{"id":37806,"date":"2013-05-14T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=37806"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:22:44","slug":"blackberry-announces-mid-tier-q5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/37806\/blackberry-announces-mid-tier-q5\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry announces mid-tier Q5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry unveiled a new mid-tier smartphone device with a physical keyboard on Tuesday, the feature that still sets it apart from most rivals, and said its make-or-break new devices had put the company back on &#8220;solid ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian company, which hopes new smartphones powered by its BlackBerry 10 operating system will prompt a turnaround, said the new Q5 mid-tier phone would be available in the summer in a range of colors.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry, which changed its name from Research In Motion, has bled market share to Apple Inc&#8217;s iPhone and Samsung Electronics Co&#8217;s wildly popular line of Galaxy devices, which are powered by Google&#8217;s Android operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of BlackBerry were slightly lower in New York and Toronto soon after the market opened.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on BlackBerry<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BlackBerry shareholder case dismissed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/34624\/blackberry-shareholder-case-dismissed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry shareholder case dismissed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BlackBerry subscriber numbers decline\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/34584\/blackberry-subscribers-decline\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry subscriber numbers decline<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BlackBerry profits off Z10 sales\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/34563\/blackberry-profits-off-z10-sales\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry profits off Z10 sales<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Low expectations for BlackBerry results\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/34308\/low-expectations-for-blackberry-results\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Low expectations for BlackBerry results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry unveiled a new mid-tier smartphone device with a physical keyboard on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,161,5839],"class_list":["post-37806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-blackberry","tag-blackberry-q5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37822,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37806\/revisions\/37822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}