BlackBerry Q10 Release Date for Sprint is Friday: Price, Features, Details

BlackBerry, the company, may be in trouble from a business perspective, but their phones still work. And for Sprint customers who have wanted to get their hands on the latest iteration of the physical qwerty keyboard-toting BlackBerry Q10, your time has come.

The release date on Sprint for the BlackBerry Q10 is Friday, Aug. 30. Starting now, you can pick up the BlackBerry Q10 (or get it shipped) through Sprint Stores and their online store, as well as enterprise sales and direct ship sales channels.

"Our customers have anxiously awaited the arrival of the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone," said David Owens, vice president-Product Development, Sprint. "Its best-in-class physical keyboard, productivity features, enhanced security capabilities and apps make it easy to be productive at work and connected to friends and family after hours. With the Sprint Unlimited, My Way and My All-in rate plans, our customers will be able to use the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone as it was intended, without worrying about silly data caps or overages."

You can get BlackBerry's second of two current flagship phones for as little as $200 if you get a two-year contract extension with an upgrade or a two-year contract for a new line.

Unveiled earlier this year along with the BlackBerry Z10, the BlackBerry Q10 is one of the devices that BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion) hoped would help turn the company around. That hasn't happened, but nevertheless, the BlackBerry Q10 is a good business phone, especially for legacy owners of previous qwerty BlackBerry phones.

The BlackBerry Q10 comes with a 3.1-inch square Super AMOLED multi-touch touchscreen screen on top of the qwerty keyboard, which has a resolution of 720 x 720p. The device is powered by a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus, clocked at 1.5GHz and assisted by 2GB of RAM. It has 16GB of built-in storage and a microSD card slot for up to 32GB more. And the BlackBerry Q10 comes with BlackBerry Messenger with face-to-face video chatting on its front or rear camera, which comes in at 2-megapixel and 8-megapixels, respectively. BlackBerry phones run the company's new BlackBerry10 operating system, and include nice business-focused extras like a micro HDMI port.