BlackBerry 2020: BlackBerry Mobile KEYone Revisited! By TechOdyssey

Hey everybody welcome back to tech odyssey, so today, I'm here to talk about the blackberry Kane, and this is the black edition. I didn't really intend on making this video. Originally. I was going through the key2 the other day, because new software update came out the uh, the new security patch for November, here, at least in the states anyway, so I was going through that, and I was checking like the motion of checking the key one every time there's a new security patron update. Furthermore, I go check all of them and I picked this up off my dresser, and I was like you know what let me play around with this. For a little I mean I, I do miss having a physical keyboard all the time.

Of course, you'll know I cover so many phones, so I have to bounce back and forth between them a lot, but this one right here has a little of a unique story for me, and I do want to talk about this, but before we get into it, I do want to say if this is your first time stopping by the channel. I appreciate you being here if you enjoyed the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bell. If you want updates when new videos come out, let's talk about the key one, so the key one came out summer 2017. , I was really excited about it. I went out, I bought one, I pre-ordered it, and it was just a mess trying to get one of these things, whether you pre-ordered it through Best Buy or Amazon or whatever, like people who ordered them from Best Buy, actually got them on launch day versus the guys on Amazon were kind of pushed back, which was the inverse whenever it came to the key to because then I tried to order best buy and those were backlogged, but then the guys on Amazon were getting theirs.

Actually, mine showed up like three or four weeks late. It was. It was crazy ridiculous, but this one is actually my second or my third key one. Actually I had the first one. I got it on launch day and two days after I got it, the screen started falling out of it so uh.

That was a fiasco, but I had a rink fusion case in and what was nice about? It was the lips on the case actually overlapped onto the edge of the screen ever so slightly, so it actually kept the screen in place from coming out like it didn't fall out completely. It was just lifting, so I did that. I ultimately did the warranty repair, and they fixed it for me, and then I ended up getting rid of it later on just because it is was kind of under powered. I had the three gig 32 gigabyte model, it just wasn't enough and of course they realized that, which is why they came out with the black edition and also the four gigabyte ram model. What they didn't really count on.

I guess is once these got out into the real world. They just didn't have enough memory for the android operating system, and it would have problems all the time, so they came out with the four gigabyte ram model and actually made a lot of difference, and I really like the way the black one looks as opposed to the silver one. I originally had the silver one. Of course, 4.5-inch screen 1080p display 4 gigs of ram this one's 64 gigabytes of storage. I actually kind of like the keyboard on here.

I grew to really like it and appreciate it at first. Furthermore, I wasn't the craziest about it, but I mean it is the touch sensitive one, just like on the PRI and the passport and the ke2, so that's cool an extension of the screen, 3500 William battery and yeah USB charging 18 watt quick charge everything you could really ask for on a blackberry. Furthermore, I mean it has the same sensor and the camera is the pixel phone 12 megapixel camera eight on the front capable of shooting 4k at 30. , so snapdragon 625. It didn't look bad on paper.

Really. What held this phone back? Was the software experience, blackberry and android just to the date of you know the blackberry licensing agreement with blackberry, mobile terminating never really quite got the android thing right. They wanted to put so much on top of it and this whole blackberry user interface, I'm hoping with the new onward mobility. One it'll be more of a stock experience with like a, I really want a blackberry 10 over like I do, especially with the swipe gestures like I was dreaming and dreaming waiting for so long like all right. We got these new blackberries coming.

Android 9 is going to give us swipe gestures. Once android 9 arrives, we're going to get that experience with the swiping like we did with the blackberry 10 operating system. They stopped at android 8.1 right before it crossed the finish line, and we got stuck with Oreo so point of contention there I have a little but yeah. This was, I think, a decent shot at a first phone with the blackberry mobile licensing agreement. I did like the more squared off and polished look of the key2 ultimately, but this one, I don't think, was a bad first attempt, especially with TCL behind the wheel, making this device had the headphone jack, no wireless charging, no IP rating, but it's kind of hard to do that when you have this porous keyboard on here, I don't have a problem with blackberry's, not having IP certification, and it's a business device.

I mean you can use it for other things, but don't take it in the water. Furthermore, I like that they put the fingerprint sensor into the space bar and this one actually was pretty darn responsive. If this one, I think, had the best haptic feedback. Furthermore, I didn't really like the haptic feedback in the key2le and the fingerprint sensor and the space bar on the key2 never felt quite right and the first run kind of had some issues with that, but this one aside from the issues aside from the screens falling out whatever other quality control problems 549. Furthermore, I thought it was fairly well priced at the time and I thought that it did what it needed to do.

The things that I didn't like, I think it was a little of a learning process for people to get used to this device. For one thing, it irked the ever living heck out of me typing on this and hitting the enter button would not send the message, so it was always taking me out of the experience it's like type type type. Oh, let me go hit the enter button and why they could never get that figured out. I don't know- and I hope, moving forward with this new one. They fix that that's one of the biggest things that kills me like.

Why have a physical keyboard if the enter button won't actually send the message you know, so I hope they fix that but yeah? I think that there are some things that can be learned from this experience. Clearly they have experience under the belt blackberry, with working through a licensing agreement. What to expect from partners, quality control, of course, plagued the blackberry mobile devices. I had issues with every single one. My motion home button got stuck and then stopped working.

My key one screen fell out my ke2. The space bar had issues so actually no, I didn't really have any problems with the ke2 led, I think the key to LE if they came out with that first, and they had it priced at like the 400 450 ballparks, I think it would have sold a lot better. I think it would have done a lot better for the licensing agreement like this one. They tried to make it a little more premium. Looking, but blackberries historically have been more like business.

Oriented very, very well-built solid design, but they weren't afraid to put some rubber on the back of it or make it a little on the heavier because of the dense battery that they put in it so trying to make them glass and glossy and what they did with the deter and things I really felt like it was kind of a move away from it. There has to be a balance there, blackberry likes metal, they like plastic glass. I don't know so much that it works out all that well, but you know we'll see with what the vision for the next ones are, but this one, I think the black model of the ke2 really very much embodied the idea, the essence of black grape better than the original silver one did, and this one though the key2l, the key2, really looks a lot like a slim down passport, and I, like that, a lot with the SE edition but yeah. I was just going down memory lane. Furthermore, I wanted to talk about this and share some experience with it.

You know my first one I was still in the military at the time and I loved that phone and I took it with me. I was out at the base here in Houston during hurricane Harvey, and I was driving around using like the rescue truck and worried about getting my phone wet because of course it didn't have an IP ready, but I did take some pictures back then, and I used it and yeah. So during that whole disaster operation, I was using my blackberry Kane the whole time um, but I had it for a while enjoyed it. I eventually moved on. I think I got rid of it when I got my ke2 um.

Furthermore, I think yeah I sold is what I did. Furthermore, I sold it to use the money towards the key too, because I just didn't: have a ton of money back didn't be buying phones, but overall this one. Furthermore, I very much enjoyed this one. Furthermore, I got sent as a review unit from blackberry mobile later on and yeah, as my channel grew, and I was able to establish that relationship, and it's funny, because when I first started uh reviewing stuff my whole goal with becoming a reviewer, I wanted to get big enough as a reviewer, so blackberry would send me phones- and I wanted to cover blackberry phones, because I loved all of them and I didn't like having to go, buy them all the time. So you know motivation is there, but it was funny by time I finally arrived and got to the point where blackberry was sending me phones.

They were getting ready to close up their doors, but this one very near and dear to me. I do very much like this one. I like the keyboard on it. Furthermore, I like this black and this you know glass, plastic, look for the keys. Furthermore, I think that they did an okay enough job.

I don't know what all I don't think the market was just ripe enough to support a blackberry revival. Then I'm hoping for better things with this new licensing agreement really excited a lot of good buzzwords with the 5g and the premium and looking toward having a flagship, camera and all-day battery life. Lots of good things that we rely on, and we care about in blackberry. But maybe I felt were a little short-changed like I felt like they tried to make these premium, but they didn't always feel essentially premium, but they didn't give us premium specs in them either. So if we could get a seven or an eight series, snapdragon processor, eight gigabytes of ram like a 4500 William battery great camera, like lots of good things like that uh.

I think that it'll go a long way with inspiring people to pick them up so yeah. I just wanted to sit down talk about this one for a minute this one, it's still a viable phone, I mean it hasn't, had a security update since I believe april 2019, so over a year and a half. Now it's not going to get another one. It's not like the ke2 and the key2le that, for whatever reason, keep getting one here and there, even after the licensing or even expired in August, which has been kind of curious to me, but I'll keep reporting on that as it comes out, but yeah. This is the blackberry t1 black edition and yeah.

I think it's a decent phone. I don't think that it failed necessarily and in the hardware arena software could have been better, but talking about it, you know with the key series name: it just wasn't the key that opened any doors. So hopefully the new ones will open some new doors, but it's nice being able to go back and look at this stuff. Honestly, I'd still be using this one or the key2. Much more if it had got updated, android 9 and that was really frustrating, because the key2 very well should have gotten android 9.

And it didn't and those swipe gestures and not having these capacitive buttons down on the bottom would have been really, really nice. I mean, of course they still would have been there, but it would have been nice to have the swipe gestures, and maybe that's one of the reasons why they didn't move forward with upgrading it to android 9, or you know, even ultimately android 10, but this is it. This is in a nutshell. I just wanted to stop by and talk about the blackberry Kane for a minute. So if you have any questions or comments, if you're still using one yeah, that's one of the things that's cool is I make these videos and a lot of times.

People will leave comments like oh watching from my PRI, watching from my passport, watching listening from my ke2, so for all you guys out there still carrying one of these around kudos to you guys, hopefully you're still enjoying it. Hopefully it's still working and if you enjoyed the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bell. If you want updates when new videos come out and as always thanks for being here, I appreciate you watching, and I'll see you guys next time.

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