Sprint customers who have been waiting to get their hands on the BlackBerry Q10 will be happy to know the smartphone will become available on Aug. 30 for $199.99 with a new 2-year contract.
Sprint was the only major U.S. carrier to pass on BlackBerry's first BB10 smartphone, the BlackBerry Z10. The carrier announced that it would wait and offer the physical QWERTY-packing BlackBerry Q10 sometime in the summer. With summer quickly coming to an end, the carrier has stuck to its promise and will begin offering its customers the BlackBerry Q10 on August 30 for $199.99 with a new 2-year contract.
The Sprint BlackBerry Q10 features a 3.1-inch diagonal 720 × 720 Super AMOLED display with a pixel density of 330 pixels per inch (ppi) and runs BlackBerry 10 OS. The smartphone is powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus processor with 2GB of RAM to provide increased performance and BlackBerry has also included an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing shooter. The handset packs 16GB of internal storage and also has a microSD expansion slot that will support up to 32GB microSD cards. Other features include a micro HDMI port, 4G LTE radio, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, NFC and a removable 2,100 mAh battery.
Sprint announced the news and highlighted some of the exclusive features BB10 brings to the BlackBerry Q10. The re-designed, re-engineered and re-invented BlackBerry 10 platform offers a powerful and unique new mobile computing experience. It gives you a faster and smarter experience that continuously adapts to your needs. Every feature, every gesture, and every detail is designed to keep you moving 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, which lets you share things in an instant with the people that matter to you. 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.
Sprint will begin offering the BlackBerry Q10 online and in retail stores beginning on August 30 for $199.99 when signing a new 2-year contract.
