Blackberry 10 - not for Japan

Blackberry will not sell its new smartphones in Japan. “Japan is not important for the BlackBerry market, and at the moment we do not plan to launch BlackBerry 10 there,” the company representative said in comments for Allthingsd.

The share of Blackberry in the Japanese smartphone market has now fallen from 5% to 0.3%, and the company cannot afford the expensive adaptation of the system for the Japanese language. Blackberry current Japanese users will continue to provide technical support.