My BlackBerry Key2 LE Atomic Red Review: Too Many Compromises... By The Andres Segovia Show

Everyone at sundress and I'm going to have a casual review of the BlackBerry key to Lily. Now I have five pros and five cons. I want to share with you, and ultimately it'll be up to you to see which of those pros or cons, weighs more, and I'll determine whether this phone is worth picking up now for someone like me, then you would know that I actually don't get the high spec device just for the heck of it. I get it because, that's exactly what I need to run through different operations, and I've really run a lot of it through my phone communications, email, documentation, pictures a lot of media honestly, not just pictures. That's run through my devices, so camera is important. The speed of the processor is very important.

Its ability to handle multitasks is really, really important. So with all that, preface you already know, as I did when I went to pick this guy up, I knew that this was going to have a hard time keeping up with my needs, but still I wanted to give it a go, particularly because communication is still the most important aspect of a device, and communication is what BlackBerry does best, but let's dive right into it. The five pros I want to start off with the design. Look. This phone is light yet durable, even though it's a polycarbonate built it's its very well-built and the fact that it's got every feature you need nothing, you don't have that's actually really cool that you can still get it in a budget package, so the design, the design itself, the tactility of the keys.

It's just. It's really well done the button placement, it's on the sides, what everything is being on one hand and, of course, the textured back in a sea of glass. Anything that's textured in the back, not just for it not to fake, not to pick a fingerprint, but for not to slip out of your hand. That's a big deal. So, of course, they thought about that when they designed the phone, so that's a day with the BlackBerry key to in the black or a key one and I just gotta say this: what is up with red and me? You know it's, but this thing was just think begging, music buy me, and it's like well, fine I'd pick you up because it's something about red and here's.

The funny thing red is not even on my top five favorite colors, but four summers on the phone- it just looks fantastic I mean we asked a design. Let's move on to the keyboard. I already touched on that the keyboard itself. That's a very smart thing for blackberry to continuously improve how they kept improving it. I must say it's an it's a wonder how they keep that up and, of course, that's B key.

You know here's the thing when you're so used to typing on glass for so long, and you forget about the shortcuts that are afforded to you by a physical keyboard, going back to it and having to rediscover that was really amazing to be able to jump from one app to another, and I really did like all that I guess: shortcut: affordability, that's provided by a keyboard, a physical keyboard that cannot be duplicated. That cannot be duplicated by a digital keyboard. All right. The next thing up is the battery. Yes, this is the scaled-down battery from the BlackBerry key too, but it's still enough to get you by and especially for the entry-level device that this is, but I have that man.

This thing wasn't keeping up with me on a day. I was really pushing it hard, but then again not every single day. I'm going to be hot spotting for three hours, so she leaves in the hot spot at this and an event and I hot spot it for three hours, while simultaneously recording the entire event via the voice recorder on this. So that's where the battery drainage took place. So, of course, your mileage will vary depending on what you're doing it you're going to use.

You can use it for basic stuff sure this thing is not a gaming phone, so you shouldn't be pushing at that hard. But if you're like me, and you're going to be out of business events, and you rely on the battery a lot, then yes, this phone was not gonna. Last me, through halfway through the event because I was not going to rely on public Wi-Fi I'm too paranoid to try that, especially after the attempted hacking that happened to me over the winter of 2018, all right next thing up: USB type-c. If we're applauding this, obviously all the time wherever we see it, because it's the future and even on a budget device, we have USB type-c and quick charge through it. So that's another plus so way to go blackberry in that respect.

To make sure the USB type-c is on their devices, making them basically future-proof and as a little bonus, of course, the headphone jack up here now, of course, the bread-and-butter. What is up? What makes a blackberry of blackberry, security and productivity suite I? Don't need to go over that again, I'm sure you heard that ad nauseam from everywhere else, including BlackBerry's website, so you know about that I'm just done. You know that's one of the pros here. That's what you're getting when you're getting a Blackberry you're, not getting the fastest updates. You're, not gonna, be getting the latest security patch, because this is run in November and blackberries are gonna push out the ones that feels it's necessary because they're so confident in their I guess, hardening of the kernel and their security that you don't need.

Google's latest updates to make sure your device is secure to me. That's just some like gobbledygook, and they're, just being lazy to push it out, but whatever it's still secure device. That's fine by me. There are still ahead of a bunch of other devices out there anyway. But let's move on to the cons: have you noticed that I haven't really showed you anything on a display of this phone, but because it really isn't anything for me to show you bummer I'm, sorry, because I wiped this phone again there were so many times in the past week of usage, where I just gave up on the phone wiped it clean and said you know what I'm just done with this phone I'm going to pass it on, and then I'm like I just need to use that keyboard again, so I picked it up and just restored everything.

Then, after a while a few days of use- oh my goodness, I wiped this guy for the fourth time, because that's it that's it! So it's been two days since I wiped it and I haven't gone back to it, resisting the urge to power it back up because I know it's going to happen if you've seen MHD video of is the one plus six better than the pixel three excel. That's my exact dilemma. Whenever I use devices, it's an ongoing struggle even to 2019 yeah I, don't see that changing anytime now and that's just the way things go, but that's what I'm getting at! That's exactly what I? What I feel whenever I'm using this, because when you're, when you're, only relying on flagship devices, then of course anything with lesser specs, you're going to notice it, and this one man. It was hard to ignore the problem with the internal specs and this kind of goes into the point number two, but I'll get into more details at number. Two is that the camera, for example, being one of the most RAM intensive apps on any device? It was either a hitter, and it would annoy me because whether I was using the selfie cam, where the rear cam, even after a fresh restart the phone would just well the app itself would just crash, and they wouldn't take a picture and I would lose those moments.

I was testing this with my son and I missed out a lot of moments with him by simple virtue of the app kept crashing like. Oh, my goodness, what is going on- and it happened to me again the next day after a first restart and I, had to use the camera and a camera cut. The camera have just crashed, which leads me to con number two, the camera itself. Look. We know the cameras are less than subpar on a budget device, but I thought that Blackberry just like really just slaps on cameras on here and just say, you know what at least I have cameras, and we're going to call it telephoto lenses because, as dual cameras set up in the back and like, are you for real? It's like okay, you got dual cams.

That doesn't mean it is anything special and the fact that BlackBerry's website blackberry mobile come website says take stunning selfies with the front facing camera with I'm. Sorry with those washed out photos, I, don't know what they're talking about that's just terrible marketing and honestly someone should call them up for false advertising, because that is not the case. Number three to display. I think this also applies to the BlackBerry key to proper, but this play supposed to be the same. It's a 1080p display on this 4.5 inch. There's nothing special to write home about some have said it's dimmer than the key one, and for those that use the key one wouldn't know that the screen on that one was already pretty dim.

My grabs have been more with the actual responsiveness of the display when you would double tap the screen. It would take about two seconds for the screen to wake up like it's not responding like what well what's. Why is that is the specs I, don't know, but I know I didn't experience that kind of lag on two key one and that's consuming. That thing has a less remnant this one so whatever so, the display is nothing to write home about, and neither is the speaker which is unfortunate because when you blast the speaker yeah it's loud, but it's distorted. So that's as far as it goes and the fact that has two grills down here.

One of them is actually the microphone, the other ones, the speaker they just went for cemetery here instead of you know, actually putting dual speakers here like they did on the blackberry Passport. But whatever that's mister, today, blackberry, ? and key1 same problem like reproof same problem, so yeah, alright I touched on this as a pro, not going to trash it. As a con software support. This thing is promised to get Android Pi when I hear from now two years from now, I don't know because BlackBerry's really, really slow and the mere fact that I can't trust them to push out a software update, puts them on league with Samsung and that's saying something because Samsung's been actually been improving their update cycles and I used to use just HTC's because their update cycles, but, of course, because of their budget cuts in all that the software updates and firmware just took a hit, but with blackberry abandoning basically the CDMA version, the key one for Android Oreo that hurt like you're joking right. So was it 550 bucks, 600 bucks for the CDMA version and no true software support, and these Verizon pushed out a software patch in January, but that that doesn't have any features to it.

Android Oreo, there's an it, is a step-up from android 7, so I do vouch for that. That operators going to be put into the BlackBerry key one. Because they'll just make that battery last even longer, but unfortunately, blackberry is just not supporting that. Just like those poor, CDMA users on Sprint same thing, not getting any updates on that respect, but hey if they do push out an update, because you never know that would be awesome. So those are my five pros and five cons on the blackberry key to LE notice that I didn't mention the price, so the price now is what I'll bring up, because that's either the deal-breaker here it's either.

A positive thing of the thing is actually like $250 less than the key to proper, or it could hurt that you're still paying at least $450 for a device like this, and if you get the red one like this, this is the more premium version. Why? Just because the flashy red color, what makes the red more expensive, it's $500 without any discounts. So it's big $500 for this. That's like one plus territory, look at the one plus six itself. You know if they're still available, but my point that around this side you don't go into buying blackberry for the latest in specs.

By the same time, you don't want to go and splurge on a device that is not going to be supported by the manufacturer. For that long or much longer this that's the unfortunate part. So it really comes down to this I. Don't want blackberry to be synonymous with compromise, because honestly hasn't that been the case for every single BlackBerry device that has been made in the past decade. Compromise here and a compromise there, BlackBerry Playbook yeah great device, acute kernel, but there are no apps for it.

We don't have apps for that, because you know we don't really need it. When you got the browser compromised, BlackBerry 10 devices, all right they came out, they do have the latest in specs. They have the best cameras, they parity subpart cameras, but hey, it was a blackberry knows a whole new thing, but it didn't have apps compromised, blackberry, prayer, hey best of all world. The internals were dated the front camera was crap and the keyboard that slides out was basically really cramped as well, and on top of that, you were paying beyond flagship price for that seven hundred plus dollars for it compromise blackberry, key one compromise key to compromise key to L me more compromises for less money. So I don't want that to be synonymous with blackberry.

But that seems to be the case, but you don't go to buy a blackberry to have the latest and greatest in specs, to which my question to blackberry is why not? Why not put the best on it if you're going to charge that much just go ahead and put the best on that stop making people feel like they have to compromise to get a blackberry? Let them be super proud of carrying a blackberry, not returning to the days of past, where you had to carry a blackberry and an iPhone or an Android to get what you were missing out on the blackberry note that I feel like it's going back to those days, because almost every single reviewer that sung the praises, the blackberry key to would also tell you they were carrying a second device and the only way for me to be able to use this to literally carry the second device and I don't want to do that if I was going to use. Just one sorry, folks, I can't recommend this phone unless you're shopping around that budget, category you're not running the phone as hard as someone like me, this then I mean is then yes, this won't keep up with you or just upgrade to the BlackBerry key to. But the thing is: if you're going to be pushing your device really hard, and you really depend on security like I, do in the put in the business where you deal with so much sensitive information, then sadly, I can't rely on a blackberry to get it done. Only that's why I have to carry a second device and that's the unfortunate part blackberry stopped becoming synonymous with compromised. Hopefully, the BlackBerry key 3 would be the home run that we're all begging for now.

I, don't expect a hardware like this that has so many buttons to be water-resistant but hey if they accomplish that more power to them. Until then, BlackBerry 83, I'm, hoping that thing is a big improvement. So those are my thoughts on the blackberry, k2, LE I'm, looking forward to the next generational device and see if they'll better fit my needs always crossing fingers. Blackberry come on I miss you guys a lot, but you got to keep up with me now. Alright, so I want to just quickly tell you an update as to what's happening now with the channel, because you probably notice the banners have definitely changed and some more changing along the way the links have for sure changed and there'll be links down below for websites that are not yet live, but you're going to want to keep those links because once they go a lot, you're going to want to be in the know.

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