BlackBerry Leap vs Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Specs, Camera, Price Comparison: 2 New Budget Smartphones With Good Features

The Leap is the new budget smartphone from BlackBerry and it comes without a physical keyboard which is present in many of the company's devices. As soon as it was launched in the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 1, the BlackBerry Leap got a whole lot of competition from Sony, which released the mid-range Xperia M4 Aqua in the same venue.

Design

The BlackBerry Leap has a plastic chassis and fine dimples on its back panel. It is much more stylish than the company's earlier touch-screen devices. As for the Xperia M4 Aqua, it also has a plastic body that looks very similar to the flagship Sony Xperia Z3, particularly its similar rounded corners.

Display

The IPS LCD display on the Xperia M4 Aqua measures 5.0 inches and has a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels and a density of 294 pixels per inch. The BlackBerry Leap has a 5.0-inch screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels and a density of 294 pixels per inch.

Specs

As for specs, the BlackBerry Leap has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus chipset, dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait CPU and Adreno 305 GPU. The Xperia M4 Aqua has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset, a CPU with four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5 GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.0 GHz along with an Adreno 405 CPU.

Memory

Both the BlackBerry Leap and the Xperia M4 Aqua have memory slots and each can be used to add external storage of up to 128 GB. In terms of RAM, both phones have 2 GB.

Camera

The Xperia M4 Aqua has a better 13-megapixel camera at the back while the BlackBerry Leap has an 8-megapixel version. In front, the Sony phone has a 5-megapixel camera while its competitor has a 2-megapixel version.

Price

The BlackBerry Leap will be priced at $275 without a two-year contract, while the Xperia M4 Aqua could be priced at around $310.