BlackBerry has smartphone Classic released. The phone has a 3.5″touch screen and physical buttons below the screen. The Classic is especially designed for lovers of the former Bold line of the Canadian smartphonemaker.
The Classic goes directly in the sale, although the delivery is only at the end of december seems to begin. The price BlackBerry is asking is 449 dollars. BlackBerry gives no prices for the Netherlands and Belgium, but in the Pricewatch he stands as a pre-order for 429 euros.
The new BlackBerry has a 3.5″screen with a resolution of 720×720 pixels and has all the buttons that Bold smartphones also have. Therefore, this is the first BlackBerry 10 phone with physical buttons for call and hang up. In the middle is the BlackBerry button, which is in the apps menu opens. The button in the middle leads users to the homescreen. That button event now as a trackpad, although the screen is also touch-sensitive.
The Canadian smartphonemaker the phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960-soc, a dual-core processor, which the chip maker since 2012 in the assortment. The dual-core processor has a maximum clock speed of 1.5 GHz. The battery has a capacity of 2515mAh.
The release of the phone is no surprise. BlackBerry director John Chen showed the device for the first time in June. The announcement of the first reviews online appeared. BlackBerry fansite N44B shows themselves satisfied with the device, while techsite MobileSyrup, the combination of the keys and the BlackBerry 10 frustrating calls. Also the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail is unhappy about the extension. The pre-orders in the United States are now sold out.
