Blackberry KEYone Limited Edition Black Review - QWERTY Goodness! By C4ETech

Blackberry's back in the game with a new key one here in India, a special limited edition, black variant with a few key changes, is being sold for 40,000 rupees after using that as my primary smartphone for about a week. Here are my talks on it, but before we get to that, if this is your first time here or engage the resurgence of the QWERTY keyboard, has you lost in a wave of nostalgia? My name is ash. This is slippery tech, and you're, watching our full review of the BlackBerry key 1. Let's get started so, as always. Let's start with the building design. Now I've never used a BlackBerry smartphone before, so I'm, not a QWERTY fanatic, but I couldn't help but be impressed by the build and design here in the vast sea of similar-looking smartphones.

The key one does stand out at aware of 180 grams. It's not the lightest at the thickness of nine point four millimeters. It is nowhere close to being the slimmest, but it does manage to feel great at hand. Furthermore, it's different, its unique and after a long time, thanks to that soft touch, plastic pack I appreciate it being able to use a phone without the fear of dropping it, but where the key one is a perfect example of why brands need to innovate with build and that slippery smooth metal of glass aren't necessarily the only material choices to have a premium feel in the hand, appreciate blackberry for not compromising on economics. Now, let's take a closer look at the placements to the front.

On top there's an 8 megapixel selfie camera with a single LED flash, the European sirs of 4.5 inch, IPS LCD, display below that capacitive keys and BlackBerry's ever-popular physical QWERTY keyboard. Both the keyboard and the capacitive keys are backlit. There is also a fingerprint scanner. That's built into the straight part, we'll talk about all that in a bit. The power button is really placed to the left, but you might never have to use it.

You use the fingerprint scanner to wake the device and Doubleday the display to turn it off and by the way, as you can see, the fingerprint scan a square snappy. It even manages to work when the fingers a little wet, not back replacements, to the bottom, that the primary microphone, a USB, type-c port and a loudspeaker, the volume rockers the convenient key and a hybrid slot can be found to the right. You can either pop to NATO sense or a similar micro SD card. Now that's a change from what we've seen on the global variant, the compact. Well, the global variant was built by TCL.

The limited edition black variant sold in India is built by optimism for Chrome up top there's a secondary noise-cancelling microphone, a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack to the back. We find a 12 megapixel camera with a dual LED flash and Blackberry planning thanks to the presence of a physical keyboard. The display is short. Oh, the three is to do aspect ratio. This means that its literal solution is an awkward 1620 by 1080, so you have to live with black bars to the top and bottom, while watching a video, most arts and games.

Those seem to scale fine, but there is the occasional one that refuses to, even though that scales to have some unusable space around, so those are display is 4.5 inches. If your Nvidia are playing games is important to remember. The actual usable display is even smaller. That said, the display itself is quite good at 433 pixels per inch. It's sharp with good color representation.

The viewing angles are excellent, and it does get bright enough. We have no issues using the keyboard outdoors and with that, let's move on to what's found underneath the hood. The blackberry key one is probably extremely power: efficient, Snapdragon, 625 chips, the limited edition black key one being sold in India, unlike the global PCL version, has 64 gigs of on-board storage and an extra bebop ROM. That's four gigs of RAM. The 625 is a sweet, mid-range chip, and it delivers mostly even with intense gaming.

It did manage to run games quite smoothly without any issues. The audio via the single speaker was quite loud, and we have no issues with cellular reception or call quality. Do note that the key one does come with multi support out of the box. Now all this is backed up by a 3500 5 William hour non-user replaceable battery and the battery life on this phone was created. That was kind of something that we expected, given the fact that the six-to-five is extremely power efficient, and it has to push less pixels and power.

A relatively smaller display, getting through a day of moderate usage on a single charge, seemed to be no issue for the sky. Now, even on days with heavy usage, where I have to use GPS, quite a bit, I still manage to get through the entire day without needing to plug the key one in so props to blackberry. Here next up, let's talk cameras. First, the interface. It looks good, a lot of filters to choose from there's even a manual mode you can enable in the settings it offers, control over everything, I associate a speed, white balance, focus moving on under good lighting conditions, the 12 megapixel rear camera delivers the images shot.

A very sharp the color reproduction is great. The dynamic range is excellent, given the lack of optical image stabilization and the relatively narrow, f 2.0 aperture, the image quality and the low-light does take a bit of a hit. It's not bad. Don't get me wrong, but at this price, you'd expect it to perform better than that squeeze the OnePlus file, which it doesn't the eight megapixel front facing camera, can capture some nice selfies, not the sharpest we've seen, but the colors look great, and the dynamic range is quite good. The key one can shoot 4k video at 30 frames per.

Second, the footage is sharp, but the exposure is spotty at best. There are some noticeable jitter stacks from the lack of OAS. There is support for EAS, but it works only when you shoot at 1080p 30fps. There is a 1080p 60fps option, but E it doesn't work there. So unless you badly one stable footage, I would recommend you shoot at 4k because it looks that much better.

So let me I have thoughts about this camera and the comments below. And on that note, let's now move on the software. The keyword runs on Android 7.1, nougat and blackberries added a few customizations to it most noticeably. The recent apps screen and app icons, for example, swiping up or down on an app would open up a widget could write. Other handy features include DEC security, app that keeps an eye on the operating system to make sure everything's safe and secure the classic blackberry hub that collects all the messages you receive on all your messaging apps across the device like Gmail, messenger, slack, Twitter and so on.

The productivity tab kind of like the edge features you'd get on some Berlin devices. Apart from these new Hatsune features like multi window and quick switch are present and accounted for. Now. Remember we mentioned a convenience key to the right now. This is what the Bigamy key on DSA it should have been.

It is a key that you can love to just about anything and on top of that, blackberry makes us feel spoiled for choice by letting us map every single key in the keyboard to do actions, one progress and another Salon Press. Now this amounts to an overwhelming total of 52 possible shortcuts. Plus blending is key. The difference is that the convenience key works from anywhere be playing a game or, while browsing the Internet, tell me about browsing. The physical keyboard here also doubles as a trackpad.

Let you scroll through apps or pages without having to touch the screen given a smaller display. This is something that I found very useful and refreshing, especially when using the phone in landscape mode know, this review will be incomplete if I don't talk about the QWERTY keyboard, I mean that is the USPTO. Remember, I have never used a blackberry phone in the past, so the beginning with I was indifferent to the QWERTY keyboard. The first two days typing felt perfect. The tactile feedback erase that's something I really loved, but I was also kind used to swiping around with split key and I missed.

That I said I was taking way too long to do regular things that I would do much faster with a virtual keyboard, but, as the days went by I realized with a physical keyboard, you get to type lined a lot easier than you can, with a virtual keyboard being able to fill, the keys was a great advantage and before the end of the week, the way I looked at QWERTY keyboards did change quite a bit. This will learn to the breaker. For me, they are the must-haves, but I don't feel they're a waste of space either anyway, on this phone, the keyboards create the customization options that BlackBerry's provided. That's just icing on the cake. So back we go to the software experience.

It's quite optimized in stable. The key one was reasonably responsive, but did run into the occasional glitch from time to time. There was the odd app or game that just refused to reload from memory and needed to be killed and restarted. I think there aren't more to do with scaling optimization for the app rather than RAM management, which, for the most part, was good. Well, it definitely feels slower than flagships.

The key one does perform smoothly for mostly related tasks. Now most things have impressed me about the key one. The one thing that dent was the price, the key one retails for 40,000 rupees in India, and that's just way too high for the phone with the Snapdragon six-to-five chip inside. It's the key one, an excellent piece of hardware: yes, isn't it unique device, one that stands out from almost everything else in the market? Yes, was it refreshingly fresh to use with nice little software touches and a lot of attention to detail? Hell yes, but do all that warrant of 40k price tag? I, don't think so! Not unless that QWERTY keyboard is an absolute deal, breaker for you, the Galaxy S7, the LG G 6 per pixel, the OnePlus 5 hell, even the 1 2 3 D Kendra can all run circles around the keyboard in regard to performance. They sport, better cameras, larger and higher resolution.

Displays of the more standard aspect, ratio for /, a media consumption and all these phones are priced almost the same or are available cheaper, so the BlackBerry key one is a phone that we'd recommend only as having a physical QWERTY keyboard is an absolute necessity for you. So there you have it my two cents on the key one from blackberry. Do you agree with what about to see in this video? Do you disagree? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below if you love QWERTY keyboards and want phones with physical keyboards to make a roaring comeback share this video across all of your social media handles and also if you want to pick a key one up, we believe in directly into the description below use them against the channel lock. If you get hate this video, you know what to do, but if you did like it, go ahead, turn that into a thumbs up and if you feel that Bell oxide is annoying guys, I've gone through like 20 cuts, because I want to add noise. That's a reason why I should never be recording voice overs on a Sunday, but they go.

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