TORONTO, May 3 (Reuters) - BlackBerry's newQ10 smartphone, which comes with the physical keyboard that manyBlackBerry fans prize, is selling well in both Canada andBritain, an industry analyst said on Friday.
The company this week introduced the Q10, the secondsmartphone to run the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, inCanada and Britain.
"Our checks indicate broad sell-outs with generally limitedstock otherwise," Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said in a noteto clients on Friday. "Based on our store checks, the BlackBerryQ10 has been selling extremely well and has been sold out orseeing limited availability in Toronto and across the U.K."
Jefferies, which has a "buy" rating on shares of BlackBerry,said its findings were based on checks with top mobile carriersand retailers in both countries including, Bell, Rogers andTelus in Canada, and Carphone Warehouse, Vodafone, and Orange inBritain.
BlackBerry is hoping that its new line of smartphones led bythe touchscreen Z10 device that it introduced earlier this year,will help claw back market share ceded to the likes of AppleInc's iPhone and Samsung Electronics Co's wildly popular line of Galaxy devices, powered by Google Inc's Android operating system.
Shares of BlackBerry were up 1.5 percent at $15.94 intrading before the morning bell in the United States on Friday. (Reporting by Euan Rocha; Editing by Grant McCool)