Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) released a new phone at its BlackBerry Live event. The handset named the Q5 that is a mid-end smartphone with both a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard. The handset is planned to released for emerging markets. It will be available in different color options red, white, black and pink.

As the features of the new BlackBerry Q5 is concern, it has a classic BlackBerry keyboard with separate keys that has been reengineered as well as designed to facilitate user to type fast, precisely and with the least amount of effort with Instant Action shortcuts through this user can type to perform tasks faster. The BlackBerry Q5 smartphone provides you the best of both worlds a classic QWERTY keyboard for optimized communications and a 3.1-inch touch screen for all the rest.

The new BlackBerry Q5 smartphone will be accessible in chosen markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific region and Latin America, with anticipated availability beginning in July.

According to previous rumors, the display of the Q5 has resolution of 720 x 720 pixels. That makes it a Q10 double as far as display is concerned. As the camera will be a 5 megapixel along with what appears like an LED flash. Although there’s no state of the resolution of the front-facing camera, it is fairly obvious from leaked pictures that there will be one. The Q5 have 2GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage and a non-removable 1800mAh battery.

BlackBerry has as well released at the event that its operating system, called BlackBerry 10 now has over 1,20,000 apps. This is fairly a figure for such a young OS. BB10 was released back in January with great fanfare along the BlackBerry flagship device the Z10.