BlackBerry announced worse than expected losses ... - Engadget

BlackBerry just shared its financial results for its third quarter of 2014, in them can actually see how things are going to the Canadian company after injection of 1.000 billion Fairfax Financial and other investors, which came hand in hand with a change of CEO .

The numbers do not say anything nice, just the opposite, stating losses of 4,400 billion and revenues of 1,200 million dollars , both figures worse than expected. In the case of revenue, down 56% from the same period last year.

Regarding figures

handsets sold, been put in the market 4.3 million units, without going to compare to what you get competition, there is a far more serious problem: only 1.1 million correspond to devices with BlackBerry 10 .

new CEO , John S. Chen , is making major changes at the top in recent weeks, obviously has not had time to leave some or begin to affect the numbers, but the bleeding has to stop sooner rather than later.

BBM is installed outside BlackBerry

space for positive news, such as the BlackBerry Messenger service ( BBM ) is being well received. Since coming to iOS and Android, the number of registered users has exceeded 40 million .

We report in this time have created 250,000 channels BBM , and the second phase of new Android and iOS have to come in early 2014, with the implementation of BBM Video and Voice (already present in BlackBerry 10).

BlackBerry

include application working on phones from major manufacturers, such as LG or Samsung. Twelve other lesser known but important in emerging markets are already doing.

With Foxconn

the next five years

Coinciding with the report of quarterly results, the company has made an important announcement for its new product strategy: Foxconn will make up the different BlackBerry the next five years

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is important news for several reasons, first, to see that the company plans devices a medium and long term, and also verify that the new CEO continues to take decisions. It takes time rumored BlackBerry’s fate was to create software and business-oriented products.

Another question is what will be created in this new phase, it seems that Foxconn is going to ask access terminals – hopefully with BlackBerry 10 -, designed for emerging markets like Indonesia , and other important points in Asia and Africa.

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