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BlackBerry’s new Q5 smartphone is available for purchase in Canada starting today.

If you weren’t quite swayed by the high-end pricing of the BlackBerry Q10 – the company’s first QWERTY keyboard phone with BlackBerry 10 – the mid-tier Q5 is its less expensive and less powerful sibling. It boasts a similar look and feel, as well as the company’s iconic physical keys.

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It can be bought at Bell, Fido, Koodo, Sasktel, TELUS, and Virgin Mobile Canada stores, as well as online. Rogers currently has no plans to carry the device. Third party retailers, including Future Shop and Best Buy, are selling the Q5 as well.

Koodo, Telus, Bell and Virgin have each priced the Q5 at around $50 on a two-year contract. Koodoo will sell the device outright for $350, while Bell, Virgin and Telus have set a no-term price of $399.

Virgin Mobile customers will have exclusive access to the BlackBerry Q5 in red. All other carriers will sell the device in either white or black.