BlackBerry’s new Z10 smartphone is a record-setter — in two of the first markets it in which it debuted, anyway.

BlackBerry said on Wednesday that the launch of the Canadian and UK launches of the Z10 have been the best of any of its handsets debuts in those regions ever.

“In Canada, yesterday was the best day ever for the first day of a launch of a new BlackBerry smartphone. In fact, it was more than 50% better than any other launch day in our history in Canada,” BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said in a statement. “In the UK, we have seen close to three times our best performance ever for the first week of sales for a BlackBerry smartphone.”

The company declined to provide any hard sales numbers. And while we tried to dig up some old metrics with which to extrapolate from, we have so far been unsuccessful. If those numbers exist somewhere outside of Waterloo, we haven’t been able to find them.

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