Shahriyar Ali
After a long pause, BlackBerry makes a comeback to Indian market with its new series of smartphones – DTEK60 & DTEK50! Unlike the first Android powered BlackBerry PRIV, these two phones are all-touch devices and are made in partnership of TCL. The high-end DTEK60 gets a price tag of just Rs. 46,990 & the mid-end DTEK50 gets a tag of Rs. 21,990!
DTEK50 will be available in stores starting this weekend. And the DTEK60 will be available by November.
The DTEK series provides enterprises and organizations with full access to the Android ecosystem and higher-end specs to help power productivity. It comes equipped with all the security features that BlackBerry’s Android OS devices have, including best-in-class security patching and the DTEK by BlackBerry app that allows users to monitor and control their privacy on their phone.
BlackBerry DTEK60 & DTEK50 Specifications
- Fully Android™
- Access to over a million apps on Google Play™
- 5.5″ or 5.2” scratch-resistant display
- Convenience Key
- 8MP front camera with flash
- 21MP or 13MP auto-focus rear camera
- Fingerprint Sensor (DTEK60™)
- BlackBerry Security that protects the private details of your life from being hacked
Design
Size
DTEK60
Height 153.9 mm / 6.06 in
Width 75.4 mm / 2.97 in
Depth 7 mm / 0.28 in
DTEK50
Height 147 mm / 5.79 in
Width 72.5 mm / 2.85 in
Depth 7.4 mm / 0.29 in
Weight
DTEK60
165g / 5.82 oz
DTEK50
135g / 4.76 oz
Navigation
All-touch screen, with intuitive gesture based navigation
Keyboard
On screen BlackBerry® Keyboard
Contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction and a personalized learning engine that gets to know the way you type with on screen flick typing or seamless flow typing.
Dedicated keys
Volume Up/Down, Lock (for Power On/Off)
Customizable BlackBerry Convenience Key (usable as Mute Key when on an active call)
Display
Resolution
DTEK60
534 PPI
2560 x 1440 Quad HD resolution
24-bit color depth
DTEK50
424 PPI
1920 x 1080 resolution
24-bit color depth
Screen Size
DTEK60
5.5” diagonal
16:9 aspect ratio
DTEK50
5.2” diagonal
16:9 aspect ratio
OS
Operating system
Android OS
Performance
Processor
DTEK60
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core (MSM8996 with 64 bit Quad-Core 2+2 Kryo 2.15GHz / 1.6GHz)
Adreno 530, 624MHz GPU
DTEK50
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 Oct-Core, 64-bit (MSM8952 with 64 bit Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 + Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53)
Adreno 405, 550MHz GPU
Memory
DTEK60
4 GB RAM
32 GB Flash
DTEK50
3 GB RAM
16 GB Flash
Expandable memory
Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD memory card (Up to 2TB)
Ports
DTEK60
USB Type-C
- USB 2.0 fully supported with standard USB Type C to USB Type A cable (included in box)
- USB OTG
DTEK50
Micro USB
- USB 2.0 fully supported with standard micro USB 2.0 to USB Type A cable (included in box)
Power
Battery
DTEK60
3000 mAh 4.4V non-removable Lithium Ion battery QC3.0 Enabled
DTEK50
2610 mAh 4.4V non-removable Lithium Ion battery QC2.0 Enabled – 50% charge in 51 minutes
Battery life1
DTEK60
Up to 24 hours mixed battery life1
Up to 26 hours talk time
Up to 14 days standby time
Up to 88 hours audio playback
Up to 17 hours video playback
DTEK50
Up to 17 hours mixed battery life1
Up to 17 hours talk time
Up to 12.8 days standby time
Up to 40 hours audio playback
Up to 8 hours video playback
Camera & Video
Rear Camera
DTEK60
21 megapixel auto-focus camera
4K video recording at 30 fps
720p HD video recording at 120 fps
Phase Detect Auto Focus (PDAF), Fast focus lock
HDR
6-element f2.0 lens
Dual Tone LED Flash – Enhanced photo color balance
4x digital zoom
Continuous & touch to focus, face detection, video image stabilization
Panorama, Burst, Live Filters
Multi-frame Low Light Enhancement
DTEK50
13 megapixel auto-focus camera
1080p HD video recording at 30 fps
Phase Detect Auto Focus (PDAF), Fast focus lock
HDR
6-element f2.0 lens
Dual Tone LED Flash – Enhanced photo color balance
4x digital zoom
Continuous & touch to focus, face detection, video image stabilization
Panorama, Burst, Live Filters
Multi-frame Low Light Enhancement
Front Camera
8MP Fixed-Focus, f2.2
1.125um pixel size
84? wide angle/field of view lens
HDR, Live Filters, video image stabilization
Image & video stabilization
1080p HD video recording at 30 fps
Selfie Flash
Wide Selfie Mode (also known as Selfie Panorama)
Multi-Frame Low Light Enhancement
Multimedia
Image formats
BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, WEBP
Audio & video formats
3GP, 3G2, AAC, AVI, ADTS, ASF, AWB, DIVX, FLAC, IMY, MID, MKV, MOV, MP3, MPEG-4, MXMF, OGG, OTA, RTTTL, RTX, WAV, WEBM, WMV, XMF
Audio & video
encoding/decoding
MPEG-4, AAC+, AAC-LC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, DivX, EVRC, FLAC, H.263, H.264, H265/HEVC, MIDI, MP3, OPUS, PCM, QCELP, VC-1, VORBIS, VP8, VP9, WMA, WMA 9/10, WMA Pro, Xvid, eAAC+
Streaming protocols
HTTP(S) Progressive Download, HTTP(S) Live Streaming (HLS) version 3, RTSP (RTP, SDP)
Apps
Pre-loaded apps
BlackBerry Applications:
BlackBerry® Keyboard, BlackBerry® Hub, BlackBerry Calendar, Contacts by BlackBerry, Notes by BlackBerry, Tasks by BlackBerry, BlackBerry Camera, BBM®, DTEK™ by BlackBerry®, BlackBerry Device Search, BlackBerry Launcher, BlackBerry Services, BlackBerry Help, BlackBerry Password Keeper, Microsoft exFAT Technology for BlackBerry, BlackBerry Content Transfer, Yahoo!® Finance
Android Applications:
Gmail™, Hangouts™, Google Chrome™, Google Drive™, Google Maps™, YouTube®, Google Play™, Google Photos, Messenger (SMS), Android Device Manager
Alerts & Notifications
Tone
Vibrate
On-screen or white (DTEK50) or red (DTEK60) LED indicator
(Some notification options are user configurable)
Networks & Connectivity
Network bands2
DTEK60
North America and Latin America:
LTE Advanced, with speeds up to 300 Mbps for data downloads
FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17, 20, 29 (2100/1900/1800/1700/850/2600/700/700/800/700/2300 MHz)
HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 (2100/1900/1700/850/900 MHz)
Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific:
LTE Advanced, with speeds up to 300 Mbps for data downloads
FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19, 20, 28A (2100/1900/1800/2600/900/800/700 MHz)
TD-LTE 38, 40, 41 (2600/2300/2500 MHz)
HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5/6, 8 (2100/1900/850/900 MHz)
Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
DTEK50
North America and Latin America:
LTE Advanced, with speeds up to 300 Mbps for data downloads
FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17, 20, 29, 30 (2100/1900/1800/1700/850/2600/700/700/800/700/2300 MHz)
HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 (2100/1900/1700/850/900 MHz)
Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific:
LTE Advanced, with speeds up to 300 Mbps for data downloads
FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 20, 28A (2100/1900/1800/2600/900/800/700 MHz)
TD-LTE 38, 40, 41 (2600/2300/2500 MHz)
HSPA+ 1, 2, 5/6, 8 (2100/1900/850/900 MHz)
Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
Wi-Fi®
802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz
802.11 a/n 5GHz
802.11 ac 5GHz
4G Mobile Hotspot
Wi-Fi Direct
FM Radio
Supported (DTEK50)
Bluetooth®
Bluetooth 4.2 Low Energy (LE) and EDR
GPS
Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS
Support for User Plane and Control Plane GPS
GLONASS, BeiDou
OTDOA
Pre-loaded Google Maps
NFC
NFC technology is used to create a connection to share information between your BlackBerry device and other NFC-enabled devices or NFC tags. Features on DTEK50 and DTEK60 that use NFC technology include Android Beam, Tap and Pay, and Tap and Go.
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Gyroscope
Proximity
Ambient light
Hall Effect
Fingerprint sensor (DTEK60)
Accessibility
Google TalkBack screen reader for audible output
Face-to-face video chat with Google Hangouts
Google Now voice assistance to answer questions and perform actions
Scalable fonts and magnification to zoom in or zoom out
Closed Captioning support
High contrast text, color inversion and color correction
Certain models rated for use with hearing aids
Thanks for the good news !! is the warranty going to be for 18 months as usual ? the differential pricing of 25k between Dtek50 & 60 is tricky !!!
Is it possible to upgrade Z30 to DTEK50 priv software
Dtek 60 US Price is $ 499 and in India Price Rs. 46999. This Unacceptable.
47K is a bit too much for Dtek 60. i was actually expecting it to be 39-41. nexus 6p comes a lot cheaper for same 32GB. now i am in dilemma.
Why bloody hell such a huge difference in US and India price for Dtek60?? Secondly droid phone with very much similar configuration are available at a much cheaper price. I was expecting Dtek60 between 38K – 42K. Good news is blackberry is now seems to trying to atleast win back customers in India. 🙂
No point in wasting such a huge money.. For half of this price you can get the wonderful One Plus 3 Mobile or even a Samsung mobile with some 40% cheaper price.
When will DTEK50 be available in Indian stores. I contacted Optiemus but didnt get any specific answer. Could someone please advise!