So maybe you're shopping for a new cellphone this weekend. You could wait for that heady new Facebook phone. Or you could hold out for that cheap iPhone. And then there's the latest savior from BlackBerry, which, hey, when we tried it out over the last two weeks — and out at the bar on the weekend — at least nobody made fun of it.
The first earnings report from BlackBerry since its new phone launched isn't all bad news—the company reported $94 million in profit and $1.2 billion in revenue—but there are some alarming figures like the 3 million customers the company has lost over the last three months.
As the U.S. market remains on standby for sales and even ads, reports from both analysts and suppliers suggest sold-out new models in the United Kingdom, the first and only place the BlackBerry Z10 is available yet.
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