T-Mobile, Thursday announced a new partnership with Blackberry, bringing together the productivity and security of the BlackBerry Classic smartphone and T-Mobile’s 'un-carrier' service for Business customers. The renewed partnership marks a new era of relationhip between the two companies after they went on separate ways two years back.
Puzzle = solved! When customers speak, @TMobile and @Blackberry listen. The #BlackBerryClassic is going #uncarrier! http://t.co/Sfp2FQwf2t
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) May 7, 2015
According to T-Mobile, the phone would be available online starting May 13 and at participating U.S. T-Mobile stores starting May 15th. Under T-Mobile's installment plan, the BlackBerry Classic will sell for $0 down and $18.33 a month for 24 months.
The BlackBerry Classic is built to meet the needs of productive people who appreciate the speed and accuracy that can be found with a physical QWERTY keyboard and features such as a fast browser and up to 22 hours of battery power.
John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile
People who love BlackBerry smartphones and want to use one on America’s fastest nationwide 4G LTE network now have that choice. Bringing BlackBerry into our device line-up now also stokes Un-carrier 9.0, which is all about bringing the Un-carrier revolution to business.
John Chen, BlackBerry Executive Chairman and CEO
BlackBerry is proud to partner with T-Mobile once again to offer the world’s most secure and reliable mobile products and services that encourage productivity − whether they are individual users making the most of their day with the BlackBerry Classic, or an enterprise seeking to manage thousands of devices.
