BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982

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Announced On : November, 2013

Features : 3G, 4.2" Capacitive touchscreen, 8 MP camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth.



BLACKBERRY PORSCHE DESIGN P’9982 OVERVIEW


BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 is a Candybar, Touchscreen Smartphone from BlackBerry which runs on BlackBerry 10.2 OS. BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 is available in Black color and 140 g (4.94 oz) of weight. BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 has 768 x 1280 pixels, 4.2 inches (~355 ppi pixel density) display size which supports Capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors.

BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 is powered by Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait CPU, Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon Chipset and Adreno 225 GPU.

Additional features of BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 are Stainless steel body and leather-covered rear panel. BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 has GPRS, EDGE, 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS connectivity options on board. You can take pictures of your beloved ones from its 8 MP camera.

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