5 Problems with BlackBerry KEYOne... By BTechTalk

The KeyOne has been out for a couple of days now and it's recieved a bunch of attention not only from BlackBerry fans but also from other smartphone enthusiasts now that it's running Android. The KeyOne is priced at $550 and while the price is not too high, the phone might not be worth the price, because of it's major cons and downsides which you need to take into considoration before buying this phone. The first major problem of the KeyOne is it's chipset, when you realize you're getting a Snapdragon 625 and paying over $500 for the phone it really makes you wonder if the perfomance to price ratio is even worth it. Lets take the OnePlus 3T into consideration, the 3T costs $440, about $100 less and with that you get the Snapdragon 821, which is much newer, better and faster, which brings us to the next issue. Many people have been reporting app crashes, slow app opening and unresponsivness, this could be an issue with the slow CPU but it's also an issue with the incredibly un-optimized version of Android, in my opinion Blackberry didn't do a damn thing to optimize this thing to run apps and the OS without issues which is why users have been complaining, experiencing sudden app crashes and other glitches. Blackberry has done a terrible job on their optimization.

A few days back they tried to fix that by pushing out another software update 10.3.3, this software update was supposed to fix all the issues like app crashing and pretty much make the whole smartphone work and perform much better, but interestingly enough it made things even worse. Users started experiencing even more app crashes but along with that they also started to experience sudden increases in device temperatures, icons were going missing from the menus, apps not opening and not being able to connect to wifi networks. Blackberry has gotten themselves into an even bigger mess than before. The phone also seems to be quite heavy for it's size, coming in at about 180 grams, many people have reported the phone being really chunky and weird to hold for longer periods of time as it was quite heavy and really awkward to hold, apparently the materials used and the shape of it makes it really hard to hold for extended periods of time, so that's another thing to take into consideration before you pull the trigger and buy the device. If you're going to be buying this phone for media consumption like watching movies and listening to music using the loud speaker I recommend you to think again, the speaker is a stereo speaker, which is nice on paper but apparently the quality of sound is terrible, not only it's really quiet but there's also almost no bass at all which is quite dramatic and a big no no for people buying this phone who plan on using the loud speaker a lot.

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Source : BTechTalk