BlackBerry goes back to basics in quest to recover customers


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 26 Feb 2014

POPULAR IN INDONESIA: Customers wait at a BlackBerry service centre in Jakarta. BlackBerry has introduced a lower-end Z3 smartphone, code-named Jakarta, which will go on sale in April in Indonesia. - Reuters

BARCELONA/TORONTO: BlackBerry Ltd unveiled a new, cheaper touchscreen smartphone and a "classic" model with a keyboard on Tuesday, as it tries to stem losses and win back once-devoted security-conscious business and government users.

The news, coupled with more details about the company's strategy in its services business, helped send shares in BlackBerry surging more than 9%.

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