BlackBerry Key2 Review | Digit.in By Digit

If you're a millennial, the BlackBerry brand is bound to bring back some good memories. Blackberry phones and especially the BlackBerry keyboards, we're behind some furious texting in our times. That's changed now, as Android phones dominated by Chinese brands have taken over the world, but a blackberry remains a blackberry. Anyone seen still using one has very specific need from their devices and to cater to those very users. Blackberry brought the key to that's here with me: hey guys, I'm sure, Brigitte from Brigitte, and today we are reviewing the new BlackBerry key 2. Now the key to succeeds the key one that launched last year, and it has DNA through and through there's a qwerty physical keyboard, beefed up security and a lot of shortcut keys at rupees 40 2990.

Does it make sense to get a blackberry in this day and age? Well, let's find out a major part of the time I took reviewing the phone went into getting used to the physical keyboard after years of using a touch-based one once I settle in, though the keyboard on the key to actually helped improve my productivity. Every alphabet on the keyboard doubles up as a shortcut key you can assign shortcuts for both long and short press, meaning there can be 54 different shortcuts right in your hand, the keys in the key to s keyboard are a little larger and have a matte finish instead of glossy plastic in the previous one. There are also a lot more tactile, although, if you're used to a touch keyboard, the key travel will feel like an eternity. The keyboard also doubles up as a swipe navigation panel, swipe your fingers over the keys to type and navigate it's a handy way to scroll through a long article. The space bar also doubles up as a fingerprint sensor, which is quite fast.

The design is a lot more sophisticated than most Android phones. You see in the market. The rubberized back panel is anyway, a better choice than glass and the phone find space to offer all the required ports, including 3.5 mm headphone jack. Now, thanks to the big physical keyboard, the display had to be smaller. You get a 4.5-inch full HD panel and while it's good for reading text and documents and typing our text. Needless to say, this isn't the best display for watching videos and playing games, but I suppose anyone buying this phone has no time for either of them.

The key one last year was criticized for its underwhelming performance. The key to address is that, with the top-of-the-line mid-range stamp dragon 660 chipsets, that is coupled with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. Now the benchmark results will prove it's right up there with the likes of the a2 and the Nokia 7 plus. Now many of you would say the price doesn't justify the chipset used in the phone, but this is not a performance enthusiast phone. This one is for the power users who want a fast secure device, and the chipset is just about enough to provide a fast response time.

I used it to edit spreadsheets to browse articles and take photos and safe to say there wasn't any lag or slowdown now. The software and the key to is also customized for power users. This Android 8.1 audio with the latest security patch and the icons and menus looks a lot like stock Android. What's different here is the support for numerable shortcuts and security features. There's the D Ten app that monitors your security in real time, a privacy shade that shows only the part of the screen you're reading and read actor that blacks are the part of the screen with sensitive information.

The UI has a steep learning curve, yes, and it's not as intuitive as stock Android, but once you get the hang of it, you might start enjoying it now. This is also the first blackberry phone with a dual camera unit. You get a primary 12 MP camera with F 1.8 aperture and a secondary 12 MP camera with F 2.6 aperture. The secondary sensor here is used for 2 X optical zoom and portrait shots and for the most part, the photos from the key do look fairly well-balanced. We got sharp and detailed images in daylight, almost at par with most of the flagship phones.

The saturation is little on the high side, though, but limbs good on the first mall 4.5 inch display this PDF for quick focus, but the dynamic range leaves a lot to be desired. The camera is quite adept at capturing small details up close provided this enough light indoors. The color balance is preserved well enough, but there's a big loss in details and quite expectedly the low light mode here, isn't all that good. There's ample noise and a majority of the frame will be underexposed with next to no focus the key to is powered by a 3500 mAh battery. It gives a full day's worth of usage and supports quick charge 3.0 and comes with a fast charger out of the box, as you might have noticed, the key to isn't for everyone. It's for old BlackBerry users who still crave for a QWERTY keyboard, and it's actually a handy offering for power users as well.

Furthermore, it is the only phone that runs on Android and has a physical keyboard. The phone will be called out for its exorbitantly high price of rupees 40 2990, when you compare it against other mainstream phones, but in its own niche. The key to is a worthy upgrade over the key won last year. Well, that's all that we had to say about this phone if you liked it. Let us know in the comments and for more videos like this- do subscribe, padis hah dot in.

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