Foxconn, the penultimate hope for BlackBerry - ITespresso.es

day has not started well for BlackBerry. Canadian mobile phone maker announced a loss 4,400 million in the third quarter of the year, a stunning free fall from the already significant loss of 965 million suffered in the second quarter. BlackBerry revenues also fell to 1,200 million versus 1,600 million in the previous quarter admitted.

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only managed to sell 1.9 million smartphones between June and September , a drop of almost 50% from 3.7 million units sold in the previous quarter. And what is more discouraging for the future, “most units” that generated revenues in the quarter were mostly models of BlackBerry 7, no new BlackBerry 10 devices that had been the hub of efforts reactivation of the company, reports CNET.

These results show an even more devastating downturn when compared with the third quarter last year, when BlackBerry had a profit of $ 14 million, revenues of 2,720 million and sales 6 9 million smartphones.

However, what looked like a Black BlackBerry days in recent times has resulted in a promising situation. Along with the news of losses, today announced a new BlackBerry to develop and manufacture consumer smartphones, initially targeting Indonesia five-year agreement with Foxconn and other emerging markets, and to be sold in 2014 .

The announcement of the agreement with the Taiwanese manufacturer brought its first consequence the recovery of company stock at the market opening. Shares of BlackBerry were down 7% after the results of the quarter, but have gone up over 16% driven confidence that Foxconn canadeinse help the company to soar.

first smartphone with the BlackBerry brand Foxconn should arrive in March or April 2014 , revealed as the CEO of the Canadian company, John Chen, inside details about the first fruits of the association. It will be based on BlackBerry 10 and will be sold first in Indonesia, although Chen said having six or seven markets in mind for them later extended to 3G device.

“This agreement demonstrates the commitment of BlackBerry in the market for long-term arrangements and our determination to remain the innovation leader in end secure mobile solutions,” said Chen. “The partnership with Foxconn allows BlackBerry to focus on what we do best-design iconic, first-class security, software development and management of enterprise mobility, while we address the rapidly growing markets taking advantage of the scale and efficiency of Foxconn, which will allow us to compete more efficiently, “he said.

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