BlackBerry C-Series smartphone surfaces

BlackBerry released the Z30, the company’s latest flagship smartphone last week. BlackBerry said during their recent earnings that that have plans to release at least four devices even though there were job cuts. Now BBin.in has got hold of the first image of the C-Series smartphone. BlackBerry releasedthe Q5, an affordable variant of the Q10 in India recently, and the C-Series smartphone that has leaked would have a variant with a QWERTY keyboard.

According to the rumors, the phone is expected to come with a 4.2-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display. The BlackBerry Z10 also had a similar 4.2-inch display but the resolution was 1280 x 768. It is expected to be powered by quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and would also come in  LTE and HSPA variants, according to CrackBerry.

The leaked images shows the Verizon variant with LTE support, and the image leaked by N4BB shows the phone’s size compared with the iPhone 4S. It is expected to pack a 5-megapixel camera, and the specifications would change based on the variant. The phone looks similar to the design of the BlackBerry Z5 that surfaced back in June. The phone would of course run on BlackBerry 10.

Detailed specifications of the phone is not available yet. The C-Series smartphone is expected to be released sometime by Q1 2014.