One of the more interesting announcements coming out of this week’s BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando was a cheaper version of the Q10 qwerty device called the Q5. This follows a spate of announcements about lower-cost smartphones aimed at the more cost-conscious markets in the developing world.
People in the U.S. and other developed countries often lose sight of the fact that there are a lot of places that don’t sell Gucci, Louis Vuitton, or other luxury brands. However, they do sell cell phones, and they sell a lot of them.