All You Need To Know About Blackberry Q5

The Blackberry Q5 has started popping up everywhere in Nigeria lately, some people who had pre-ordered the phone from either MTN or the various online stores are beginning to receive their devices. If you are like me and you haven't pre-ordered yours, you might get a little jealous but this can be a good thing since we all know early adopters experience the most issues with their phones such as design flaws, equipment malfunction, etc. This is not to say that the Q5 is not an awesome phone or its not well designed but a little heads up about what you might be getting into when buying this device is always welcome.

The Blackberry Q5 is the third device released by Blackberry this year, It was designed with the form-factor of older blackberry curve phones in mind, it has curved edges and its covered in a cheaper matte plastic finish than its other BB10 relatives. Although This phone was designed to be cheaper than other BB10 phones, Blackberry hasn't scaled down the OS offerings at all, you get the same OS as are on the other phones. Most of the scaling down has actually happened on the spec sheet, for instance its comes with 8GB of internal Storage as opposed to the 16GB storage found on  the Q10, a 5MP camera as opposed to 8MP on the Q10. The phone also is also powered by a 1.2 Ghz processor compared to the 1.5Ghz found on the Q10 but you won't feel a Lag in performance basically because it has the same 2GB RAM onboard as the Q10.

Blackberry has deliberately scaled down this device and done away with most of the luxuries found on other BB10 devices in an attempt to compete in the Budget Smartphone category but at the present price point its being offered, it seems to defeat that purpose but with a deeper understanding you will find out that there are not many phones in the market with a physical keyboard and this kind of specs on the market so blackberry might be carving out another niche for themselves in this category, so if you can't shell out the cash for the pricey Q10, this is a worthy replacement without too much compromise on the specs. Below is a spec sheet depicting all the features of the phone and how it compares with the Q10.

 I haven't gotten my hands on this device yet so this is not a review. A review would follow up in the next few days so be sure to subscribe to this blog or you can follow us on twitter  for speedy updates.