Blackberry Key2 LE Unboxing: The Budget Key2! By Tim Schofield

Hey everyone Tim Schofield here nowadays, you really only have a couple options when it comes to getting a phone with a physical keyboard, they're very hard to come by. However, BlackBerry has stuck to their roots and actually made Android phones with a physical keyboard. Earlier this year, blackberry came out with the key to which I had videos on I will link to them down below. However, they also released the key to L e, which is the less expensive a little smaller version. So I want to go ahead and unbox. It shows off the phone itself, also compare it to the key to which I have right here.

So you can see the design differences all that good stuff and in terms of price difference right now, the key to Ellie is $450, whereas the key to is $650 to kind of give you a frame of reference I'll link to both of those down below. So here is the key to LE, as you can see: 32 gigs of storage and 4 gigs of ram, whereas the key to has 6 gigabytes, to give you some other specs on the back here notice that it has a 3000 William hour battery. He, too, has a 3500 William hour battery. Another key difference is that processor and the Ellie has a Snapdragon 636, whereas the key 2 has a Snapdragon 660, which will be a little better. So here is key to Ellie, let's open it on up for the first time and right away, we got the phone set that to the side for just a second show you real quick.

What else comes in the box, it booklets and a sim ejection tool, and then inside you get in-ear headphones, which is always nice to see in look at what this headphone these headphones have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. That is because this phone actually has one up: it's actually on the top of the phone and then finally, you do have your AC power adapter and then your USB type-a, 2, USB, type-c, charging, cable and peeled everything off. Let's go ahead and press the power button, which is in the exact same spot, is that on the key to and while it boots up, I would like to take a closer look at the led own at the bottom USB-C charging port speaker grille, moving along on the right side, is where all your buttons are. You have a convenience key. You have the power button, which has some texture to it to help you differentiate, and then your volume rockers moving along up towards the top headphone jack microphone left sides where that SIM slot is I'm noticing how light this phone actually is.

It feels very light feels lighter than the LE actually and then, of course, your physical keyboard down at the bottom, with capacitive buttons above it and then of on the back dual camera system and a drippy texture to the back, almost like a rubbery feel to it. It feels pretty good and I. Don't think I'm going to be able to drop this phone because there is a lot of grip to it, and before we grab the key to I will run through the startup process. Only talk about aiming no worthy, including that fingerprint scanner setup, so let's set up that fingerprint scanner which is embedded into the space bar. All we have to do is just go ahead and lift and set our finger on down.

This is a really nice implementation for that fingerprint scanner, because, of course, when it's flat on the table, you can easily unlock it with your thumb and that's it, you can add another if you'd like to I'm just going to skip through now. There are both the phone side-by-side, the Le and the key to overall, not a crazy amount of differences in terms of height. They look just about the same width. I would say the key to is just a little wider than the Le, but, like I said, you can tell that the Le is definitely lighter, of course, 500 William hour battery difference does make a difference now in terms of feel they do feel different on the back. There's just a different texture, a little softer touch with the Le.

A little more rough and just smaller spaces between diamonds, as opposed to circles on the Le down at the bottom, is a difference in the speaker, grilles and overall, that's really about it. In terms of design differences, the keyboard height seems to be just about the same. The key twos is just a little higher, as you can tell there, you'll see the buttons are the exact same on both keyboards, so really no difference in terms of pressing it. It feels very similar. I would say overall I find that the key to feels just a little more premium, I think it has to do with the weight and the materials they use, as opposed to the Le feeling a little more light.

Both phones have a 4.5 inch. Lcd with Android, 8.1 or EO and overall blackberry does have their own skin over Android. However, it's not crazy intrusive. They do have a separate convenience key that you can press right there, which you'll see by default activates the Google Assistant, so essentially just a Google Assistant shortcut out of the box. Ten point: two one gigs out of the 32 gigs is used, which is a little high, of course, since the keyboard has so many buttons there's a lot of shortcuts that you can customize with the keyboard.

Of course, we can customize the convenience key. If you'd like to it's just a lot of different things, you can do having physical buttons. There is a little work on the D button, which will kind of let you know where to rest. Your fingers I find that at first it does take a while to get used to a physical keyboard again, but once you use it for just about a week, you can get really fast and good at it and, like I said not, many phones have keyboards out there so blackberries, despite your only option. So, if I just want to go ahead and type that I can real, quick thanks for watching I, do really appreciate you being here feel free to give this video a thumbs up.

If you enjoyed it, that's the BlackBerry key to Ellie again all links down below very interesting I'm, a big fan of physical keyboards myself. So that's about it hope you enjoyed the video, be sure to click that subscribe button as well and as always guys. Thank you very much for watching.

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