Blackberry Z3 review, release date: Specs of the newly-launched $190 Blackberry Z3 includes a 5-inch display with 540 x 960 display, dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm MSM8230 processor and 1.1MP front-facing camera, 8GB of storage, a MicroSD slot, and a 1080P HD video recording. It’s powered by 2,500 mAH battery that should give it a 15.5 hours of talk-time.

According to ZDNet, the Blackberry Z3 has been launched exclusively for the Indonesian market. The device, as expected, it aimed at emerging markets. Blackberry has indicated that it will go on sale in India in the near future.

Reuters reported that the lower-end Z3 smartphone is being built under partnership with FIH Mobile, the Hong Kong-licensed unit of Taiwanese electronics company Foxconn Technology Ltd.

The success of the new handset could well be the deciding factor of Blackberry’s tie-up with the contract manufacturing giant and its own future in smartphones. The Z3 Jakarta Edition will be available in store shelves May 15.

The Blackberry Z3 is the first phone to be launched by Blackberry since it’s new CEO John Chen took office late last year. Aside from Indonesia and India, the Z3 will soon be available in six other countries including the Philippines, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia.

The Canadian handset maker said that it hopes the device will help it gain some of the collapse in its market share, which has eaten by Apple’s iPhone, Samsung’s Galaxy, Google’s Android operating system, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform.

“If the market doesn’t receive this product well, then we definitely have some negative issues to deal with,” says the company’s CEO Mr. Chen at the launch of the Z3 at Jakarta’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Blackberry declared that it does not have an official sales target for the device, but Chen noted that he expects to sell millions of Z3 handsets around the world.