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Mar 03, 2015,01:17 AM
 



BlackBerry Leap Specifications

5"
HD touch display
8MP
Rear camera
16GB
Internal storage
25HRS
battery life1
1280 x 720 HD resolution, 294 PPI
BlackBerry® 10 operating system
1080p HD video recording at 30 fps
MicroSD card support up to 128GB
Leap

Design

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

Display

Screen size

  • 5" diagonal
  • 16:9 aspect ratio

Resolution

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

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

USB ports

Power

Battery

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

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

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

Bluetooth®

GPS

Sensors

  • Accelerometer
  • Proximity
  • Ambient light

Accessibility

  • BlackBerry® Magnify, for customers with partial vision 
  • Face-to-face video chat with BBM® Video
  • Voice Control for sending messages, placing calls, search and more
  • Adjustable screen brightness, scalable fonts
  • Teletypewriter (TTY) Support - 
  • BlackBerry Leap side
  1. 1

    25 hours battery life is based on heavy usage scenario on a power user profile. Many factors affect battery life including but not limited to network, transmission environment, battery age, usage, location software and feature configuration

  2. 2

    Availability of Location Based Services will vary by carrier.

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 By: DRMW : March 2nd, 2015-00:03
The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge has been announced. Official global release day is April 10. smgmb.us 8k0'" width="470" height="470" style="border: 0px; height: auto; min-height: 100%; position: relative; width: 470px;"> Galaxy S6/ Galaxy S6 Edge Networ...  
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NEW: SanDisk Ultra 200GB microSDXC UHS-1 card

 
 By: DRMW : March 2nd, 2015-00:04
SanDisk Unveils the World’s Highest Capacity microSD™ Card For the first time ever consumers can hold an unprecedented 20 hours of Full HD video1 on a fingernail-sized memory card MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, March 1, 2015 – SanDisk Corporation (NASD...  
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Not so long ago...

 
 By: Ares501 - Mr Green : March 2nd, 2015-03:47
or was it that long ago ;) I was the main man with my 2GB HDD :) hearing comments like "Why would anyone buy such big disk" "What will you put on it..... it is too much" "What on earth is this for? Keeping NASA data" "To expensive and not neccessay at all... 
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capacity and storage...

 
 By: DRMW : March 2nd, 2015-10:51
The CF card for my first digial camera was 256mb! LOL. Both storage and capacity has improved over the years. I just picked up the Sandisk Extreme Pro microSD for my Galaxy Note Edge, it does 4K video so I need the faster cards. I'll post some pics if you... 
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Please do! [nt]

 
 By: Ares501 - Mr Green : March 2nd, 2015-11:43
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ok, will do shortly. [nt]

 
 By: DRMW : March 2nd, 2015-12:18
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$81,000 for 2.5GB in 1980....and it filled a room...!!!

 
 By: Andy : March 2nd, 2015-12:46
IBM 3380 Disk System Hard disks are an essential part of the computer revolution, allowing fast, random access to large amounts of data. IBM announced its most successful mainframe hard disk (what IBM called a “Direct Access Storage Device (DASD)” in June...  
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LOL! [nt]

 
 By: DRMW : March 2nd, 2015-12:54
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NEW: Blackberry LEAP

 
 By: DRMW : March 3rd, 2015-01:17
BlackBerry Leap Specifications 5" HD touch display 8 MP Rear camera 16 GB Internal storage 25 HRS battery life 1 1280 x 720 HD resolution, 294 PPI BlackBerry ® 10 operating system 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps MicroSD card support up to 128GB Design ...  
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Always difficult to glean much from these glossy promotional vids

 
 By: Avatar : March 4th, 2015-09:54
It looks like it will be a bit more solidly built than previous generations, which is good. It will also be interesting to see how the camera performs in this new version.
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re: always

 
 By: DRMW : March 4th, 2015-13:35
Hello Avatar, Agree, it's always good to see these products first hand to see if it fits your needs. A few things to note about the new S6 and S6 Edge, they took out the removeable battery and it's now a glass back. You can't use microSD cards either. :( ... 
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There hasn't really been a viable alternative to the iphone in terms of build quality

 
 By: Avatar : March 6th, 2015-14:44
This phone looks like it could well at least come close to the build standards that Apple have attained with the iphone. Having said that, the omission of a Micro SD slot is annoying. I suppose I can live without a removable battery, though it is handy be... 
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re: alternative

 
 By: DRMW : March 7th, 2015-00:01
You're right, they concentrated a lot on the camera. Pre-orders for the US is April so I guess we'll see how good it is in a month or two. HAGWE Avatar. -MW
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Now I'm beginning to covet one of these new phones

 
 By: Avatar : March 11th, 2015-20:52
The quality of cameras on smartphones still amazes me, especially for close up shots. I reach for my phone a lot of the time in preference to my DSLR such is the apparent ease with which it takes pictures of close up objects.
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re: new phone

 
 By: DRMW : March 12th, 2015-00:01
I was in Vegas and with my Galaxy Note Edge caught some great 4K video, pics in low light came out pretty good too. Was really surprised how good it came out. Hard part is figuring how to process the 4K but I guess learning is always fun. Would you go And... 
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You've thrown a cat among the pigeons

 
 By: Avatar : March 12th, 2015-01:39
Prior to seeing the S6, I'd have said that I'd have preferred the iphone, but now probably the Samsung is the favourite. Massive fan of Android and an equally big fan of the Samsung Galaxy, notwithstanding the faux chrome and slightly chinzty build qualit... 
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HTC and LG has some cool phones

 
 By: DRMW : March 12th, 2015-10:38
I considered the Nexus 6, always wanted to try one. Now I can't wait for CES in 2016! :) -MW
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The S6 Edge looks great

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : March 5th, 2015-12:41
I fooled around with the original Edge at a store before and it seemed cool, but not cool enough for me to want to get it. Maybe having double curved edges will now though. Cheers, Anthony
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My Galaxy Note Edge is the best phone I have used so far...

 
 By: DRMW : March 5th, 2015-14:19
I really like my Galaxy Note Edge and the Note 4 has been getting great reviews. Hopefully Samsung can get the full potential out of the Edge screens. While some like the glass back I think they should have kept the 2 features that the Galaxy line always ... 
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Has the curved edge been useful?

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : March 5th, 2015-14:54
If so, what do u use it for? - AT
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re: curved edge

 
 By: DRMW : March 6th, 2015-00:33
The 'Night Clock' mode on the Edge screen has been useful. You can set it for up to 12 hours periods to do a low lit display that shows the weather, clock, notifications, and other info. I set it for night time so when glance over the nightstand it's easy... 
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Ok cool thanks for the info [nt]

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : March 6th, 2015-05:45
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Galaxy S6 on T-Mobile

 
 By: DRMW : March 25th, 2015-11:40
Get 1 year of Netflix on us. When you buy the powerful new Samsung Galaxy S® 6 and Galaxy S® 6 edge from T-Mobile you get 1 year of Netflix on us with access to their entire streaming library – a $100+ value! Want the Galaxy S® 6 from T-Mobile, but trappe...  
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