BlackBerry Q5 launched for Rs 24,999, in stores from 20 July

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BlackBerry has launched its mid-range, BlackBerry Q5 for Rs 24,999 and it will be available from authorised retailers from 20 July (Saturday).

The device has got a lot riding on it—the Q5 is BlackBerry’s built-for-developing-markets BlackBerry 10 smartphone, and India is among the largest developing markets. Ergo, the Q5 has its work cut out in India.

The Q5, which sports a physical QWERTY keyboard, has been eagerly awaited by BlackBerry fans in India since the premium full-touch BlackBerry Z10, and the recently launched premium QWERTY Q10, whose chassis is carved out of a block of cold-forged steel and where premium materials are used, were both priced at the highest end of the market in India. This left BlackBerry users who wanted to move to BlackBerry 10, but at an affordable price, with no options.

The BlackBerry Q5 may be a mid-range phone that feels solid though it is made primarily of plastic, unlike the metal-heavy Q10, but it shares many of its innards, especially the critical parts, with its premium sibling, the Q10. The display on both the BlackBerry QWERTY siblings are 3.1-inch screens with 720 x 720 resolution at 329 pixels per inch (PPI), though the Q5 being cheaper sports a LCD TFT panel as opposed to the Q10’s gorgeous Super AMOLED. The siblings also share the same processor, the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 with 1.5 GHz dual-core CPUs.



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