BlackBerry announced the Priv Android Slider in October last year following which the phone was launched in India in January this year for Rs. 62,990. Let’s take a detailed look at the hardware and specifications of the first Android phone from BlackBerry in this photo gallery.
The Priv sports a 5.43-inch (2560 x 1440 pixels) Quad HD AMOLED dual-curved display at 540 PPI and comes with a Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection. It is powered by a Hexa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor with 600 MHz Adreno 418 GPU. The phone has a 4-row BlackBerry slider keyboard and the phone runs Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). It comes with a 3GB RAM, 32GB of internal memory that is expandable up to 2TB with microSD.
The BlackBerry logo is present at the center along with a 5MP front-facing camera with f/2.8 aperture and 1.7 micron pixel size. It also has the usual set or proximity and ambient light sensors.
There are three on screen touch buttons on the phone at the bottom of the display. The phone also comes with front facing speakers.
The USP of the BlackBerry Priv is its physical QWERTY keyboard that hides beneath the display. You will have to slide the touchscreen up to access the keyboard.
The phone has separate volume rocker buttons on the right side and a mute key is present in between.
Left side of the phone houses a power button. The phone measures 147 (184 opened) x 77.2 x 9.4mm and weighs 192 grams.
A micro USB port and a 3.5 mm audio jack are situated at the bottom.
A primary microphone, micro SD card and SIM card slot are present at the top.
At the back, the phone has a BlackBerry branding in the center while on top of the branding there is the 18MP camera with dual-tone Flash, OIS, PDAF, f/2.2 aperture, 6P lens, 4K video recording and 6DOF video stabilization.
Connectivity options on the phone include 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz and 5GHz) MIMO, Bluetooth 4.1 LE, GPS, NFC and microUSB with Slimport. The phone houses a 3,410 mAh built-in battery.
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