Inside BlackBerry's last-ditch plan to win you back with Android - CNET

Better late than never?

""If this doesn't resonate with users, there's not much else they can do," said Chris Hazelton, an analyst at 451 Research. 

Chen has already set the stakes, saying, repeatedly, that he'll dump the smartphone business if it doesn't turn a profit. While BlackBerry doesn't break out earnings from its devices business, the company lost more than $6 billion in the last two and a half years. To move into the black, BlackBerry will have to sell 5 million smartphones next year. That's a tall order considering it sold just 800,000 last quarter, less than half as many it sold a year ago."

Inside BlackBerry's last-ditch plan to win you back with Android - CNET