Blackberry Q5
Blackberry Q5 is a high quality Smartphone from Blackberry and currently a hot cake in Nigeria mobile market. It’s more like the lower version of Blackberry Q10 although they both feature same screen size and physical QWERTY keyboard, but the Blackberry Q5 is cheaper and clearly produced for those that are desiring to have a taste of the Q10 but couldn’t afford it.
Blackberry Q5 offers a 3.1 inch IPS LCD capacitive touch-display with a 720 X 720 pixels resolution and a physical QUWERTY keyboard. It comes with a 1080p HD video 5MP autofocus camera at the back and a front-facing 2MP camera with 720p HD video. Its rear camera features include: LED flash, touch focus, image stabilization, geo-tagging.
Blackberry Q5 runs the new Blackberry 10.1 OS, also upgradable to 10.2.1. The memory capacity of the Q5 is quite impressive; it has a 2GB RAM and 8GB internal memory extendable via memory card (up to 32GB).
Weighing 120 grams and measuring 120 X 60 X 10.8 mm, the Blackberry Q5 is considered a light and portable Smartphone. Users can also choose between black, white, pink, red and gray colors.
According to Blackberry, the Q5 non-removable Li-Ion 2180mAH battery can last up to 336 hours (3G) on standby and 12:30 hours on talktime.
Blackberry Q5 Specs
- SIM: Single micro-SIM
- 2G, 3G, 4G networks
- Display: 3.1 inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen (720 X 720 pixels)
- Physical QWERTY keyboard
- 5-megapixels camera with LED light, autofocus, geo-tagging, touch focus, images stabilization
- 2-megapixels front camera (720p HD video)
- OS: Blackberry 10.1 OS (upgradable to 10.2.1)
- Processor: 1.2GHz dual-core processor
- Memory capacity: 2GB RAM, 8GB ROM, 32GB memory card
- GPRS / EDGE
- 4G LTE: up to 100mbps | HSPA+: up to 42mbps
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
- Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, LE
- USB v2.0
- GPS: A-GPS
- Blackberry maps
- Java MIDP 2.1
- Battery: Non-removable Li-Ion 2180mAH battery
- Talktime: up to 12:30 hrs | Standby time: up to 336 hrs
- Music players: eAAc+, MP3, WAV, WMA
- Video players: H.263, H.264, XviD, MP4, WKV, WMV
- Weight: 120 grams
- Dimensions: 120 X 66 X 10.8 mm
- Colors: white, black, gray, pink, red
Blackberry Classic (Q20)
As the unique blackberry passport got into the mobile market, Blackberry followed it up with the introduction of blackberry classic, another premium smartphone operating on blackberry 10.3.1 OS. Blackberry classic (A.K.A Blackberry Q20).
For touchscreen or physical keyboard fans, the new BB classic got it all to meet up with your demands. It features a 3.5 inch touchscreen with a physical QWERTY keyboard and unlike other blackberry 10 smartphones, it brought back the menu, home, back and call buttons.
Blackberry Classic – Design And Body
The blackberry classic which can easily be misunderstood for a blackberry bold device comes with a much classic design as the name implies. At the front is a 3.5 inch touch-display with the all new four-row QWERTY keyboard. The home, back, menu, call buttons as seen on the image above were made available on blackberry classic.
Looking at the body/design, it revolves around a silver metal frame with curved edges. At the back top-left is a camera with LED-light followed by the “classic” inscription, then the blackberry logo at the middle (back). Also at the front top-right is located another camera. The SIM and SD card slot is to be found at the left side. At the base are located two loud speakers.
Blackberry classic (Q20) weighs 177grams, it’s not the very light type but it’s very much portable. It was released only in black, white colors.
Blackberry Classic – Hardware And Software
Blackberry classic (Q20) features a 3.5 inch 720p capacitive touchscreen with 294ppi pixel density protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It runs blackberry 10.3.1 OS and is smoothly powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz krait processor with 2GB of RAM size, 16GB built-in memory and an extension capacity of up to 128GB via SD card.
Blackberry classic supports a powerful 8-megapixel rear camera with LED-flash just as offered in blackberry z10. At the front you’ll find a 2-megapixel camera.
For connectivity you have GSM, 3G and LTE support, Bluetooth 4.0, SlimPort USB 2.0, NFC, GPS and YES it supports FM Radio as well. The battery capacity of BB classic is quite impressive, a Li-Ion 2515mAh battery (non-removable) which is expected to last up to 365 hours on standby (3G).
Blackberry Classic (Q20) Specs
- Weight: 177 grams
- Dimensions: 131 X 72.4 X 10.2mm
- Colors: white, black
- Display: 3.5 inch 720p capacitive touchscreen (294ppi)
- Protection: Corning Gorilla Glass 3
- Operating system: Blackberry 10.3.1
- Processor: Dual-core 1.5GHz krait
- Memory status: 2GB RAM, 16GB ROM, 128GB on microSD
- Back camera: 8MP, LED flash, HDR, Autofocus
- Front camera: 2MP
- SIM: Single Nano-SIM
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band WiFi
- Connectivity: GSM, 3G, Cat.4 LTE, NFC, Bluetooth v4.0 (A2DP, LE, EDR), MicroUSB v2.0, GPS with A-GPS
- FM Radio
- Java supported
- Audio & Video player
- 2 loud speakers, 3.5mm jack
- Battery: Non-removable 2515mAh Li-Ion battery
- Battery capacity: 365 hours (3G) on standby, 17 hours (3G) on talktime, 70 hours on music play