A closer look at the BlackBerry KEYone: Is the keyboard a benefit in 2017? | Pocketnow By Pocketnow

One bag now here for pocket now, and we're taking a closer look at the BlackBerry key one, there's not quite anything else like it. So, instead of jumping straight into some comparisons, we'll be highlighting a couple features looking at what makes this option unique and what better place to start than with this phone signature feature literally a part of the phone's name. This keyboard is a throwback piece of hardware to the more exciting and diverse days of smartphone design. Blackberry's transition to a modern operating system might not have been the smoothest but arriving at Android. This is the third device with manufacturing partner TCL. You just don't see hardware keyboards much these days as Android evolved.

We all just sort of agreed on glass front faces and maybe some hardware navigation buttons. Usually a keyboard feels half-baked stapled on an afterthought. We would expect, of course, that Blackberry would succeed here where others have stumbled. After a couple of weeks of use, I can't claim I'm any faster or more accurate at typing on these tic tags. It took some work getting my thumb's to remember what this feels like, but every day I use it I feel more comfortable taking these presses for granted, as they slide into the mental background of my messaging I've, always liked that hardware keyboards allow the whole display to be utilized, but the addition of this hardware moves far beyond text entry, there's a phenomenal amount of consideration for how it integrates into the rest of the Android experience.

Of course, we've discussed the fingerprint sensor built into the space bar. It's inspired design, anchoring the phone for how you'll hold it most often, and that runs double for the capacitive sensors, which can augment navigation sliding over keys to move between home pages or scroll vertically. You rarely have to reposition the phone when using it, and maybe the only awkward slide is reaching up for the power button which we can all agree is on the wrong side of the phone, see whenever a manufacturer strays from its normal hardware form-factor. We rarely see that change while represented on a first generation device. A perfect example would be the first iPhone six-plus at launch.

The big iPhone arrived with an OS that had always focused on thumb ergonomics. There was little software to really utilize the additional real estate and the few new additions to iOS were largely added to apologize for the bigger dimensions. Blackberry, gracefully avoids these pitfalls. It would be an annoying reach around the keyboard to use the camera, for example, but the space bar doubles as the shutter button and the capacitive sensors are wonderful for dialing in quick exposure, adjustments shoot a handful of photos, and it's easy to get a feel for how this has been incorporated into the overall phone philosophy. Blackberry doesn't apologize for this mass below the display instead embracing it giving people reasons to use it throughout the UI, though, that strength might also be the BlackBerry's greatest weakness for two reasons.

One user might embrace it or might suffer from a plethora of choice. You get 29 buttons to customize 29. You can assign multiple shortcuts and contacts all over this phone. I know several people personally, who will probably pee themselves for options like these, but I also know a few folks who will likely consider this a chore and point to this phone gives off a somewhat poor first impression, it's extremely unfamiliar for a lot of the smartphone buying community. Now I was a hardware keyboard junkie back in the day, and it took me a couple of days before I stopped thinking about every keystroke I'd.

Imagine that early use might have an even steeper learning curve for someone who has only used software keyboards. That's the thing about hardware. You have to get a feel for it, but then you get the benefit of operating through feel without ever looking at the screen sliding from the space bar, after unlocking too long pressing a key launching an app or messaging all more reliable than Voice Actions, an alternate method of control which might evolved primate, paws kind of dig. This is a wonderfully successful pairing. It's always exciting.

Talking about gadgets that target a specific feature or issue then nail the execution. This phone really does what blackberry claim it can do beyond just punching in letters. Software keyboards aren't really a problem for anyone these days. This is a well considered, polished control surface, which guarantees the key one becomes. A bespoke gadget tailor fit to the individual who owns it.

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