14 DAY TRIAL // BlackBerry Z30 has yet to make its debut at major carriers across the globe, but at least one authorized retailer is now offering the unlocked version of the newly launched smartphone.
BerryReview reports that the Z30 is now up for grabs at Selfridges for no less than £529 ($855 / €635) outright. Probably in order to make sure that it will sell all Z30 units in stock, Selfridges is offering international shipping to customers.
It looks like Selfridges has managed to score another exclusivity deal with BlackBerry, though this time it’s less likely to be able to sell the Z30 too fast.
For those unaware, the UK-based retailer had a 3-day exclusivity over BlackBerry Q10 and managed to sell all units in less than 2 hours.
BlackBerry Z30 is expected to go on sale at additional major carriers and retailers in the UK in the coming days. We suspect that BlackBerry will have a hard time selling the Z30 due to its high price, but this should be the least of its concerns.
The Canadian company has recently agreed on an acquisition offer by Fairfax Financial consortium, which should be signed by November 4.
The Z30 will not be the company’s last smartphone, as BlackBerry has already confirmed plans to launch four new devices in the coming months.
The sequel to BlackBerry Z10, the Z30 boasts a much larger 5-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display that supports HD (720 x 1280 pixels) resolution and 294 ppi (pixel density).
The smartphone is equipped with a powerful enough 1.7 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, an Adreno 320 graphics processing unit and 2GB of RAM.
There’s also an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with autofocus, LED flash and full HD (1080p) video recording, as well as secondary 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls. The Z30 comes packed with 16GB of internal memory and microSD card slot for storage expansion (up to 64GB).