If BlackBerry was benching its company on the success of the BlackBerry Q10, then we are pretty sure the investors would be pretty unsure about the future of the company.
However, recent figures from the UK seem to show a lot of demand for the new qwerty keyboard smartphone being developed by BlackBerry.
Carphone Warehouse, a UK retailer, sold 2,000 BlackBerry Q10’s in ninety minutes, selling out all the available stock. That means twenty-two UK buyers bought the new smartphone every minute.
This could just be early reports, as the BlackBerry Z10 gained. We then heard rumours about stockpiles of the smartphone all over Europe after five weeks, due to surges dropping on the phone demand.
We have seen huge traction for the BlackBerry Q10, after the initial launch release of the two smartphones, the Q10 had more traffic on Google and more people wanted to find out when it was launching.
Currently, analysts peg the BlackBerry Q10 at more than one million sales in the UK and Canada, before the launch in the US which is likely to grab another half a million.
Long term projections of BlackBerry’s future may not too great, especially considering the company needs to market a new tablet and new smartphones by 2014 to keep up to date with all the other companies.
Right now, BlackBerry has three options: keep going, try licensing, be acquired. Licensing has been a topic for debate inside BlackBerry, but we have yet to see any solid reports on this move going into effect.
Lenovo said they would be willing to purchase the Canadian smartphone developer, but BlackBerry has not commented and Lenovo has taken away this comment.
We will have to wait until late May to see how the BlackBerry Q10 does internationally, but in the UK, it is off to a booming start.
