The company this week unveiled Q10, second smartphone to run the new BlackBerry 10 operating system in Canada and the United Kingdom.
"Our checks indicate the broad sell-usually with limited headroom otherwise," Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said in a note to clients on Friday. "Based on our checks shops, BlackBerry Q10 has been selling very well, and has been sold or seeing limited in Toronto across the UK "
Jeffries, who has a "buy" rating on shares of BlackBerry, said its findings were based on a test with top mobile operators and retailers in both countries, including, Bell, Rogers and Telus in Canada, and Carphone Warehouse, Vodafone, UK and orange.
BlackBerry hopes that its new line of smartphones with touch led Z10 device, which he introduced at the beginning of this year, will help to claw back market share lost to the likes of iPhone Apple Inc and wildly popular line of Samsung Electronics Co devices in the Galaxy, powered by Google Inc,
The operating system Android. BlackBerry shares were up 1.5 percent at $ 15.94 in morning trading before ringing in the U.S. on Friday.
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