{"id":18225,"date":"2014-05-13T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=18225"},"modified":"2014-05-13T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:12:50","slug":"blackberry-launches-low-cost-phone-for-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=18225","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry launches low-cost phone for Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">BlackBerry has launched a new low-cost phone &#8220;exclusively for Indonesia&#8221;, one of the few markets where it is still a key player.<\/p>\n<p>The BlackBerry Z3, Jakarta Edition will go on sale from 15 May for 2,199,000 Indonesia rupiah ($191; \u00a3113).<\/p>\n<p>It the first phone to be launched under new chief executive John Chen.<\/p>\n<p>Once a dominant player in the sector, BlackBerry has struggled in recent years amid increased competition from rivals such as Apple and Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has continued to enjoy success in Indonesia, making the country a key market for the firm.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_2\">&#8220;From conception to delivery, the BlackBerry Z3, Jakarta Edition was designed specifically with our Indonesian customers in mind,&#8221; Mr Chen<a href=\"http:\/\/press.blackberry.com\/press\/2014\/blackberry-officially-unveils-blackberry-z3--jakarta-edition.html\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.blackberry.com\/2014\/02\/blackberry-z3\/\">According to the firm<\/a>, the phone &#8211; which was first announced in February &#8211; also comes customised with local apps and content.<\/p>\n<p>The latest phone is also the first one to be launched after the firm agreed a five-year deal with Foxconn, the Taiwan-based maker of electronic products and components.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Blackberry reported a net loss of $5.9bn (\u00a33.5bn) for its latest financial year.<\/p>\n<p>However, it recorded a smaller-than-expected loss of $423m in the three months to 1 March, compared with a loss of $4.4bn in the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chen, who took charge of the struggling firm late last year, has said the firm was on &#8220;a path to returning to growth and profitability&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has launched a new low-cost phone &#8220;exclusively for Indonesia&#8221;, one of the few markets where it is still a key player. The BlackBerry Z3, Jakarta Edition will go on sale from 15 May for 2,199,000 Indonesia rupiah ($191; \u00a3113). It the first phone to be launched under new chief executive John Chen. Once a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18,627,443],"class_list":["post-18225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei","tag-ebenezer-asante","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}