After various leaks and rumors, Chinese multinational electronics company Telephone Communication Limited (TCL) has today launched a much-anticipated smartphone at GITEX Technology Week in Dubai, dubbed as, “BlackBerry Motion” . It comes with a Full Touchscreen display with no Keyboard, unlike the previous model comes with BlackBerry KeyOne . This mid-range smartphone comes with customizable Smart Convenience Key, powered by Snapdragon 625 SoC and IP67 Certified ratings which means it is dust and water resistant.
The BlackBerry Motion smartphone comes in Black color and is priced at DH 1,699 (roughly USD$ 462 or Rs. 30,203) in UAE and 1,699 Riyal (roughly USD$ 453 or Rs. 29,587) in Saudi Arabia . This Samrtphone will be distributed by Axiom Telecom in the Middle East, and also available from Etisalat . For now, it will be up for pre-orders in UAE and KSA starting from today and will be rolled out to other markets later . There is no word on when the BlackBerry Motion smartphone will be made be available in India, but we expect that the device will be launching soon.
This BlackBerry Motion is mid-range Dual-SIM Standby smartphone sports a large 5.5-inch Full HD IPS touchscreen display with a screen resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels at 403 ppi pixel density to provides a stunning visual experience . The Screen of this display is protected by Scratch-resistant DragonTrail Glass protection . In terms of design-wise, it has hardened aluminum frame and soft-grip textured back.
Under the hood, the smartphone is powered by powerful Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 14nm chipset processor clocked speed at 2.0GHz coupled with Adreno 506 Graphics unit for smooth multi-tasking without lag free . The device is packaging with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of inbuilt onboard storage capacity . You can further expandable memory up to 2-tegabyte through microSD card slot . The BlackBerry Motion has IP67 Certifies ratings which means it is dust and water resistant.
Besides this, the BlackBerry Motion handset comes with a Fingerprint sensor on the home button to unlock the phone . On the Software front, it is running on Android v7.1 Nougat operating system like it’s predecessor,the company also said that the handset will be updated to Android 8.0 Oreo updates . Keeping the smartphone is ticking a 4,000 mAH Non-removable battery capacity with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 technology supports, which the company claims to charge up to 50% percent in just 40-minutes and delivers over 32-hours of battery life performance with moderate use.
For the photography department, the BlackBerry Motion smartphone s equipped wiith a single 12-megapixel primary rear camera comes with f/2.0 aperture lens, dual-tone LED Flash, Sony IMX378 sensor, 1.55µm pixel size, Phase Detection Autofocus (PDAF) to taking brilliiant photography . Apart from this, it also recording 4K video capabiliity with high resolution . While on the front, it bears a 8-megapixel front facing selfie sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens, 1.12µm pixel size to taking a good selfies and video chat as well.
Other connectivity features on this BlackBerry Motion smartphone are as Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4 & 5 GHz), Bluetooth v4.2, GPS with A-GPS/GLONASS, NFC, USB Type-C, Dual SIM, 4G LTE network support . It’s physical measurement be 155.7 mm x 75.4 mm x 8.13 mm.
BlackBerry Motion Smartphone Technical Specifications:
- IP67 Certified Ratings – Water and Dust Resistant
- SIM Type – Dual SIM with 4G LTE Support
- Display – 5.5-inch Full HD IPS display
- Resolution – 1920 x 1080 pixels
- Protection – Scratch-resistant DragonTrail Glass protection
- Operating System – Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS
- Processor – 2.0GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 625 14nm SoC
- Graphics Unit – Adreno 506 GPU
- RAM – 4GB RAM
- ROM – 32GB internal storage capacity
- Expansion Slot – MicroSD card support up to 2TB
- Rear Camera – 12MP primary rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, dual-tone LED Flash, Sony IMX378 sensor
- Front Camera – 8MP front Selfie sensor with f/2.2 aperture
- Sensor – Fingerprint sensor
- Battery – 4,000 mAH Built-in battery with Quick Charge 3.0