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‘BlackBerry intends to support the BlackBerry operating system indefinitely’

An interview by DNA India quoted Sunil Lalvani, Managing Direction of BlackBerry India, saying that “There will be support for all BB 7 devices till December 2015… then we will discontinue sales of older BB devices, and provide exchange offers and upgrade offers for existing BB 7 users, to move to BB 10 platform.”

This sounds like a good move, as BlackBerry’s BB10 OS is where the company is betting its future. However, it’s untrue. The Waterloo-based company BlackBerry has issued a statement dousing the idea and declared that “[We] intend to support the BlackBerry operating system indefinitely. Any comments to the contrary are not correct.”

BlackBerry recently reported Q4 results and revealed that BlackBerry smartphones running OS 7 are recording larger sales that the new BlackBerry 10 devices. This is largely due to low-cost pricing in emerging markets. BlackBerry stated that 3.2 million BlackBerry 7 devices were sold last quarter, compared to only 1.1 million BlackBerry 10 smartphones.

Source: BerryReview
Via: N4BB

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