Let's see why the BlackBerry Leap is being hailed as one of the best 'executive's phone'...
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BlackBerry smartphones have always been helpful for businessmen, especially due to instant access to information. Over the time, BlackBerry has produced remarkable phones with efficiency and potency for productivity. A new smartphone sharing similar characteristics has been announced by the firm. It’s called Leap. Let's see why it is being hailed as one of the best 'executive's phone'…
BlackBerry Keypad and BlackBerry Power
BlackBerry has brought its popular physical keypad (of previous feature phones) typing experience to the new smartphone's touch keypad.
Leap's touchpad learns your writing patterns. In other words, it is an adaptive keyboard that provides effortless experience in writing. This is done by providing users with suggestions, so they can simply tap on the word rather than writing it completely. The settings for this mechanism can be customised too. With the aid of new adaptive keypad technology you will never miss to write sophisticated texts.
BlackBerry Leap comes with a non-removable 2,800mAh capacity Li-Ion battery. One can easily resort to heavy and mixed usage without interruption for up to 25 hours. This means you can charge it today and spend tomorrow without worrying of early drain out. With its GSM connectivity, Leap offers talk time of up to 12 hours and standby time of 15 hours.
Videos can be played for up to 9.5 hours and audio up to 80 hours. On UMTS network, one can consume 17 hours of talk time and 16.5 days of standby time.
Brilliance
With a brilliant 5-inch high-definition display, you can discover BlackBerry Hub and inbox Zen. All the messages from professional and personal roles under BBM, email, social media and text can be seen at one place, and are easily manageable.
The screen resolution is 1280 x 720 pixels with 24bit colour depth. With aspect ratio of 16:9, the pixel density is 294ppi. At the heart of Leap lies a 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM 8960 processing engine with a 2GB RAM. The internal storage is 16GB and external storage can be expanded by up to 128GB via microSD card.
Besides this, there is a microUSB 2.0 high-speed port that allows data and charging synchronisation of the smartphone via USB cable.
Leap does really leap on technological advancements in the camera department. At the rear side lays an 8MP camera with auto-focus, touch focus, flash and continuous focus features.
For zooming function there is a 5x digital zoom. Videos can be recorded in Full HD resolution at a frame rate of 30fps. In two steps, videos can be stabilised as well. Coming to the front side, there is a 2MP fixed-focus camera that is capable of recording high definition videos with aid of digital zoom of up to 3x.
The real personal digital assistant
BlackBerry Leap comes with special text-and-voice assistant. The Assistant application allows the user to effectively manage calendar, contacts and email with some BlackBerry 10 features via text and voice commands. With help of Assistant you'd be able to take tasks quickly under any circumstance whether you are sitting at your desk, driving your car or have a meeting at someplace.
For security measures, Leap comes with screen lock and password protection. BlackBerry Leap has been designed keeping in mind the highest level of security for a user. Options like restore, wipe, backup and malware protection are in-built. Along with sleep mode feature, notifications are alerted by vibration, tone, multi-colour LED indicator, on-screen and voice out and input. The handset comes equipped with hands free, Bluetooth and dual-mic for noise cancellation. The sensors provided are Ambient light, Proximity and Accelerometer.
Workaround
The operating system that runs the interface of the handset is BlackBerry 10. The company also provides the bundle with Blend software to bring-in ease of connectivity of your smartphone with tablet and computer. For even better synchronisation of media and data of the smartphone with the computer, there is BlackBerry Link.
With BBM meetings, you can access its collaboration features for hosting, participating and scheduling them. One can also access Android application store and download games and stuff from Amazon Appstore as well. As smartphones by BlackBerry are known for speedy and hassle-free conversations, Leap has incorporated the same. As a user, you can unhesitatingly access instant messaging apps for interaction with Windows Phone, iPhone and Android communication apps. For video calling you can also use BBM Video2.
BlackBerry Leap is certainly a very useful and productive smartphone for business. It is expected to hit the Indian market soon in the mid-range smartphone category.
