Canadian smartphone company BlackBerry Ltd has officially begun taking pre-orders for its first Android smartphone, the Priv. The Priv handset will be available to customers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom as from November 6th.
Now that we know the release date of the BlackBerry Priv handset, it is time we get to know the price of the Priv in Nigeria... and in US, UK and Canada--- the first three countries where the new BlackBerry handset will be made available.
According to BlackBerry, its Android-powered Priv slider smartphone will sell for $700 in the United States, $900 CND in Canada and £559 in the UK. As you can see, pricing for the Priv varies according to where it is sold.
Yeah the Qwerty keyboard Priv phone is quite expensive. In fact it is more expensive than the 16GB iPhone 6S and Samsung Galaxy S6 from rivals Apple and Samsung.
I believe at this point you already having a clue about the Price of the BlackBerry Priv handset in Nigeria, most especially if you are familiar with the current exchange rates. For the sake of this post, I will go with US' pricing. The BlackBerry Priv handset will be priced at N139,000 apiece.
Like I said earlier, the BlackBerry Priv costs a lot of money, truth be told. But don't forget that it is a high-end smartphone. It will come fully equipped with BlackBerry's security software DTEK, an 18 megapixels back camera, 2MP front camera, 3GB of RAM paired with a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor, a 3410 mAh battery that lasts 22.4 hours and runs on Android 5.1.1 operating system.