Blackberry KEY2 LE Review - Cheapest Smartphone with a Keyboard By Redskull

What's happening everyone, my name is Alex and welcome back to a new review. Today we are checking out one of the cheapest phones available on the market that has a physical keyboard and well one of the few phones available on the market that has a physical keyboard. So this right here it's called the BlackBerry t2 LE, and this is basically the light version of the original blackberry KET. Now, when I said that cheapest I'm talking about four hundred and fifty dollars and that's definitely not cheap, but just like a lot of other phones available on the market, you're paying for the brand name- and this is still a blackberry, no matter how you look at it now. The main difference between this and the original blackberry key to is the fact that this phone is made out of plastic. The other one is made out of metal, and this one doesn't feel as premium.

However, it doesn't feel cheap by any means. We get the same four point: five-inch screen with a 1080p resolution, and we get a very similar looking keyboard. However, the keyboard on this one is 10% smaller, but you'd probably never notice. If I wouldn't tell you, the fingerprint scanner sits in the space bar, so just as it did on the original key ? and in my case the fingerprint scanner on this one works better, and it is faster I'm, not sure why, but it is definitely faster. Unfortunately, we lose the trackpad capabilities of the keyboard, so the original key ? you could scroll on your finger up and down left or right and on the keyboard, and that was like a big trackpad.

Well, this one, we lose that, so the keyboard is just a keyboard typing on this keyboard will kind of take you back in time back to those days when everyone used to have a blackberry, pulled or a pearl, or something like that, and that if you've had a blackberry in the past, the experience will feel very, very familiar, but if you've never used the keyboard like a physical keyboard in the past. Well, this will feel a bit strange and me personally. After using this for over a month, I can still say that I'm faster typing on the screen than on this keyboard. So it's nice typing on this keyboard, because you don't actually have to look at it after a while, because you kind of learn where the keys are, which is the opposite to the touchscreen, because with that you can do have to look at the screen at all times. But I don't think that typing on this keyboard is actually faster than typing on the screen.

We still have all the keyboard shortcuts. So, for example, if I press Y, the YouTube app opens, if I press C chrome opens and so on, and we also have that fast key. So you can switch between apps, and after you use that for a while you're going to notice that switching between apps is much faster than on other devices. But again, you're going to have to use the phone for a while because I'm, if you just start using it, is going to take a while, and it feels somewhat unnatural at first but after a while, and after you get used to ETS, those shortcut keys are actually very, very useful. The phone also retains the 3.5 million that sitting at the top, and that's definitely something nice to heaven. We also keep the convenience key that sits just below the power button.

In my case, I've set up the Google Assistant on the convenience key. So every time I press the convenience key, the Google Assistant um opens so definitely very convenient. Unfortunately, the rear cameras were kind of downgraded from the original key to so now, on the back, we have a 13 megapixel sensor and a 5 megapixel sensor, and if you have plenty of light, the pictures do look. Ok, I mean the edge detection is OK if you use the portrait mode, but as soon as it gets dark. The picture quality decreases quite a lot, and it's kind of difficult to take anything in focus if it's dark, so yeah rear cameras.

Aren't that amazing on this device, and it's kind of expecting a bit more because the phone isn't exactly cheap. The same goes for the 8 megapixel front facing camera. As long as you have plenty of light, the pictures turn out. Ok as soon as you don't have enough light. All the pictures don't turn out that great, so the heroes on this device aren't spectacular, and they're.

Only okay, if you haven't plenty of light, we also get a bit of a downgrade performance wise, but only in a way because this phone, we get the Snapdragon, 636 and 4 gigs of ram, and you can get this from the either 32 or 64 gigs of internal storage. Now, yes, the benchmark results are a bit lower than you'd get on the key ?, but I feel that the software on these devices actually better optimized in the software that we had on the key -. Therefore, this phone actually feels speedier than the key ?, so the key ? I used to have lag for a lot of apps. Well, that's not the case with this one. So if you open the Facebook app for example, or anything like that, there is almost no lag with this device where the key to actually had lag with a bunch of apps.

So the software optimization on this one is better, even though we get a lower performing CPU, since we have a somewhat unusual three by two screen ratio, of course, watching videos and playing games may not be the best experience out there, but um you're going to have to give some things up if you want a physical keyboard. So whenever you're watching videos, you have a black bar at the top and a black bar at the bottom, and while the screen is quite small and whatever you're playing games. Well, it's kind of difficult to hold the phone because you have the keyboard at the bottom, so those are some downsides to having a physical keyboard, because if you'd have a six-inch screen and a keyboard and the phone be pretty big, another small downgrade from the kit would be the smaller battery inside this device. But that also makes the phone lighter. So you say this one: we have a 3000 William hour battery versus a thirty-five hundred million power battery in the key to known one charge.

You can definitely make it run entire then get between six and eight hours of Scranton, but I think that the key to I used to make it up the second day without any issues. Now the phone supports fast charging as well, and the charging the phone only takes about an hour and a half. So if you run out of battery, you can easily charge it in like an hour and a half. So there you have it. This is the BlackBerry key to LE the cheapest phone available and the physical keyboard, and me personally don't mind the fact that the phone is made out of plastic I, don't mind that we have a smaller battery I, don't mind that we are missing that trackpad on from the keyboard.

The only thing I wish to have been better were the cameras. I wish this one would have had the same cameras as the original key too, because I actually prefer this phone in many ways and over the original key to the phone feels speedier the fingerprints. The scanner feels faster, the phone is lighter and so on, so I actually preferred this phone over the key to, but just not the cameras. The cameras aren't that great, alright guys hopefully enjoyed this video. If you did like it, press that, like button, don't forget, subscribe, and I'll see you in the next one.

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Source : Redskull