BlackBerry KEY2 Review By India Today Tech

Many people don't believe that blackberry is still making phones. After all, that happened to Android and after all that happened to blackberry, it is making phones, although in India it is being manufactured by Optimum. The BlackBerry phones are still in the market and the latest one we have is the BlackBerry key ? the key to keeps the classic blackberry design refreshed with the new materials hardware and software you're watching you know today, Tech I'm Rahul city and in this video I'm, going to tell you about the BlackBerry key ?, what all new things it has, and how is it better than the key one? The key ? is a cleaner and sleeker key one, while it's still housing at all screen at one end and a physical key ID at the other. Everything around this package has received a fresh coat of paint on the back. The phone has a distinct Fox leather texture that feels good in the hands. Besides assisting in confident grip in a sea of big slippery glass phones, the key ? brings a refreshing change.

That instantly makes you sit back and notice, but coming back to the key to the phone feels perfect in the hands the outer frame is carved out of CDs 7000 aluminum, even though key 2 is lighter than the key 1. This metal mid-frame imparts considerable heft to it, or at least it provides an assurance that the phone is rock solid though it's not as heavy as the blackberry Passport, for example, as for the tall display, it's good to see blackberry minimizing the bezels, especially on the top. This adds to the overall need and sophisticated look in style of the Kids uses curved 2.5, big Corning, Gorilla Glass 3 for protection. The bottom end of the display has physical capacitive keys for navigation, which are also backlit. Although the keyboard itself is touch sensitive, and you can use that too for navigation, the keyboard comes with a smooth matte finish, unlike the key one that came to the glossy keyboard.

If you love physical keyboards on phones, this is by far the best physical keyboard experience. You will get on a modern day, blackberry phone. This is because the key to offers a neat combination of old-world, charm and new-age features in equal measure. It supports touch gestures like scrolling, so you can use it as a trackpad to scroll through web pages and flick typing for predictive texting, although you can also use virtual on-screen keyboard for typing, and that comes pretty handy when you're looking for symbols that don't reside on the keyboard, the keys also have 52 app shortcuts in the form of short and long press. This means every key on the key to keyboard is programmable to open something or the other.

The new speed key on the key ? lets you use custom shortcuts that can allow you to open any app or shortcut from any screen. This makes multitasking on the phone one of the fastest in Android space, the fingerprint scanner is put beneath the space bar key, which is quite economic to use, though the HOME key is still a capacitive one. The fingerprint scanning is fast, but it can be a little inconsistent at times for a change all the physical buttons, the volume rocker. The power button on the smart convenience key is all placed in one row on the right side: the well-built and offer excellent tactile feedback, the key to like all modern Blackberry phones once Android. More specifically, it runs Android 8.1 Oreo and an almost stock version of it. Apart from the Android, look and feel you get security suit from blackberry and a bunch of other apps.

The blackberry hub, for example, is a unified inbox that integrates notifications from apps, like Gmail outlook, says book, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as calendar event and phone calls and text messages all at one place. The productivity tab, on the other hand, gives you quick access to items calendar hub contacts and more by swiping from the right. The key to is also being pitched as the most secure Android phone in the world and black-body claims that it will receive security patches the same day that Google pushes them out. But the unique thing about the phone is its security. The phone is highly encrypted and there are a few security aspects that you can monitor and control yourself.

The DEC security app, for example, can notify you whenever an app like Google requests, sensitive data like location and microphone. It also keeps a log on how many times Google actually asks for permission, especially your location or microphone each day. The key to, in addition, comes with an in-house locker, where you can store sensitive files, apps in photos. You can hide sensitive apps as well in the locker from the home screen, and you can also use the fingerprint scanner on the key to as a shutter button. If you want your photos to be clicked and stored directly into the locker, but compelling to a regular Android phone, the key too has a rather unusual display, a 4.5 inch 1080p IPS LCD screen with an unusual aspect: ratio of 3 to 2. It's designed for web scrolling, jotting down notes sending out emails and stuff, but it is clearly not designed for multimedia consumption, everything from Netflix to YouTube, to regular 1080p videos.

You have saved on your phone will appear letterboxed, that is thick black borders appear on the top and the bottom of the video vertically playable games. Work well, but playing games on the key to in landscape orientation can be a daunting task again. It is not the best phone out there for gaming, and the big reason for that is key to is not as high-end as are the high-end phones in the market. It's a more mid-tier phone with Qualcomm snapdragon 616 chips, clubbed with 6 GB of RAM and 64gb of storage. Just further expandable wired micros card, it's not as powerful as phones like the 1 plus 6, with a snapdragon 845.

But then the key to is a design for different audience. It is designed for those who would use their phones more for productivity than multimedia consumption. Also, the BlackBerry key 2 has a 3500 mAh battery inside it. That gives a backup of more than a day on extensive use, I use where most big screen Android phones would die by late evening. Now, the least exciting part about the BlackBerry.

He, too, is its cameras. It has a dual camera setup at the back with 12 megapixel primary sensor and a secondary sensor, which is also 12 megapixels in resolution paired to a 2x zoom lens. We did take a few photos with the key too, but they came out only decent in good light. Dynamic range is unsatisfactory and white balance is off almost all the times unless you are shooting indoors. HDR doesn't help much either often resulting in photos that are softer and over saturated with not enough detail.

Surprisingly, the key to can shoot good portrait shots when the lighting is good. Low-Light photos again have a lot of noise and can't compete with that taken from phones in a spice range on the front. The key 2 comes with an 8 megapixel camera with F 2 points with aperture, and it's quite disappointing. You can barely compete with budget segments. Phones, let alone the premium ones with the key to blackberry, has managed to preserve the classical black bunny experience.

Despite giving a very practical touch to it, you get a tactile physical keyboard, and it is paired to the latest Android in features like fast charging that you get on. Recent Android smartphones, let us know your thoughts on blackberry Kit in the comment section below also, if you liked this video hit the thumbs up button and share it with your friends, subscribe to our channel to get the latest videos and technology like this. Thank you for watching.

Source : India Today Tech