BlackBerry loyalists rejoice! BlackBerry Q10, the second BB10 running smartphone from the Canadian smartphone-maker is now up for pre-order in India.

The new smart phone features BlackBerry’s ‘immensely loved’ physical QWERTY keypad, and thus, one can expect the BlackBerry Q10 to outperform the Z10 in terms of sales, as many of the current BlackBerry users who wish to upgrade their devices, prefer a physical QWERTY keypad over a touchscreen one. 

However, the pre-booking isn’t official, as the smart phone is up on pre order by a prominent online retailer, who says that the smart phone will be launched in India by 4th week of May. Though the price of the BlackBerry Q10 hasn’t been disclosed yet, but you can pay Rs.1,000 in advance, while the remaining amount can be paid after the official pricing details are announced. 

Talking of the specifications, the BlackBerry Q10 comes with a 3.1-inch 720 x 720 touchscreen display, amounting to a density of 330 pixels per inch. Under the hood, the smartphone gets a 1.5GHz dual-core processor paired with 2GB of RAM and PowerVR SGX544 GPU. The BlackBerry Q10 gets 16GB of on-board storage, which is expandable via a microSD card.

The BlackBerry 10 running smart phone houses a 2,100mAh battery. At the back, the smartphone gets an 8 megapixel camera, while at the front, it comes with a 2 megapixel shooter.

BlackBerry Q10, which was announced on January 30, went on sale in the UK last month, and if the initial reports are to believed, it has been well-received by the masses. One of UK’s popular retailers, Selfridges said that it sold thousands of the BlackBerry Q10 per hour, on the first day of it’s launch, and within just 6 hours, the smartphone went out of stock in each of it’s stores. 

Even the company believes that the BlackBerry Q10 gives them better chance (than the Z10) to re-capture their market share. Earlier  in an interview, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins had said,