The fact that BlackBerry is set to launch
the Leap in India next week is widely
known. If you've been waiting to find th
launch price, well, your wait is over.
NDTV Gadgets has learnt from its
sources that the smartphone will be
priced at Rs. 21,490.
BlackBerry Leap comes with a 5.0-inch
720p full-touch display with Gorilla
Glass 3 protection. It is powered by a
1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdrago
S4 MSM8960 chipset with Adreno 225
GPU and 2GB of RAM. BlackBerry Leap
packs 16GB of internal storage that is
expandable by up to 128GB via a
microSD card.
The BlackBerry OS 10.3.1-running
smartphone comes with an 8-megapixel
rear camera and a 2-megapixel front
camera. BlackBerry Leap is powered by a
2800mAh battery, which, the company
claims, can offer up to 25 hours of
'mixed usage'. The smartphone does not
support TDD-LTE Band 40 that's used b
current 4G networks in India, but is
compatible with FDD-LTE Band 3 that is
likely to be used by some operators in th
future.
BlackBerry Leap was unveiled at Mobile
World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona
earlier this year. The company said at th
time it plans to roll out two more
smartphones over the course of the next
months, both with a physical keyboard.
While the BlackBerry Leap is a mid-rang
smartphone, one of the smartphones
coming later this year is high-end
smartphone featuring "a dual curve all
touch display" with a keyboard behind a
slide. "We don't have a code name for it
but I call it The Slide," BlackBerry Chief
Executive John Chen told media in
Barcelona. "It will come some time this
year," he added without giving a specific
date.
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