You may recall that BlackBerry had launched two new smartphones – BlackBerry Evolve and BlackBerry EvolveX in the month of August in India. BlackBerry EvolveX started selling in the same month and now the company has announced that BlackBerry Evolve will also be available exclusively on amazon.in from 10th October at Rs. 24,990.
To refreshen your memory, the BlackBerry Evolve sport a 5.99 inch, IPS LCD display with resolution of 1080 x 2160, 403 PPI and 18:9 aspect ratio with protection of Gorilla Glass 5. It is packed with a massive 4000mAh battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0. It has fingerprint sensor on the back and face unlock feature. It offers connectivity options of 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 5 LE, USB Type-C, USB 2.0, USB OTG, FM Radio.
This phone runs on Android 8.1 Oreo OS and comes loaded with BlackBerry Hub- a unified messaging inbox which conveniently combines emails, texts and messages from social media accounts including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, BBM, WhatsApp, Instagram and others. It is also secured with BlackBerry’s world-class device security implementation, using additional measures from the kernel level all the way up to the application layer of the devices, including DTEK by BlackBerry application.
On the imaging front, it is equipped with 13MP + 13MP dual rear cameras with dual-tone LED flash. It is mounted with 16MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture and flash.
The Evolve is powered by 1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 450 processor with Adreno 506 GPU. It comes with 4GB RAM and 64GB of internal storage which can be extended upto 256GB via microSD card.
On the design front, it has soft touch back panel and grade 7 aluminium frame which make it ultra-durable.