Can BlackBerry 10 beat the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, Samsung Galaxy?
By: Heather Kelly
All BlackBerry did Wednesday was change its corporate name, introduce two new smartphones and launch a bold new mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10, that may be the struggling company’s last stab at relevance.
Now it’s up to consumers to render a verdict on whether BlackBerry’s new offerings — the all-touchscreen Z10 phone and the Q10, which still has a keyboard — are worth buying over iPhones or Android devices.
BlackBerry (they’re now no longer known as Research in Motion) still has some work to do, and early reviews of BlackBerry 10 have been mixed. But there are some promising signs out there.
Here are five reasons BlackBerry 10 may win over fans, new and old.