‘First BlackBerry 10 device with keyboard coming early 2013’

The first smartphone with BlackBerry 10 and a physical keyboard should be released in early 2013. That reports a BlackBerry fan site. RIM is developing the device under the code name Nevada. It would have an OLED screen with a 720×720 resolution.

The phone should be much narrower than current BlackBerrys, according to an alleged internal slide that N44B has published. The slide mentions a screen width of 53mm. The screen is said to have a resolution of 720×720 pixels at a ppi of 330. The BlackBerry 10 keyboard phones will be serialized according to the slide, with the full-touch variants placed in the L-series, while the keyboard BlackBerrys will form the N series.

In early May, RIM presented a small portion of BlackBerry 10 at its own BlackBerry World event. While much is already clear about how developers can create apps, not everything is known about the operating system yet. Screenshots of parts of the interface did appear after the presentation. The first device with BlackBerry 10 should be in the shops this fall.

BlackBerry 10 must save manufacturer RIM from destruction; the company is in bad shape and at the beginning of this year a loss was made for the first time. Many people are also being fired and a large part of the management has been replaced in the past six months.