Awful sales forced BlackBerry to cancel two phones planned for 2014

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http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/b13aXKI.lW9H0iHKtrmXJg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/screen-shot-2013-05-14-at-9-34-03-am.png (http://news.yahoo.com/awful-sales-forced-blackberry-cancel-two-phones-planned-201012796.html)Hold onto that BlackBerry Z30 while you can, BlackBerry fans: It might be the last device designed in Waterloo targeted to the mass market for a long time. The Wall Street Journal has spotted a detail in one of BlackBerry’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week that explains how the company has decided to cancel two new smartphones that it had tentatively planned to release in 2014. The Journal’s sources say that the two cancelled devices “were internally code-named Café and Kopi, and were low-cost phones aimed at emerging markets.” Given that manufacturer Foxconn has been signed to churn out low-cost BlackBerry 10 devices, it’s not surprising that BlackBerry decided to cancel these two smartphones. BlackBerry CEO



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