Blackberry Key 2 LE Review: Not All Keyboards Are Equal By Sypnotix

Wow, look who's back, I'm, Alex, ISM, noted, welcome to Scipio tag, we're back, and today we are taking a look at the BlackBerry key to Kelly after so many months of a delay and lets deep you that brand-new intro right now, let's get back to work alright, so the BlackBerry key to Ellie is a physical keyboard. Qwerty keyboard phone, which blackberry, makes, of course, blackberry kind of, has a stranglehold on this field. We're seeing some new introductions from other companies in 2019 MWC had some pretty cool stuff, but this particular phone. You can look at it in one of two ways: one it is a mid-range Android phone that is kind of overpriced or two. You can look at it as a mid-range after form of a keyboard, that's significantly stripped down from its counterpart. So let's look at it and both of these aspects to see who this phone is made for or whether you even want this phone.

If you want a keyboard, alright, we'll start off with the mid-range Android phone. Take on this. So if you want to look at it just as an Android phone, that's kind of different, because the Android space is where you can find some unique phone. So you can't get that with iOS, and we have a couple models. Android is where creativity excels, and this particular phone is unique in many ways.

The first way is the display. Look at the display. It's a three by two aspects: ratio displays, and we're. Looking at phones now with 18 by 9 19 by 9, even 21 by 9. Sony is coming over experiment when t 1 by 9 cinematic to sweat.

This is a 3x2, it's more of a square than the long rectangle, and you really don't see that in smartphones. You might see that more on tablets and also laptops which I personally really like that aspect ratio. But it's kind of weird to see that on a phone- and the reason you have this, of course, is because the keyboard is beneath it. So you have this kind of boxy squarish aspect ratio which is unique, and this 4 by 4.5-inch screen it's 1080p screen, so the screen quality is actually pretty good. One thing about the display I liked about the key to Ellie is the viewing angles and also the sharpness of the colors I, really like the colors on here.

It's an IPS display and 4.5 inches, and this weird form factor i. e. I had some reservations about it, but after using it I'm viewing stuff on this was secondary. It's natural, it felt normal. The only weird thing is Bob is holding it when you're holding it.

You expect the entire image to go from finger to finger right when you're building a smartphone now, especially with the bezels so small, on modern smartphones. You feel like you're, expecting the video to go from one end to the other end, but instead it starts here, and it goes maybe like 60 70 percent of the way, and then you get like the keyboard, the black. So it's its kind of jarring at first, when watching video, your eyes kind of shift to the left. Instead of in the center of the image, whereas modern smartphones, when you're holding the entire smartphone, your viewing go straight into the center, because the whole plane is viewable, so that gets a little use. You have to get you taking a little of time and getting used to that with the keyboard and, as far as hardware goes we're looking at a Snapdragon 636 into four gigabytes of RAM, nothing to write home about, especially when you're looking at the key to the key to is significantly more expensive than this particular phone.

However, even then the key to isn't that powerful, it's not using that much more of a powerful chip, but you could significantly see lagging and other things happening on this particular trip said more so than even other devices that I've used the Snapdragon 636 chip I feel like part of that is because of the library, software library. Software has a lot of protection on it. Blackberry is trying to make a niche following for its safety reasons. You know it's always about enterprises for blackberry, it's always about security and that frame of mind to be secure and Blackberry. Does a good job of that, however, I do have a feeling that some the things that they put onto their launcher or their OS and how the workflow works on these phones kind of slows down the performance of these chips instead of utilizing it as effectively as it can so.

I have noticed lagging on certain things that I thought the Snapdragon 630 Series chips should be able to do better, at least from what I've seen on write, MCAS and stuff like that, but on the blackberry, it struggled a little there and now to our setting talking point about how to analyze what this phone actually is. The BlackBerry key to LE is essentially a stripped-down version of the key to the key to itself is not a very powerful phone, it's their flagship phone for blackberry, but it doesn't mean it's an actual flagship, suspect phone, and you weren't stamped reading 660, which is by no means a powerful chips. It's still a very mid-range chipset, but it's still more powerful than this particular chipset in this phone. So, by already not having a very powerful chipset in the original phone and lowering it even more that doesn't bode well already for this particular phone and then, when you strip down other key aspects of being a Blackberry one of those things is the touchpad using the touchpad to navigate to scroll through articles to scroll through emails and to actually precision locate words when you're typing a document or email. It's its! It's a lifesaver, game-changer I can't believe they got rid of that I understand they were trying to do that for a price point, but there are certain things they could have done to lower the price point.

This is a Blackberry. After all, and its blackberry is known for their keyboards. They have to keep that full keyboard experience intact. You could, of, in my opinion, lowered the battery a little. It's a 3000 William hour battery, but the battery life on this is terrific.

I get perfect life on this, so maybe lower that to like a 2700, William hour, I, don't know or dual cameras right. They have dual cameras on here. Honestly, you don't need dual cameras. The camera on here is not that great. In the first place, it's its average, its usable, but when you're buying a blackberry, the people who are interested in this are not buying this.

For a smartphone experience, you'll be using the pixel 3 honestly or Samsung Galaxy, S, 9 or 10, or an iPhone 10s. You want to be looking at this phone if you're strictly buying this for a good camera experience, you want just an average camera experience. The camera experience on this is average already anyway, so you might as well strip that down use that a single camera and save the resources to use what you're known for, which is to keep that keyboard fully intact. As far as the typing experience goes on, this physical keyboard I feel like these are a little too tight to compact, together, and I mentioned this in the unboxing video and a couple of times on Instagram TV, oh plug. If you aren't following this on Instagram TV, we post a lot of exclusive content there, a lot of behind the scenes, a lot of like raw content where I'm just talking about stuff like wow feelings when I something and I mentioned this about the BlackBerry key to LE the keyboard, is tighter that the keys are not as spaced out or not as laid out spaciously as they should have, and I get what they were trying to do.

They're trying to compact it more to fit into this layout, whereas something like the Drive, which was the last BlackBerry I tested out the privet, a very spacious layout, and it typed much faster on the print. For the sake of testing out this phone actually pulled out. The privet I started typing on it, and I was more accurate on that even to this day than I am on this blackberry key to LE other things. I didn't like, however, about this keyboard is the fingerprint scanner embedded in the space bar. That's a very nice place.

To put it, it feels like a home button in old, iPhones or Samsung's, and it just it's the right place to put it, and it's very accurate, I haven't, had trouble with this particular fingerprint scanner. As far as camera goes, I already touch based on it a little. It's average. It's not that important on this particular camera. You're not buying a blackberry for its camera, has two cameras, one for depth and ones.

It's the main sensor there, and honestly I felt like we could do away with one of them like I, said before the results here are average you're just buying this for average user, where you're not really using this to take Instagram photos you're not using to take food photos for Yelp you're, not doing stuff, you would do on the pixel. Three will fit on here, you're using this as a business-oriented phone for references here to take a photo of a document there. So, honestly, the camera is good enough for what it needs to do for business enterprises, but it's definitely not one of the best cameras on the market, and you're not expecting that when you're buying a blackberry- and those are my thoughts on the blackberry key to l. e I- do think you should avoid this phone, especially with the key to out there in the price drop on the key to you. Do need that performance bump from this particular phone and as far as blackberry, keyboards go I.

Don't think this is one of the better ones out there like blackberry, had a better layout and missing the actual trackpad I, still think is a drastic loss in the BlackBerry performance and as far as blackberry software goes if you're buying this for the security aspect of the BlackBerry's blackberry puts their software, their email clients all that stuff on the Google Play Store now, so you can actually download that for any Android phone, so I feel like that aspect of a BlackBerry is no longer proprietary to Blackberry phones. So you don't really need to go on and buy a blackberry to get the BlackBerry experience. You just get the BlackBerry experience in the keyboard so once again, I'm a second attack that you guys so much for watching the video. Let me know what you guys: think of this blackberry key to Ellie and what you think of physical keyboards in general. Are you totally over it? Have you completely moved on, or are you still kind of nostalgic for that, occasionally once again I'm Alex to Center Tech, then you got so much watching the video, and I'll see you guys very soon? Peace, if you like this video, is sure to subscribe and hit the bell button on the bottom so that you can get few trailers for when our videos come out and be sure to comment like and all that good stuff.

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