Nokia 3310 and BlackBerry KeyOne: CNET editors react By CNET

So we've bought phones from LG, Huawei and Sony, but also from two unexpected sources. We have we've got blackberry and Nokia two big blasts from the past, coming with their phones. Let's start with the BlackBerry phone, it's called the key one guess what you make of it: it's got a keyboard and a 4.5-inch screen. This is definitely interesting. It's supposed to be best of both worlds, and there are some cool features on it. I found the keyboard to be a little.

Squashed typing was a little difficult, but I'm also so used to using a virtual keyboard. Now that I don't know if this is the phone or if I need to relearn, if I think it's definitely interesting and something that old fans will gravitate towards. But I don't think that this is going to compete with the Samsung and LG super phones that we're going to see, of course, and they are going after the high-end with the key one I think it's about $500, and then we've got Nokia on the other side, with the Nokia 3, 5 and 6, and their Android phones, which are much more the lower end of things, and this is the first time that Nokia has come out with an Android phone yeah. It is and I think that's. It says a lot about what, where they're, aiming their brand right now in the low-end, with these phones they're not doing a and all-singing all-dancing phone, which for me, is a big disappointment.

I wanted to see them relaunch with a big fanfare and this amazing phone, but we've gone for low-end, and I do think it shows, because the designs they're not that exciting they're a little kind of what we've come to see from a lot of the lower end brands from China and just kind of playing metal designs. Perfectly nice, though so, do you think that's enough to really get people behind Nokia again. I don't know, I mean I think that there are a lot of people who always want an inexpensive phone. But the funny thing for me also is that one of those phones isn't even a smartphone yeah, of course, but we've had a relaunch of Nokia 3310. This is a phone that we first saw 17 years ago, and it's back again, but it hasn't really changed all that much physically.

It looks basically the same has got colorful designs, bubbly buttons and and functionally it's not a smartphone. So you don't get WhatsApp Twitter Instagram on there. You've just got things like calendar contacts. There is a camera, but it's very, very basic. So this is not a phone for the smartphone lovers yeah.

This doesn't sound like it's going to replace your phone. It sounds like it would maybe be an addition phone something you could give to your kids or take to a fest of all. But you know, you're going to lose all something like that, but it's going to be very, very affordable, so I think Nokia's going after emerging markets with this, rather than the people who love the smartphone. So I think it'll be interesting to see how that does so. Basically, we've got two different approaches: blackberry on the high end, Nokia on the low end and I think that they're going to meet in the middle eventually we'll have BlackBerry's start to release some cheaper, lower end products, and hopefully we're gonna, see Nokia come out with that phone that you want.

The super high-end device, yeah I think something very exciting to watch.

Source : CNET