BlackBerry on Thursday launched the Priv in India, its first Android smartphone. Priced at Rs. 62,990, the BlackBerry Priv will be available via Amazon India and offline retail stores from Saturday.
(Also see: BlackBerry Priv Full Specifications)
To recall, after going up for pre-orders
in October, the BlackBerry Priv went on sale in the US and Canada in
November
last year.
The Android 5.1.1
Lollipop-based BlackBerry Priv features a 5.4-inch QHD (1440x2560
pixels) Amoled display and sports a pixel density of 540ppi. It also
bears support for a glove mode. Under the hood, it is powered by a
Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 hexa-core processor (1.8GHz dual-core
Cortex-A57, and 1.44GHz quad-core Cortex-A53) clubbed with 3GB of RAM
and Adreno 418 GPU.
Bearing 32GB of built-in storage, the
BlackBerry also bears a hot-swappable microSD expansion slot (up to
2TB). An 18-megapixel rear camera is at the rear with optical image
stabilisation, PDAF, dual-LED flash, and 4K video recording. A
2-megapixel front-camera is also on board, and offers HD video
recording.
As for connectivity options, the BlackBerry Priv
support 4G LTE (with the US variant only showing support for India's
FDD-LTE Band 3), Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac with Direct functionality,
Bluetooth 4.1, 3.5mm audio jack, Micro-USB, NFC, and GPS/ A-GPS. The
smartphone bears an accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, time of
flight (ToF) sensor, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, altimeter,
and activity monitor. A massive 3410mAh battery backs the device, rated
to deliver up to 22.5 hours of 'mixed usage'
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