The once mighty Smartphone company is looking to bounce back with a bang in 2013.
BlackBerry certainly aren't doing things by halves, rather than testing the waters by releasing one or two handsets on their all new BlackBerry 10 operating system, they have promised that six BlackBerry's could be on the way in 2013.
FierceWireless managed to nab an interview with the head of marketing over at Research in Motion (the company that build Blackberrys) and the suggestion was that six all new BlackBerry 10 devices will be heading into stores in 2013 and will be available at a range of prices.
It seems that BlackBerry are looking to start from scratch and release a whole new range of phones that they hope will draw customers back to them. The range is likely to have two or three lower range models with the same amount of mid range ones and one high end device which will be the BlackBerry 10 flagship model.
BlackBerry have got a lot riding on the new operating system; in recent years they've fallen behind Android and the iPhone and the new models will have to have enough about them to lure back customers looking for an effective work phone as-well as trying to appeal to the teen market.
It's also been stated that BlackBerry 10 will have 70,000 apps upon launch and this will include a fairly impressive 90 per cent of the top 600 apps on rival platforms - so it doesn't look like you'll be missing out on your favourite apps if you choose to decide to make the change from your current handset.
Despite BlackBerry's move to an operating system with touch input they're not quite ready to give up on the traditional keyboard, out of the two phones that are launching at the end of this month one will sport a keyboard while the other will be the first glimpse of a complete touchscreen phone from BlackBerry.
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