Blackberry reports a $4.4 billion dollar loss

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BlackBerry's new interim chief John Chen has just got a rude wake-up call: the company shipped only 1.9 million smartphones to retailers in Q3 compared to 3.7 million last quarter, and lost $4.4 billion. Most of the phones shipped were lower-priced BB7 models, and it lost a massive $2.6 billion on unsold BlackBerry 10 devicesand other associated BB10 charges. Retail channel sales (of phones already shipped) during the period also showed the scale of the drop in its upmarket phones: of 4.3 million devices sold to end-users, only 1.1 million were BB10 handsets. Given that, Chen has already started making big changes, including a new organizational structure. The Canadian outfit's been divvied up into the following businesses: Enterprise Services, Messaging, QNX Embedded and Devices. It hopes that'll create more focus for the services group and greater efficiencies for its handset division.

With smartphone sales in freefall, BlackBerry also detailed its new five-year partnership with Foxconn. It said such a deal would let it focus on design and software, while "Foxconn's scale and efficiency will let us compete more effectively." Foxconn will build handsets in both Indonesia and Mexico and will start to ship budget consumer devices in emerging regions by early 2014. For other markets, BlackBerry said it would focus development on segments still friendly to the brand, like enterprise and government. Meanwhile, the Waterloo company's only bright spots in the quarter were messaging, with 40 million new Android and iOS users, and its bread and butter enterprise services. Given the hardware sales drop in just a single quarter, however, it seems to be do-or-die time for the iconic company.

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Really is a shame, but they sat back and watched iOS come into the game and didn't adapt. BBM only held on to users for so long.

Hate it had to be you, RIM :to:

40M users from iOS/Droid though :wow: They charge a buck or two after a year and they could be :eat: again. Imagine cross-advertising with that user base.
 
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