BlackBerry KEY2 Review || The Perfect Storm By Jared Busch

Oh, I tried honey, child I tried, so the BlackBerry key to man I so wanted this to be. My daily driver like there's a little of pride at play, because blackberry is a Canadian company. Blackberry was also my first smartphone, and it's just so different with that physical keyboard. It's like that cool new kid from school. Everyone wants to meet him and be friends with him right up until they realize he's actually a dick, but after trying Hayworth air is trying to love this phone. For the past couple of weeks, I've started to question how relevant blackberry is.

In today's market, like the design is Super-duper subjective, I mean it's just a slab with four flat sides. It's a solid as a brick, though there's no glass back, so no fingerprints, the plastic is textured, so it strangely feels like rubber but textured for your pleasure and I like the button placement on the right side. Like a power button is perfectly placed for my thumb, there's a mono speaker on the bottom, and it's surprisingly, not terrible, but I still think you'll find that the audio quality of you singing magic stick in the shower is better than what this speaker is capable of producing. So you know how most phones these days have on-screen buttons. Well, so does the key to just kidding that would have been the smart thing to do.

Instead, they went with capacitive buttons, which for me, has been a pain in the ass for two reasons: one they're terribly inaccurate, like I swear, my thumb tips got arthritis from smashing those buttons over and over and two you know how. Back in the day, we used to have the option of choosing how long the capacitive buttons backlight stays on for yeah. We don't get that here. So after about 10 seconds, the light turns off and since they're so bloody inaccurate. Well, let's just say, while using it I need to take deep breaths sometimes the four-and-a-half inch 1080p IPS LCD is all right like colors are pretty decent.

It's a sharp display with 434 pixels, but four and a half inches is just too small these days, at least for me. That's what she said and watching video content on it sucks letter boxing for days, I just can't take it anymore. Now the keyboards been improved with a key one, with bigger keys and an overall higher quality keyboard. Wouldn't it be nice if that actually helped yeah no typing on this phone sucks at the start, I thought I just needed some time to get used to it, but after a couple of weeks, I just couldn't do it like. It took me infinitely more time to reply to an email or text than with a virtual keyboard.

Here's the up part, though very deep in the keyboard settings, is the autocorrect accuracy slider. It was set to week, Y, so I bumped it up to very strong, and it did make a huge difference, but even still I had to be super deliberate, while typing, which slowed me down considerably, never seen a seven-year-old type on a keyboard yeah. Ah, that's me on this thing: okay, I'll m-e, the software's a tricky one for me here, because I love the insane amount of customization in the form of mapping every bloody key on the keyboard to a shortcut or action and using the convenience key to do the same. Like personally, I have mine set up as sort of an alert slider like on the 1 + 6, but the key to is so bloody way down my blackberry software that, even with a snapdragon, 666 6 gigs of ram the only way I can even remotely justify the $650 price tag is with the security software dude blackberry software makes Samsung's look like stock Android. So if you're, a tinfoil hat, err and willing to trade sanity for security, to hide all the shady you're up to I, don't know I! Guess the sacrifice is worth it for you.

The dual rear facing 12 megapixel camera setup is literally just ok. Images are better than most cheap-ass Chinese phones, but only slightly blowing out highlights yeah get used to those in the majority of your shots, sharpness, yeah, I, guess a little dynamic range, no color. Reproduction washed out, like Nicolas Cage's career bird, although portrait mode is acceptable a little over half the time, front-facing camera selfies. Now just no! So then does the key to have any redeeming qualities sort of. If you want to call it a redeeming quality battery life.

Is mental I can push the out of this bass or and get a full day without it, breaking a sweat, a Dana half easy with my normal usage and a comfortable two days with light usage. So final thoughts um, if all you care about, is great battery life and probably the highest level of security on a modern smartphone yeah man go for it, but if you're, like 99% of the rest of us, that actually wants something that justifies the price tag then get literally any other phone blackberry. If you're watching this there's a special place in my heart for your brand, but there's no reason why you can't make a phone call to others on the market right now, stop focusing on all the security and start working on a more consumer centered phone, but for you guys go out of business because this can't be sustainable. Anyways fanboys mad at me in the comments, but for everyone else. If you liked the video showing you some love of that like button and if you're new to my stuff, don't forget to subscribe for new videos every week, but thanks as always for watching, and I'll talk to you on the next one.

Cheers.

Source : Jared Busch