BlackBerry Gains as Heins Sees Q10 Sales in Tens of Millions

BlackBerry, the Canadian smartphone maker, climbed to its highest level in more than a month after Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins said he sees sales of its new Q10 device to be in the “tens of millions.”

“We have very, very good first signs already after the launch in the U.K.,” Heins said, referring to the device which features a keyboard, in an interview with Bloomberg Television today at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles. “This is going into the installed base of more than 70 million BlackBerry users so we have quite some expectations. We expect several tens of million of units,” he said.