T-Mobile Apologised By Offering Insulted BlackBerry Users A Special Deal.

T-Mobile apologised by offering insulted BlackBerry users a special deal after last week advertising a free upgrade to an iPhone 5s and calling it "a great offer for Blackberry customers".
The promotion annoyed some users, who took to Twitter to complain to T-Mobile.

The Special deal is this: Bring in your working BlackBerry handset to any T-Mobile store and get $200 off any phone there. If you're on T-Mobile and you want a new BlackBerry, you get an additional $50 off. If you're not on T-Mobile, then you still can trade in the phone, and your early termination fees will be taken care of.

T-Mobile confirmed that Blackberry devices were still available for people to buy and that other users of Blackberry devices could switch to the network if they wanted.

Blackberry was once a dominant player in the smartphone market but has lost ground to Apple, Samsung and other rivals.

It launched a new model, the Z10, in 2013 which it hoped would help revive its fortunes but disappointing sales and poor financial results led to a company shake-up.