{"id":641842,"date":"2013-02-08T14:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackberrycool.com\/?p=30435"},"modified":"2013-02-08T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:30:56","slug":"retailers-report-strong-demand-for-the-blackberry-z10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641842","title":{"rendered":"Retailers Report Strong Demand for the BlackBerry Z10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BlackBerry Z10 has launched at a handful of carriers over the past week in Canada, the UAE and the UK. Every one of them is reporting strong demand which isn&#8217;t surprising because of how many people have been waiting for the device to launch. The demand is further fuelled by a high aftermarket demand from regions not yet selling the BlackBerry Z10.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-30435\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackberrycool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-2.28.40-PM-481x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-02-08 at 2.28.40 PM\" width=\"481\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30436\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though most of the buyers of the Z10 are early adopters, small-time opportunists are taking advantage of the device not being available in every region. Unlocked Z10s have been showing up on eBay and other online classified ads at a huge premium. Currently an unlocked model has an aftermarket value of over $850, with the seller buying the device out-of-contract for as low as $600.<\/p>\n<p>Reception of the new device and mobile OS have been very warm, I don&#8217;t think anyone expected a version 1.0 of any smartphone to be so functional and polished.<\/p>\n<p>A phrase I find myself coming back to again and again when thinking of the survivability of BlackBerry and the health of the platform is &#8220;If you build it they will come&#8221;. Even with the new OS being particularly easy to port to, many developers still choose to wait for a critical mass of users before putting in the effort. <\/p>\n<p>Some developers might wait to see how many millions of units have shipped by quarter&#8217;s end before deciding to support the platform, but others realize that they have built it, the users are there, and they&#8217;ll be needing apps.<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin in post ad --><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7131708721983712\";\n\/* 300x250, created 10\/14\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2579457768\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><!-- end of in post ad --><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/blackberrycool\/mYUU\/~4\/2NFShfsKleE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BlackBerry Z10 has launched at a handful of carriers over the past week in Canada, the UAE and the UK. Every one of them is reporting strong demand which isn&#8217;t surprising because of how many people have been waiting for the device to launch. The demand is further fuelled by a high aftermarket demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}