A leak from various online sources has indicated that BlackBerry is planning to offer an entry-level BlackBerry smartphone sometime in summer. The phone will be a minified version of the BlackBerry Q10, with an integrated QWERTY keyboard. It is currently made known to be the “R-Series”, and probably called a BlackBerry R10. It will have two side slots for the microSim and the microSD card. Even though it could be rare to see BlackBerry using a side slot, it has been done before BlackBerry Bold 9000.
The lower end R10 will include a 8GB of built in flash storage, a 1800mAH battery and is expected to be in the USD300-400 price range.
A tester of the entry-level model has drawn a sketch of the device for the internet as a NDA prevents him from taking a photo of the unannounced smartphone.
