organized the annual event since 2002. Last year was the cheap BlackBerry Q5 introduced here.
Again bad news
It’s just another bad news for BlackBerry. The results of the third quarter were also a lot less than expected. The company plunged 4.4 billion dollars in the red and sold only 1.9 million phones. In the second quarter, there were still 3.7 million.
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Despite all the doom and gloom is the new CEO, John Chen, determined to keep the business. above water “It’s important to know that BlackBerry is sitting on a huge amount of assets,” he said at the presentation of the quarterly results. “We have committed, dedicated people who want to do what is right for the company and its customers. The market has spoken, we have listened. “
Whether the market will still have BlackBerry, patience remains an open question.
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