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BlackBerry shares pare gains, up 3.3% to US$9.35 as earnings conference call ends

Q20 (or” The Classic”) smartphone with physical keyboard should be ready for Q1, says CEO John Chen

A renewed run of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 (a BB7 device) is in the works

Touchscreen Z3 smartphone will be rolled out around the world after its Indonesia launch

BlackBerry posted Q4 loss of 8¢ a share excluding one-time charges, beating analysts’ estimates of 57¢ loss

Revenue was $976-million, down 64% from year before and below forecasts of US$1.11-billion

About 2.3M of the 3.4M BlackBerry smartphones sold through to end users were running on older BB7 software

BlackBerry Ltd reported a smaller quarterly loss than analysts expected early Friday morning, helped by cost-cutting measures put in place by chief executive John Chen.

The latest earnings report comes as Mr. Chen continues his efforts to jumpstart the embattled technology company and return it to its enterprise roots.

Since BlackBerry last reported financial results in late December, Mr. Chen has unveiled plans on how to generate revenue from BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), reached an agreement to sell most of its Canadian real estate holdings and unveiled a flagship smartphone that returns to the company’s legacy physical trackpad and menu buttons.

Read our coverage and analysis of BlackBerry’s earnings report below.