BlackBerry Leap went through our review routine and while it's hardly the easiest of recommendations it did convince us that it has its own niche.

The dated Snapdragon S4 Play chip runs on two Krait cores and Adreno 225 GPU – not the most energy efficient on the market. We've met those chips on previous Berries and they didn't live up to the modern standards. What's the case with the new Leap then?

We have some good and bad news. The good news is the Leap does better than its predecessors. The bad news – it's still not enough to be on par with the competition. With a massive 2,800 mAh battery we expected better.

Let's start from the beginning though. We hooked up the Leap on a 3G call with another device and it lasted just a few minutes past the 12 hour mark, which is a pretty decent achievement.

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