Blackberry Priv

In their heyday, BlackBerry and Nokia were pioneers in smartphone technology, and many people would associated their crumbling to their stubbornness to steer away from Android. Both tech giants are now planning a resurrection and Android adoption is what they plan on.

BlackBerry will soon launch a peculiar slider phone BlackBerry Priv, which will be running Android 5.1 Lollipop, along with Google’s suit of Apps (No, it won’t be a forked version like Nokia X).

On the inside, BlackBerry Priv includes top of line features and specifications. There is a 5.4 inch display with 1440 x 2560 resolution, fueled by 1.8GHz quad core processor with 3GB RAM, 32GB internal storage and option for 128GB secondary SD card storage.

Reportedly, BlackBerry has included an 18MP rear camera sensor too. The slider is meant to provide QWERTY keyboard experience to long term BlackBerry fans. We do believe that BlackBerry makes some of the best smartphone keyboards, but is a slider the right way to do it? Won’t it make the device chunky and unbalanced? We will have to wait till the year end to find out.

This might be a classic case of ‘Too little too late’ or be the phone that brings long term loyalist return to the platform. We expect consumers will be able to buy BlackBerry Priv Online in India, sooner rather than later, since the Canadian manufacturer has a huge user base in India. When the device is officially launched, you can check back to see our updated analysis and also the BlackBerry Priv lowest price in India.

The BlackBerry Priv is a pretty outstanding attempt at an Android device, but that’s not the problem. I’m more worried about the fact that BlackBerry's introductory Android device costs a little too much for a last-ditch effort.BlackBerry offers something particularly extraordinary that’d make someone consider the Priv over the latest Samsung device. You can buy the phone directly from BlackBerry, but note that it doesn't work on Verizon or Sprint.

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