BlackBerry Q10 coming to Canadian carriers May 1st for $199 on contract

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The New BlackBerry Q10 Smartphone available in Canada May 1

The new BlackBerry® Q10, the first BlackBerry® 10 smartphone to
feature a classic BlackBerry® QWERTY Keyboard, will be available in
Canada starting May 1 on Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility and TELUS. The
BlackBerry Q10 combines the power of the BlackBerry 10 platform with a
large, re-engineered physical keyboard and stunning touchscreen
display the largest ever on a BlackBerry QWERTY smartphone.

"We're thrilled that the BlackBerry Q10 will soon be available to
Canadians," said Andrew MacLeod, Managing Director for Canada.
"The new BlackBerry Q10 combines the power of BlackBerry 10 with
a classic BlackBerry keyboard to help people communicate and
collaborate faster and more efficiently. We're seeing strong momentum
behind BlackBerry 10 from carriers, customers and partners around the
world. The BlackBerry Q10 will accelerate this trend."

Availability:

The BlackBerry Q10 smartphone will be available in Canada starting May
1 on Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility and TELUS starting at $199 with a
3 year contract. It will also be available on Virgin Mobile Canada,
Fido, Koodo Mobile, and Sasktel, and available in select retail
locations, including Best Buy, Future Shop, TBooth Wireless, The
Source, Walmart Canada and WIRELESSWAVE.

Highlights of the BlackBerry Q10:

Meticulous attention has been paid to every detail of the BlackBerry
Q10 smartphone's design, from its beautiful and distinctive form to
its elegant and ergonomic QWERTY keyboard, which features a wider
layout and larger sculpted keys. With the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone's
advanced hardware, communications and multimedia features, along with
long battery life, you can confidently stay ahead and take action all
day long.

The re-designed, re-engineered and re-invented BlackBerry 10 platform
offers you a powerful and unique new mobile computing experience that
continuously adapts to your needs. Every feature, every gesture, and
every detail is designed to keep you moving forward towards your goal,
and includes advancements such as:

· The ever present BlackBerry® Hub, which brings all your
conversations together in one easy to manage place that you can access
at any time from any app with a simple "peek", so you're
always only one swipe away from what matters to you.

· BlackBerry® Balance technology, which elegantly separates and
secures work applications and data from personal content, protecting
what's important to you and the business you work for..

· BBM (BlackBerry® Messenger), which lets you share things with the
people that matter to you in an instant. BBM in BlackBerry 10 includes
voice calling and video chat, and lets you share your screen with
another BlackBerry 10 contact.

· BlackBerry® Remember, which helps you tackle tasks quickly with a
new way to collect, organize and action all the information sitting in
different places across your smartphone.