Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
Blackberry launch Evolve and Evolve X

Blackberry has launched two new smartphones – Evolve and BlackBerry Evolve X in India. Optiemus Infracom, a Noida based company which is the manufacturer for BlackBerry phones in India, announced two new devices at an event in Delhi.

Blackberry Evolve will have a starting price of Rs 24990 and Evolve X will have a starting price of Rs 34,990. Both the phones are an Amazon India exclusive and sales for Blackberry Evolve would be beginning at the end of August, while Evolve X will go on sale at the end of September 2018.

While both the Blackberry models would have a few similarities -5.99-inch IPS LCD with the same 1080 x 2160 resolution, which comes to 403 PPI. The phones also sport the newer 18:9 aspect ratio with thinner side bezels, though they have a top and bottom bezel as well. Evolve and Evolve X also come with a big 4000 mAh battery, and the charger is compatible with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 as well

The Blackberry Evolve will be run by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 octa-core processor clocked at 1.8 GHz and comes with 4GB RAM+64GB ROM with a microSD slot. It has a 13MP+13MP rear camera combination with auto-focus, dual-tone LED flash and HDR mode and the front camera is a 16MP with fixed focus and selfie flash. BlackBerry Evolve has sensors of fingerprint, accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, proximity and Ambient Light. It also a face unlock feature.

BlackBerry Evolve X is run by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 octa-core processor and has 6GB RAM coupled with a 64GB storage. The rear camera is 12MP+13MP with auto-focus, dual-tone LED flash. The front camera is similar to the BlackBerry Evolve, which is 16MP with a selfie flash. However, the Evolve Xhas wireless charging and comes with a USB Type-C port. Sensors on the list are fingerprint, accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, proximity and Ambient Light. The Evolve X does not have face unlock feature.

Both phones run on Google’s Android mobile OS. The company says the Evolve and Evolve X are the most secure Android phones on the market. The BlackBerry Evolve series comes with just the touchscreen display, and there is no QWERTY keypad like on the BlackBerry Key2 smartphone.

Both Blackberry Evolve and Evolve X will come with Reliance Jio cashback offer of Rs 3,950 and 5 per cent instant cashback for ICICI bank credit card EMI transactions. Evolve will cost Rs 24,990 and Evolve X will cost Rs 34,990.

By Manan Dharamshi

Bachelors in Journalism, Psychology and English from Christ University. Interested in covering Sports, Technology, Automobiles and Entertainment.

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