Cherry Mobile Blaze Specs, Price and Features

Cherry Mobile Blaze - Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Smartphone with 8 MP Autofocus Camera

Is Cherry Mobile Titan too big for you? Is Cherry Mobile Flare's 5 MP camera not enough for your photo capturing needs?

If your answers in the above questions are both yes, then you have to look at Cherry Mobile Blaze. Blaze is smaller than Titan but with the same processing power and camera. It is slightly bigger than Flare but with a better graphics processing unit and camera too.

Cherry Mobile Blaze Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update Now Available


Cherry Mobile Blaze received an update to Jelly Bean on February 2, 2013. For those who already have Cherry Mobile Blaze with the original Android Ice Cream Sandwich, you can have the update at any Cherry Mobile service center nationwide.

Jelly Bean pumps up a lot of good stuff into Cherry Mobile Blaze like smoother operation (thanks to project Butter) and smarter notification among others.

Cherry Mobile Blaze with 1 GHz Dual Core Processor and 512 GB of RAM

Cherry Mobile Blaze operates using a dual core MT6577 processor clocked at 1 GHz. This is coupled with a 512 MB or RAM to handle several apps and services running at the same time.

I'm a bit disappointed with the RAM of Cherry Mobile. A 1 GB or even 700+ MB of RAM would have been better.

Cherry Mobile Blaze Graphics Performance and Display Specs

Blaze has a 4.7 inch display with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels or 208 pixels per inch.

This means that the not so large display of Cherry Mobile Blaze will have stunning pictures and graphics but not at all angles since it does not have IPS display. Texts will appear crisp and clear since it has a dense number of pixels in its screen.

Many observed that Blaze is well suited for gaming. It is powered by a PowerVR SGX531 GPU which is a very good graphics processing unit for 3D games on smartphones. It can even play Need for Speed Most Wanted!

Cherry Mobile Blaze Camera Performance


Blaze is better than Flare when it comes to the camera. Blaze has an 8 Megapixel Autofocus camera at the back with an LED flash.

The camera captures good quality pictures when outside with the bright sunlight. However, it does not have the same quality that you would expect with a digital camera with same pixel count.

The front facing camera is a VGA one with a pixel count of 0.3 MP. It's not that much but it is satisfactory for basic video calling.

Cherry Mobile Blaze Connectivity Features and Sensors

Blaze has the basic features you will find in most Android phones when it comes to connectivity.

It can connect to and act as a WiFi hotspot, transfer and receive files via Bluetooth, access data connection in 3G and EDGE GPRS. It is also equiped with GPS for tracking your location.

Blaze also has sensors for proximity, gyro or auto rotation and ambient light for automatic screen brightness.

Cherry Mobile Blaze Battery and Price

Blaze is equipped with a 1500 mAh battery pack. Many were disappointed with this but Cherry Mobile made up for the small battery capacity by offering Power Banks.

Cherry Mobile Blaze currently sells at ₱ 6,499.00 at Cherry Mobile outlets and mobile phone stores across the country.

Kaspersky Lab signs up to actively support INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI)

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, has agreed to work closely with the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI). This was announced after a meeting between Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, Ronald Noble, INTERPOL Secretary General, and Noboru Nakatani, IGCI Executive Director, held recently at Kaspersky Lab’s headquarters in Moscow. More details after the jump.

Topping the agenda for the meeting were the topics of cybercrime and emerging cyberthreats, plus the importance of collective efforts in the fight against cybercriminals to better secure the Internet.

The key results of the meeting were Kaspersky Lab confirming it plans to send on secondment its top experts to the IGCI once it becomes operational in 2004, and also to provide broad functional support and threat intelligence on an ongoing basis.

Kaspersky Lab has also agreed to help with the IGCI's capacity building efforts to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies worldwide to deal with cyberthreats in general.

The IGCI will equip international cyber police forces with the tools and knowledge needed to better tackle the cybercrime threats of the 21st century for example by identifying criminals and providing innovative training and operational support for law enforcement across the globe.

The Philippines is a member country of the INTERPOL. The Philippine Center on Transnational Crime (PCTC) currently houses INTERPOL Manila, according to the official website of INTERPOL International.

"I am most pleased with the outcome of this meeting. I have been pushing for the creation of what I used to call an 'Internet-INTERPOL' for over a decade now, and at last it has finally come to pass," said Eugene Kaspersky.

"It should come as no surprise that we wholeheartedly support this initiative, testified to by our plans to second some of our top analysts over to the IGCI in Singapore. Soon cybercriminals will have nowhere to hide — not able to hole up in this or that country, as they have been able to up to now. The net is closing in on cybercriminals — both the proverbial one and the Inter-net,” Kaspersky said.

“The strong support for the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation expressed by Eugene Kaspersky, the founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, will provide law enforcement in our 190 member countries with the expertise to generate actionable intelligence to protect cyberspace and to bring cybercriminals to justice,” noted IGCI Executive Director Mr. Nakatani.

INTERPOL Secretary General Mr. Noble echoed both his counterparts' sentiments by adding that, "Transnational crime cannot be fought in isolation, and drawing on private sector expertise and support against cybercrime is essential. Fighting cybercrime requires that law enforcement at both the national and international levels works with the private sector, particularly its forward-thinking technological leaders such as Kaspersky Lab, in order to keep pace with today's cybercriminals."