BlackBerry is on the ropes. Once the darling of the smartphone world, these days the company has been long displaced by upstarts like Apple and Google. The new BlackBerry Priv won't change that, but it's aimed at bringing the BlackBerry brand back into the limelight. And for BlackBerry apostates and the physical keyboard-curious, it'll have to. Dalliances with the Amazon app store's subset of the Android ecosystem failed to light a fire for BlackBerry, so there's a chance this might be the last gasp for the storied smartphone manufacturer.
| Body |
Dimensions |
147 x 77.2 x 9.4 mm (5.79 x 3.04 x 0.37 in) |
| Weight |
192 g (6.77 oz) |
| Keyboard |
QWERTY |
| Build |
Plastic body |
| SIM |
Nano-SIM |
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- Capacitive touch 4-row BlackBerry keyboard |
| Display |
Type |
AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
| Size |
5.4 inches, 81.6 cm2 (~71.9% screen-to-body ratio) |
| Resolution |
1440 x 2560 pixels, 16:9 ratio (~540 ppi density) |
| Multitouch |
Yes, up to 10 fingers |
| Protection |
Corning Gorilla Glass 4 |
| |
- Curved edge screen |
| Platform |
OS |
Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop), upgradable to 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) |
| Chipset |
Qualcomm MSM8992 Snapdragon 808 |
| CPU |
Hexa-core (4x1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 & 2x1.8 GHz Cortex-A57) |
| GPU |
Adreno 418 |
| Main Camera |
Single |
18 MP, f/2.2, 27mm (wide), 1/2.4", OIS PDAF |
| Features |
Schneider-Kreuznach optics, dual-LED dual-tone flash, HDR, panorama |
| Video |
2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps |
| Comms |
WLAN |
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
| Bluetooth |
4.1, A2DP, EDR, LE |
| GPS |
Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS |
| NFC |
Yes |
| Radio |
No |
| USB |
microUSB 2.0 (SlimPort 4K) |
| Features |
Sensors |
Accelerometer, altimeter, gyro, ToF proximity, compass |
| Messaging |
SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM, BBM |
| Browser |
HTML5 |
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- Fast battery charging (Quick Charge 2.0)
- Qi/PMA wireless charging (STV100-1, STV100-2, STV100-5, STV100-6)
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player
- MP4/H.264 player
- Photo/video editor
- Document viewer |
