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BlackBerry Leap Review

Score: 61.9 / 100

BlackBerry Leap is a fascinating BlackBerry device released in March 2015, coming with a big 5 inches screen, an extremely powerful Dual-Core processing unit ticking at 1.5 gigahertz, and 2 cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back side camera and a 2 MP front-facing camera.

This phone has an amazing design, with a thickness of just 0.37 inches. Although this cellphone is only 5.67" long and 2.87 inches wide, it manages to pack a 5 inches display. Blackberry made this phoneavailable just in color black. It appears that Blackberry didn't care much about the weight in this 6 oz cellphone.

Blackberry designed the BlackBerry Leap with a good level 5" display, and a resolution of 1280 x 720 (HD), which makes everything look vivid.

Blackberry decided to design this cellphone using a high speed 1500 MHz Dual-Core processor, packed into the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960 system chip and a big 2 GB of RAM. Handling graphic calculations, this phone also counts with a 400 MHz Adreno 225 GPU. A good point of this cellphone is its 16 GB quite big internal storage memory and an external memory card slot, which allows you to store a couple hundred apps and games without any problem.

This cellphone is equipped with two cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 2 mega-pixels front-facing camera. It is capable of capturing Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 frames per second. Additionally, this cellphone's camera also counts with a couple of good features like auto-focus, flash, face detection shooting, digital image stabilization and geo tagging.

This cellphone includes wi-fi connection (and it can be shared with other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) high performance connectivity and also HSPA+ data connection, a lower speed 4G type and the fastest 3G internet connection, over HSDPA and EDGE technologies. This phone works with a SIM card to connect to GSM networks.

This cellphone also comes with a handful of cool characteristics as Bluetooth (4.0, EDR), GPS and FM Radio, and some sensors likeLight Sensor, Proximity Sensor and Accelerometer.

This cellphone comes with a big capacity 2800 mAh Li-Ion non-replaceable battery that can keep this device running for many hours and even reach the end of the day without charging it. An issue to take into consideration is that the BlackBerry Leap's battery isn't replaceable so you can't change it when it starts losing capacity, whereas with such a huge battery size you will probably buy a new cellphone before it becomes an issue.

Blackberry is selling the BlackBerry Leap for 245 dollars, which is very expensive for a phone this level. No matter if you want a device for work, are looking for a cellphone to mostly use social networks, you love taking pictures or will use it to play games, you will definitely be very happy with this device.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Blackberry
Operating System (OS):BlackBerry 10
Dimensions:5.67 x 2.87 x 0.37 inchesMetric14.4 x 7.29 x 0.94 cmImperial
Weight:6.00 ouncesMetric170.1 gImperial
Colors:Black
Release date:2015-03-03
Price:$ 245.00

Display

Size:5 inchesMetric12.7 cmImperial
Resolution:720 x 1280 pixels (HD)
Pixel density:294 pixels per inchMetric115.75 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960
Processor:Krait (Dual-Core 1500 MHz)
RAM Memory:2 GB
Graphics Processor:Adreno 225 (400 MHz)
Internal Memory:16 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 128 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li-Ion
Removable:No
Capacity:2800 mAh

Camera

Back camera:8 megapixels
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:2 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Digital Image Stabilization, Face Detection Shooting and Geo Tagging

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:800 (band 20), 900 (band 8), 1800 (band 3), 2100 (band 1), 2600 (band 7)
UMTS Bands:850, 900, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0, EDR
GPS:Yes
Radio:FM Radio
Sensors:Accelerometer, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor