BlackBerry KEY2 LE First Look! By CrackBerry

Hey everybody cracker D Kevin here live from Berlin Germany, where I just came out of a BlackBerry briefing to take a look at the newest BlackBerry coming to market. It is the new sibling of the BlackBerry t2, which came out earlier this year, and it is another member of the key to family. It is the blackberry key to L e or light Edition lots of things to talk about today, and I'm going to talk fast because I have to get these phones back to more briefing shortly. Please come through. Crack berry. Com really is a life like quick.

Take here so first thing about the by creaky to LE is it doesn't come in black, so you'll remember the key to comes in this beautiful silver version, and it comes in a blacked out version, but we're talking three colors with the L II. There is slate, which is your closest thing to black, but it's a little more of like a blue gray type of Stevie, look which is cool. You have champagne. So if you look at the trim of this, it is that gold color with the navy, is blue keyboard and back really classy, really subtle, but nice a little of pop to it. But speaking of pop you've got my favorite here: you've got the blackberry key to Ellie.

In a topic, it's red check out the frets between the keys. They are red and glistens. It kind of makes you smile when you look at it, and it's just an all-round hot-hot-hot device. If I have to pick between the three you know me: I'm always going to give you my color recommendation. If you can get it this is it so at a glance when you compare the phones, they look like they're from the same family right.

There are subtle differences, though, and I'll go through them as quick as I. Can the first thing is materials, so the key to metal, metal all the way around heavy duty. This is a lighter device. It's a few grams, lighter I. Think you pick it up, and it's deceptively light for the size, but it's making a better use of polycarbonate.

Take a plastic, but nothing feels cheaper plastic about it. You pick it up and there's nothing that makes you think. Oh, this is you know above much lesser price point than this. It really feels good in the hand lighter but night when you look at the keyboard compared to the key one, it's still a bigger keyboard by about 10%, but you can see that the keys are a little smaller than the layout on the key ? and the design is a bit different, where here it's kind of flat with spacing between the rows. This goes back to the frets.

We're actually more accustomed to on a device like the key one screen is the same. All around, which is cool, processor, gets a bump up from the key one. It's a 636 Snapdragon. When it comes to RAM. You got four gigs of ram versus six by default and when it comes to storage, this starts at 32 gigs, whereas this is starting at 64, but there's a 64 gig version available.

So another thing on the keyboard he just makes for a little simpler device. Are they got rid of the capacitive touchpad try on the keyboard, so you can't swipe up flick typing and that kind of thing you know scroll with it in absolutely web browser. Some people are going to miss that some people won't ever even know it existed. If they're upgrading for an older BlackBerry's I've never had that, you know. For me, it's not a big deal.

The only thing I really would miss is I like to swipe back left to delete words when I know, use the wrong word and I want to fix a mistake or something other than that most of the device holds true to the key to, so it's a perfect value proposition and speaking of value. The price of the big thing here so every day on my Twitter feed, Instagram feed, YouTube channel I, get comments, saying Kevin I'd love to buy a key too, but I just don't have the money right now, it's a little too expensive for me, because this thing started that I think 649 or $69649 and everybody's like. If it only cost, you know under $400 I buy it, and it does it's 399 us at the 32 32 gig versions. If you go with the 64 gigs of storage, which is what it's going to start in the US with I, think it when you see it roll out, there expect to see at 449, which is a pretty good price point in the marketplace. You know there's not as many phones competing in that space and I think this just becomes a much more accessible type of phone to go.

After for those who can't go for the two more Pro, more clingy, you know standard key ? with all its metal trim and I think this is just a fun phone. You know if I go back the old Crack Berry Kevin days, the early years. You know we had two phones right. We had the curves and with the bowls you know even before that you kind of had the 8800 series black berry compared to the curve when they were first coming to the market, and you know they were a different design like much more different device ID, whereas these are quite similar looking, but there's something here when I pick them up. That's that's what I feel, so I don't feel like this is a cheap key, ? I feel like there's something curvy about it and an in reality.

When even look at it, you know they kind of curved out the edges a bit more and when you look at the side, you know the key to in the hand, is a little sharper to grab and hold, and this is a little more curved, and it feels just friendlier and a little more approachable, which was kind of how the curves we're back in the day compared to like the 88 hundreds in the first bowls. So in my head, I just feel like again: everything old is new again and we kind of are revisiting now, like a more affordable, accessible friendlier. Colorful curved type of phone, but it's the key to Ellie, and then you've got your more sort of pro professional. You know more standard color like really the executive phone, and you're you're sort of eight hundred or bold series, and it's kind of like the old playbook revisited and I. Think it's a smart call, because again more price points as more options.

I think it's easier for, like you know, customers to go into the store, and maybe they're thinking they want this one because it's cheaper. But then they pick up this one and some people going to be like oh I'm, just I'm going to spend the extra 250 on it and then other people are like I want this, but I can't get it. But you know this has all the stuff that really matters to me. So they're going to go in for that, and you know snapping some photos. I think the sensors are maybe a little different, but I've been seeing perfect photos on this comparable to key to for my testing.

So far, so I think it's going to pass the know it's a pretty good phone all around. You know pretty good price, pretty good camera out, pretty good specs. You know one thing I didn't mention in terms of that cost savings is on battery. This is the 3,500 William hour battery. This is 3000 a little smaller, but everybody I've talked to today is very adamant.

That's gonna! Get you through a full day of charge, which is really what it's about. You know. I, don't need two days of charge: I'm going to plug it in when I go to bed, but you know some days: I'm gonna, wake up like today at 5:30 in the morning, and I'm going to go to bed. It like well I, think there's a blackberry party tonight, so I'm probably not going a bit until 5:30, but it's probably going to get me through that full day, no problem, but if I'm rocking it pretty hard, even while roaming and traveling and that's something- that's been really solid for me with all the BlackBerry key devices we've had since the key one, the key to, and I think the key to Ellie is going to hold up to that. So with that I need to run upstairs and drop.

These off drop a note in the comments below whether you're, seeing this on YouTube on the Crack Berry site or anywhere else, and let me know what you think of the key to Ellie, which color would you go for it? Would it be slate, would it be champagne, or is it going to be a topic? That's it for this one Kevin.

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