Launch pad: BlackBerry Q5, Xolo T1000

BlackBerry Q5
Price: 24,990
This is the midrange offering that comes with the latest BB10 OS. It has a 3.1-inch touchscren (720 x 720 pixels) with a physical qwerty keyboard in a lightweight (120 grams) unibody design. The phone runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.2Ghz dual core processor, 2GB RAM and comes with 8GB internal storage (expandable).

You also get a 5MP rear camera and a 2MP front camera along with a 2,180mAh battery . For connectivity, it has 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC (near field communications).

Xolo T1000
Price: 15,999
Powered by a Nvidia Tegra 3 quad core processor with a 12 core GeForce GPU, the T1000 is a smartphone aimed at gamers. The phone comes with a 4.7-inch IPS touchscreen (1280 x 720 pixels ) and 4GB storage (expandable).

Other specifications include 1GB RAM, 2,000mAh battery, proximity sensor, accelerometer, light sensor, magnetometer, Android 4.1, 8MP rear camera with full HD video recording and a 2MP front camera. TegraZone - the dedicated store to download tegra optimized Android games by Nvidia is preloaded.