BlackBerry KeyOne review: A Bold return to form By Pocket-lint

Hey guys come here from pocket-lint, and it's fair to say, no smartphone maker has been forced up a learning curve more than BlackBerry's. Since the modern smartphone era began. The challenge has seen the company go from launching phones like this to making readied Alcatel z' like this one, but now we have the key one, and we think it's the best blackberry in a very long time. The key one is quite thick by modern standards, but it's generously curved edges and gritty plastic back, make it warm and comfortable in the hand. Despite being long, it feels well-balanced to the completely flat edge on the top keeps things interesting if nothing else, but it's the keyboard that's of most importance here. It's 4 rows with attractive metal, frets dividing them.

These help keep the key spaced apart for easier typing in classic BlackBerry fashion, the keys are sculpted, but not for the same degree as the classic bold keys. These are more like mini passport keys, with subtle, tapered edges, which are still enough to keep you from making too many mistakes. It's a softer click than all the keyboards too, but still easy to type on and should still please the physical QWERTY loyalists the surface of the keys is touch sensitive, so you can glide over them to swipe between screens through lists or choose predictive words while you're typing and, of course, there's that space bar with the fingerprint sensor built-in and those LED pulsing lights. That tell you when you can use it as a bonus you can assign to shortcut actions to each key one for when you click the key and one for when you long press it. It makes getting to your most used apps and functions.

Super quick, of course, there's the convenience key on the right edge, which you can add a shortcut action to as well. Other software benefits include the usual collection of enhancements, which we think improve on Android. There are the hubs for managing notifications, the DEC app for managing your security power center to control battery efficiency and the productivity tab to get you to your recent contacts, calendar events and reminders: let's not forget, device certs that enable you to search for pretty much anything anywhere on your phone. All this software is shown on a 3 by 2 ratio, four and a half inch 1080 by 1620 display, which is sharp, well-balanced and crisp, despite being LCD, not AMOLED, it's attractive and colorful with decent contrast. Its letterboxes pretty heavily for videos.

It's 3 by 2 ratio is better for reading web pages. Email and viewing photos. Performance is good too, despite not having a top-tier processor. The Snapdragon 625 inside paired with 3 gigabytes of RAM, offers a mostly smooth experience with only minor stuttering on some games and that's something we've seen on pretty much every Android phone. It's the battery, though that's the most impressive.

We were comfortably able to get to the end of a second workday, with a three thousand five hundred and five William hour battery with moderate use the heavy users. This should easily get you through a full day and even if it doesn't, it can charge up from naught to 50% in 36 minutes and, despite being the least of your worries on a blackberry, the 12 megapixel camera is surprisingly adequate to in good daylight shots focus quickly and results. A colorful, sharp and well-balanced low-light shots do get a bit noisy, but they're still good enough for casual use. If that was ever a device to convince blackberry, loyalists to jump on board Android the key one. Is if it's a more complete package than the previous and is a much more compelling device than either of the two most recent all touch phones, it might even be the device to convince older bee fans to leave their newer, iPhone or galaxy behind I'm cam and app cam Button on Twitter, and I'll see you again soon.

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