BlackBerry Q30

If BlackBerry doesn't stop selling phones, its next two major phones may be the Z50—a yet-larger touch screen phone—and the QWERTY keyboarded Q30, according to CrackBerry. Just as I was more excited for the Q10 than for the Z10, the Q30 looks interesting because it keeps that niche, hardware keyboard flavor alive. The current rumor is that the Q30 will come out in the second quarter of 2014, likely at BlackBerry's annual developer conference in May.

The very existence of the Q30 is in question, though, because these new phones were creations of the previous Thorsten Heins regime at BlackBerry. With the new CEO, John Chen, all bets are off and all options are open. He could continue to release phones—or he could scrap the whole line and turn BlackBerry into a software company. We'll know that by May, for sure.

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