The
Blackberry Priv is looking really nice as noted in the article “BlackBerry
Priv Android Phone news and rumors”, published October 16, 2015 By Robert
Nazarian, Digitaltrends.
Not
a fan of Blackberry, but they posted this excellent video on their YouTube channel on Friday October
16th 2015 confirming its sliding action.
The
Blackberry Priv is Blackberry's first Google Android smartphone as describe in
my blog article
entitled “Blackberry
announces Blackberry Priv – The Venice slider is a Passport with a focus on
Privacy”.
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Announced
on Thursday September 24th 2015, there have been some awkward moments for
Blackberry CEO John Chen as noted in the article “The BlackBerry CEO’s
demo of his new phone is too awkward to watch”, published SEPTEMBER 28,
2015 by Robert Hackett, Fortune.
But
Blackberry's been going strong ever since then as they push the idea of
Blackberry Security on an Android device.
Blackberry Priv - No
Price for the smartphone coming on Black Friday
Still
no confirmed price albeit I suspect they'll launch this on Black Friday
November 27th 2015.
But
the specs are a little clearer now as noted in the article “Watch
the BlackBerry Priv's sliding keyboard in action”, published October 16,
2015 By Nick Statt, The Verge.
Folks,
this might be a solid competitor to the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus as
described in my blog article entitled “How
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus Keyboard Cover Nostalgia wins Applause” especially
as it has similar aesthetics.
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The
Blackberry Priv has dimensions of 147 x 77.2 x 9.4 mm (5.79 x 3.04 x 0.37 in)
and not too heavy at 192 g (6.77 oz), despite having a QWERTY keyboard and
mechanical sliding action. The 5.4 AMOLED capacitive touchscreen supports some
16M colors you’ll never be able to see. But that rich palette is displayed on a
1440 x 2560 pixels resolution screen with a 540 ppi pixel density).
It’s
running Google Android 5.1.1 on either a Dual-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A57 &
quad-core 1.44 GHz Cortex-A53, depending on where the Blackberry Priv is being
sold. The chipset support is a MSM8992 Snapdragon 808 and the graphics end is
handled by an Adreno 418. Supporting this fairly powerful processor is 3GB RAM
and 32GB or storage that can be expanded to an impressive 200GB via a micro SD
Card.
The
rear-facing camera is an 18 Megapixel deal with Schneider-Kreuznach optics.
It’s a great camera for taking moving video and still images as it has optical
image stabilization, autofocus and dual-LED (dual tone) flash and supports
2160p video at 30fps and lower HD quality 1080p video at 60fps.
Features
such as Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR and support for panorama
shots make the camera alone worthwhile. The front-facing Camera is a measly 2
Megapixel deal, so expect to be taking a lot of rear-facing camera selfies,
albeit it'll do video calling quite well.
The
usual bells and whistles such as GPS, Accelerometer, proximity, compass, SMS,
MMS, Email, Push Email, IM, BBM capped off with an HTML5 browser is all made
possible thanks to the 3410 mAh battery that gives this bad boy a very long
life before you have to reach for that charger.
Here's
hoping Blackberry sell like hot mongoose bread, despite no innovative features
and fairly mid-range specs. The huge external memory support as well as the QWERTY
keyboard screams support for a Blackberry smartwatch and a decent Tablet by
2016!
Here’s
the link:
BlackBerry Twitter feed: @BlackBerry
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