BlackBerry Priv Android smartphone with QWERTY keyboard launched in India for Rs. 62,990

BlackBerry Priv, the Canadian smartphone manufacturer’s first-ever Android-powered smartphone, has been launched in India today with a price tag of Rs. 62,990. The smartphone will be available in India from January 30 in Black colour from BlackBerry authorised resellers and stores as well as from Amazon.in e-retail store.

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The BlackBerry Priv runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, but the company says that it will soon start seeding Android 6.0 Marshmallow update. It features a 5.4-inch curved edge AMOLED display with QHD resolution, a physical slide-up QWERTY keyboard with gestures, a 64-bit hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor, 3GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot.

The Priv comes equipped with an 18-megapixel rear-facing camera with a 1/2.4-inch sensor and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. The primary camera is accompanied by optically stabilised Schneider-Kreuznach lens with ƒ/2.2 aperture, phase-detection autofocus mechanism, dual-tone (dual-LED) flash, and 4K video recording.

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In terms of connectivity features, the BlackBerry Priv comes with a single SIM card slot, and can connect to 4G LTE as well as 3G and 2G networks in India. There’s dual-band Wi-Fi ac/a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Bluetooth v4.1 (with L.E), GPS (with A-GPS and GLONASS), NFC, and microUSB v2.0 port (with USB OTG and SlimPort 4K). Yes, there’s no dual-SIM card slot for those who were wondering about it.