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Vodafone UK bringing Blackberry Leap to their business customers

Blackberry Leap

 

We’ve just had confirmation from Vodafone UK that the Blackberry Leap will be available from them, for their business customers. We will bring you more news as and when we get it, including pricing and availability.

What’s the Blackberry Leap you ask? This was the surprise announcement that, to be fair, did shock a lot of people. Everyone though Blackberry was pulling the plug on hardware, focusing on software, and boom, they announce the Leap. A phone focusing on startups, the young, the go-getters. Specs are modest, and nothing to go crazy about, but so is the supposed price.

Following is a quick run down on the specs:

Size

  • Height 144 mm / 5.67 in
  • Width 72.8 mm / 2.87 in
  • Depth 9.5 mm / 0.37 in

Weight

  • 170 g / 6.0 oz

Navigation

  • All-touch screen, with intuitive gesture based navigation

Keyboard

  • On screen BlackBerry® Keyboard (portrait/landscape), featuring contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction and a personalized learning engine that gets to know the way you type

Dedicated keys

  • Volume Up/Down, Mute, Lock (for Power On/Off)

Display

Resolution

  • 294 PPI
  • 1280 x 720 resolution
  • 24-bit colour depth

Screen size

  • 5″ diagonal
  • 16:9 aspect ratio

OS & desktop software

Operating system

  • BlackBerry 10 OS

Desktop software

  • BlackBerry® Blend™ software to bring the power of your BlackBerry smartphone to your computer and tablet
  • BlackBerry® Link software for your computer to enable synchronization of data and media

Performance

Processor

  • Qualcomm MSM 8960 1.5 GHz

Memory

  • 2 GB RAM
  • 16 GB Flash

Expandable memory

  • Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD memory card (Up to 128 GB)

USB ports

  • Micro USB 2.0 high speed port—allows charging and data synchronization of the device with a USB cable

Power

Battery

  • 2800 mAH (minimum) non-removable Lithium Ion battery

Battery life1

  • Up to 25 hours mixed use1
  • Up to 12 hours GSM talk time
  • Up to 15 days GSM standby time
  • Up to 17 hours UMTS talk time
  • Up to 16.5 days UMTS standby time
  • Up to 80 hours audio playback
  • Up to 9.5 hours video playback

Camera & video

Rear camera

  • 8 megapixel auto-focus camera
  • Flash, continuous and touch to focus
  • Video image stabilization
  • 5x digital zoom
  • 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps
  • 2DOF video stabilization

Front camera

  • 2 megapixel fixed-focus camera
  • 720p HD video recording
  • 3x digital zoom

Multimedia

Image formats

  • BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, SGI, SVG, TSG, TIF, WBMP

Audio & video formats

  • AAC, AMR, AWB, FLAC, M4A, MKA, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, 3GP, 3GP2, ASF, AVI, F4V, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG4, WMV

Audio & video encoding/decoding

  • H.264, MPEG-3, H.263, AAC-LC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WMA 9/10, VC-1, VP6, PCM, LPCM, MPEG-2, FLAC, GSM, Vorbis, QCELP, MJPEG

Apps

Pre-loaded apps

  • Multimedia: Music, Videos, Pictures, Camera, Picture Editor, Story Maker
  • Productivity: BlackBerry Hub (Email and Social Messaging), BlackBerry Assistant, Universal Search, Calendar, Contacts, Browser, Text Messaging, Clock, Calculator, Documents To Go™, File Manager, Adobe® Reader, BlackBerry® Remember (memos/tasks), Box™, Dropbox™, Evernote®
  • Other: Amazon Appstore, Phone, BBM®(Video and Voice), BlackBerry® World®, Facebook®2, Twitter®2, LinkedIn®2, foursquare®, YouTube®, Weather, Maps/Navigation, Setup, Help, Tutorials

Security

  • Password protection, screen lock, and sleep mode

Alerts & notifications

  • Tone
  • Vibrate
  • On-screen or multi-color LED indicator
  • (Notification options are user configurable)

Voice input/output

  • Dual microphone for noise cancellation (receiver)
  • Hands-free headset capable
  • Bluetooth® headset capable
  • Integrated hands-free speakerphone

Network & connectivity

Network bands

  • North America
  • FD-LTE: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 13, 17 (2100/1900/AWS/850/2600/700 MHz)
  • HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5/6 (2100/1900/AWS/850 MHz)
  • Dual Carrier 42 HSPA support
  • Quad Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 2, 3, 5, 8 (1900,1800,850,900 MHz)
  • Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific
  • FD-LTE: 1, 3, 7, 8, 20 (2100/1800/2600/900/800 MHz)
  • HSPA+ 1, 2, 5/6, 8 (2100/1900/850/900 MHz)
  • Dual Carrier 42 HSPA support
  • Quad Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 2, 3, 5, 8 (1900,1800,850,900 MHz)

Wi-Fi®

  • 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz
  • 4G Mobile Hotspot
  • Video out via Wi-Fi Display / Miracast

FM Radio

  • FM Radio receive (headset as antenna)

Bluetooth®

  • Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE) and EDR

GPS

  • Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS
  • Preloaded with BlackBerry® Maps application
  • Support for User Plane and Control Plane GPS

Sensors

  • Accelerometer
  • Proximity
  • Ambient light

Accessibility

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