Although it was rumored earlier, Telus has confirmed that it will start offering the Priv by BlackBerry starting November 6. In addition, it doesn't look like there are going to be any pre-orders for Telus customers, according to a rep on Twitter:
@Im_Sure_ Hey Matt, no pre-order this year. The device will be available in-store and online on Nov 6th. :)
— TELUS Support (@TELUSsupport) October 23, 2015We don't yet have any pricing information from Telus, leaving the contract price for the relatively expensive handset up in the air. However, as we reported earlier, pre-orders for the Priv are now live from BlackBerry, with unlocked prices coming in at $699 in the US, $899 in Canada, and £559 in the UK.
Source: Telus (Twitter)
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Telus confirms plans to sell BlackBerry Priv starting Nov. 6
Telus fallus
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Yeah baby....!!
I clicked this on my Passport.
Ha, now I got a date to test it out in store! :D
Typed using my BlackBerry Classic running 10.3.2 on WINDmobile HSPA+
I love reading prem watsapp comments...always good...keep up the good comments
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899 Canadian, equivalent to£444 in england, if that's all it was here I'd be as happy as a cat with a cream flavoured arse..
Passport to heaven..
" I'd be as happy as a cat with a cream flavoured arse.."
You have won the internet today. Go home now and rest for tomorrow.
To rich for my blood. I stick with my Z30, best phone I've ever owned.
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Seems that BlackBerry decided that Z30-style launch should be done again, as is was sooo successful. Who needs marketing? Not BlackBerry certainly /s
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Probably 630€ without taxes and duties
From my awesome
Actually, those prices for the US and Canada seem quite good. 699 USD translate to 630€, 899 CAD to 620€. But there's still nothing on the price in Euro? Most high end devices start at 700€ (iPhone 6s 16 GB RAM sold for 750€).
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Another over priced one...last one.
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An overpriced android phone, who wants that?
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Overpriced compared to what? It is exactly where it should be based on specs and comparable flagships.
The Z30 is unbelievable!
Over priced??!! Have you actually compared it to other specs? Then add the extra security software and tell me what that is worth. The iPhone has a 12 mp camera, BB has 18 mp! The selfie camera is 2 mp ok. It has the feature of the Samsung Edge, the side notification screen. The screen is bigger than the iPhone 6s and just abit smaller than the 6s+. Look at the specs before you say over priced.
They're gonna sell a ton of these. Seriously, 1 ton. They're determining the amount of sales by weight now. The heavier the load, more profits are seen.
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Going to sell my Passport to help pay down this new Priv that I ordered
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$900 bwahahahaha!
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It's only $899 if you buy it unlocked from BlackBerry. $799 through you carrier.
The Z30 is unbelievable!
The BlackBerry Priv is $699.00 US, I locked in my pre-order today. Can't wait to get it.
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Just the info I was looking for......now waiting for Nov 06
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Verizon isn't getting it at all! I read that on this site anyway. I have a question though, what is Telus and where are they located?
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Telus is a Canadian Cellular service provider. Use to be CDMA but switched to GSM years ago and shut down the CDMA network in the Vancouver area earlier this year
Too expensive.
Honestly from a strategy approach, BlackBerry should not aim to profit from the priv.
They should instead price it so that they just break even of production costs.
The priv should be their way at getting their brand back into the market-by under selling their competitors.
!!!!!!!
Then their next phones should focus on generating a profit.
But hey im just an average guy. Its not like BlackBerry cannot afford this strategy approach-they can afford it.....
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Good thoughts, but company's don't run businesses to break even. Shareholders don't subscribe to that theory.
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Lol. your kind of quick written response is rather stupid.
Shareholders subscribe to strong prudent business models.
So yes breaking even as market growth strategy is what shareholders subscribe for. I myself am a shareholder
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Shareholders subscribe to quarterlies... :-)
Ahoy, Privateers, ... get ready for some data piracy...! ;-)
Hey you may be on to something new. Let's just break even.
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The phone will come out at a high price for all the early adopters who will buy at any price. Then a few weeks (or a month or two, depending on how it is selling) the price will drop. Eventually it will drop to a price point where the sales hit a level that makes sense.
If you are not an early adopter, you need patience.
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+1
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Exactly. When I buy BlackBerry devices as soon as they come out I know very well that I am paying a premium as an early adopter. But I make that decision consciously.
People shouldn't be surprised if the Priv is 50-100 overpriced on launch day.
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This is what I was expecting too. But Chen had once again proven that he is committed to close down the hardware shop, the one vertical he doesn't understand, neither qualitatively nor quantitatively. His statements are contradicting themselves.
But let us hope Priv at least reaches their goal of 5m devices so that hardware and OS hopes may live a little longer.
So they should not make a profit?!? And next year when they come out with th Priv2, you will be back here complaining that the price is too high.
Give it a rest. I'd you want it, buy it. If you feel that it is too much, then don't. But don't tell Chen that he should sell a device at cost. If they can't make a profit on hardware, they should not be in the smartphone market business.
Exactly
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Idiot
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No no no genius. You see you also are stupid
I am not complaining the price it too high for my sakes.
I am saying BlackBerry is not a well known competitor at this time, so they should get the phone out in consumers hands as many as they can by under selling.
Then with this loyality base of users can they start up selling. This is the exact strategy Samsung did, now their phones are priced high with Apples because they have consumer confidence.
I am recommending a similar strategy for BlackBerry
But you can continue to be an idiot and not have an idea about business, and long with you friend "exactly"
Lol
Two morons
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No need for name calling
Knowing Telus, it's probably going to be $1050 once they hit their shelves.
Telus doesn't show it as an upgrade for my phone.
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It's not even on their website yet. Might not be for a couple weeks. They will have it on the 5 th or 6th of November.
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Isn't Telus a CDMA carrier? Yet more hope for the Verizon hopeful in the States.
Telus is GSM. AFAIK, about 2-3 years ago all the CDMA carriers in Canada got together and switched whole-hog to GSM.
Telus' legacy network was CDMA, as was Bell's. Then they went to HSPA+ (converging with Rogers-a true GSM network.)
Neither Telus nor Bell has offered a CDMA BlackBerry for a while now. At least since the 9700 have they carried GSM+UMTS models of phones.
@vjfratiani
Verizon is a laughing stock when it comes onto what works and what doesn't.
If I'm not wrong, two years contracts usually comes with $400 subsidy
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If you look on Telus's site, most of the phones, all the phones have a $500 "subsidy".
Okay
Q5 OS10.3.2.2474
Like I had said... in stores on the 6th.
In Squircle I Trust
I'll go play with it on the 6th and then order it through work...
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Nov 5th Guy Fawkes day. Do they hope the launch goes off with a big bang
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I've been told Telus pricing will be:
$799 outright; -OR-
$399 on 2-year contract with minimum $70/month plan
Of course anything could change between now and actual release.
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Any proof? Screen shot?
RED Q5 SQR100-2/10.3.2.2789 on Telus
Nope sorry. Info given to me by an SMB rep, but these are the regular consumer prices. Not announced yet, but she found it on an internal site of theirs. So like I said, subject to change.
I hope it goes down soon. I can't afford $400 for a phone and $70 a month. I would $200 maybe $350. Otherwise I will have too get an older device. Or hope my Z10 lasts 6 months to a year for priv to be affordable.
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Telus twitter now saying Nov 5th.
The only buyers are all here.
End of BlackBerry.
LOL, bye bye troll
The Z30 is unbelievable!
Sadly, he's not wrong.
BlackBerry is alienating 99% of Android users with that price.
Every single person I know with an Android has either a Galaxy or Nexus device. The #PRIV isn't for the $99 phone crowd.
The Z30 is unbelievable!
It's not for 99 percent of Android users. You should know this. 90% of Android users could unfortunately give a rip about security and privacy.
Z30 wickedness
... until their bank account gets pillaged or Facebook hijacked... :-D
• Ahoy, Privateers...! :-) •
Can I get some statistics that show this actually happens?
How many mums have the name of one of their kids followed by the kid's year of birth or her own one as a password...?
Way toooo many...!!
Jason92
Emily89
Nelly05
Bubba1
...
:-D
Ahoy, Privateers, ... get ready for some data piracy...! ;-)
Lol at bubba
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I'm sure BlackBerry will be happy with the 1% of Android users it is for. Do the math.
Totally. Or .5 percent. Win win. :)
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And ALL of the previous BB owner base. What a way to end an amazing run of a once great company
I'm getting it from rogers, and some cases from CB and some screen protectors from amazon. If anyone knows of a glass protector, that would be ideal
Can someone ask BlackBerry if they still have plans to make a launch event for this device? It's just like 2 weeks before that date!
Welp, Chen did launched it today. Never mind.
I hope Telus launches at same price Rogers did, $799. Either way, I'm going to buy and have it shipped to our Alberta office and then have them send it to me in Montreal. I'll save almost $ 100 in taxes compared to Quebec!
RED Q5 SQR100-2/10.3.2.2789 on Telus
@nward2010...$80 ,lol
That price deserves to be flush down the privy.
LOL almost made me spill my coffee! Good one sir!!
To BB or not to BBBBBB...?
the market will regulate the price...
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Exactly. Here comes the massive unsold surplus!
Why can't Verizon be #1?
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Because Verizon uses an outdated CDMA network not GSM like most others in the world
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Go tell Japan that their wcdma network is outdated. First to get 3G and 4G in the world. And they use the same technology Verizon does....
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WCDMA is not the same as the CDMA Verizon uses.
WCDMA=AWS, uses a SIM card. WINDmobile uses the same technology for their network.
Typed using my BlackBerry Classic running 10.3.2 on WINDmobile HSPA+
No First for you nor Verizon.... :-D
I don't think they're gonna beat Telus!
• Ahoy, Privateers...! :-) •
Because Verizon users are the first in comaining and whining in every article. Like you someone special.
Switch carrier ffs and move on.
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Let's hope Verizon is first to get the Priv in the US!
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Hahaha...Good one!
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Hey, yours was a close 2nd! Haha
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With Thorsten Heins we would have less Verizon complainers and whiners. Cry me a river. Waaahhh wahhhh.
Switch carriers and be quiet please. Ffs
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Kinda looks like the Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone.
Posted on the site that compares excessive phone use to a crack cocaine addiction.
nice one!
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CrackBerry should give you a lifetime supply of cookies if it would turn out to be true lol.
To BB or not to BBBBBB...?
That, or a free Priv. Either way.. lol
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You'll get your bunch of (tracking) cookies every time you hit the site, lol... ;-P
• Ahoy, Privateers...! :-) •
First of the month!
Golfclap, sir.
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