BlackBerry
BlackBerry to restart production of the BlackBerry Bold 9900
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During its fiscal fourth quarter, BlackBerry sold 3.4 million handsets. Unfortunately, 2.3 million of those were older BlackBerry 7 OS driven models. The old BlackBerry might have decided that the public got it wrong and would try to force feed them BlackBerry 10 flavored handsets. But new CEO John Chen is nothing if not pragmatic. Instead of doubling up on ads for BlackBerry 10, the executive has done the sensible thing and has re-started production of the BlackBerry 7 OS driven BlackBerry Bold 9900. This model, which had a CDMA twin known as the BlackBerry Bold 9930, combines a physical QWERTY keyboard and a touchpad, with a small touchscreen display. Released in 2011, many call the physical QWERTY on the device the best keyboard to ever grace a smartphone.
