The Canadian company Blackberry Limited may have stopped designing their hardware on 2015, to give way for their outsourcing partners, but its software still lives on and the charm of every newly introduced smartphone is still contagious. On the recently held Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Blackberry has introduced Blackberry KEYOne and it has then been anticipated to be launched in different parts of the world. Following that great news is another Blackberry smartphone from BB Merah Putih, one of Blackberry's partners in Indonesia, as they called it Blackberry Aurora.

With the looks of an ordinary touchscreen smartphone, Blackberry Aurora is the first Blackberry ever made by the Indonesian manufacturer based on reports from Digital Trends. First launched in Indonesia, and hopefully but not so sure, to be distributed worldwide, Aurora came in line with the first new Blackberry phones to be sold after Blackberry Limited's announcement on 2015. For now, Indonesian consumers will have the first impressions of the new Blackberry and the specifics will definitely amaze them.

Coming with a wide 5.5 -inch scratch resistant glass screen, the Blackberry Aurora is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 processor with Adreno 308 GPU. According to reports from Gizmo Times, it has an internal storage of 32 GB and 4 GB RAM and a microSD card slot support and a fully updated Android Nougat 7.0. It also has good camera features of the 13-megapixel rear camera and an 8-megapixel camera on the front and a 3,000 mAh battery that the company says will provide over 20 hours of battery life.

Blackberry Aurora has three colors to choose from black, silver, and gold and is already sold through pre-orders starting from March 3 to March 12. Aurora is priced at IDR 3,499,000 of around $260 but it is for now only sold in Indonesia. Depending on the product's feedback, Blackberry Aurora has yet to prove if it is worth for international distribution.

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