The Phones Show 352 (Blackberry KEY2 LE) By Steve Litchfield

Now one of the unique selling points of the phone show over the last decade has been that I've been shooting on phone cameras and show how good phone imaging can be from the Nokia n9 t3 transformer to the Nokia n8 e six and eight NOC 800 spot a pattern here, but recently on devices like the Samsung Galaxy s, 9 plus and Huawei Mate, 20 Pro. This show is being shot for the very first time ever on an iPhone. This is the iPhone SE. I chose it because its audio is particularly good. It's mono, which is not ideal for family and event shots, but for this phone show it should be pretty good, so comments welcome I'll, keep mixing it up. Let me know what you think of the iPhone.

Se short video in this phone show now look this the BlackBerry key to LE, isn't for you. The very fact that you're watching this video means that you're something of a phone geek- and this is almost the antithesis of an 18 by 9, screened, powerhouse flagship. Yes, I've- come to rather liked it and recommend it and here's. Why now I've got a friend? Let's call him Bryan, okay! Well, in fact his name is Bryan, but that's beside the point Bryan is about.17 has been using a Nokia IOM to remember this for the last eight years he has since 2010. This is from the era when Symbian a s60 rolled the smartphone world, when I boarded phones were commonplace made by Nokia or Blackberry, typically and in fairness.

I can see why take away the modern media centric uses for a smartphone, so YouTube Netflix, Snapchat Instagram imaging in general. What you have left a QWERTY equipped phone fits the bill rather well, so texting, emailing, basic social media contacts and calendar plus the ubiquitous phone calls for these uses. The e 72 runs for three days on a charge as a replaceable battery is really solidly built and basically never goes wrong. But of course, Jessica doesn't really sink to anything these days. So Brian has to back up every week to make sure he doesn't lose any changes, usually to contacts or handy safe Plus.

None of his data is available on any other computing device and I, don't think. Brian is unique. There must be plenty of over 40 non geeks out there who are hanging onto their old Nokia's and BlackBerry's, because they can't see themselves using an iPhone or Android device. I tried, helping Brian get all of his stuff onto an iPhone SE, which I thought would be a good match. We had to jump through hoops, but eventually migrated his contacts and notes.

Yet two weeks later, he called me up to switch him back. He just couldn't get on with the all touch interface. Partly this was familiarity with s60 and the Nokia also partly was because he wanted a real keyboard when he wanted to type he wanted to type on real keys, and he's exactly the target market. For this the key to early. Of course, there were the key word and key to, but they stashed at night on 600 pounds in the UK, and although they can probably afford it, pensioners often seem to have the most disposable income these days.

In my experience their own Ellis, they bulk at this sort of price. For a quote phone, the key to LE heat comes in it's 350 pounds, which is still too much. It should be safer than 300, ideally 249, but hey. What do I know blackberry, but it's a good start and brings the thumb keyboard into the current smartphone age without breaking the bank too much and/or 8.14 gig of ram is Snapdragon 636, with 64 gigabytes of storage, plus micro SD, or used jewel Sims III thousand million for battery with quick charge? 3 point naught and type C down the bottom upgrade from an old rock here or blackberry from half a decade ago, and you're in a vastly better world in terms of backup and security, and you've still got the reassurance of a rather excellent little thumb keyboard. The keys aren't sculpted as much as an older BlackBerry's, not as domed as those on the old Nokia's, but you still hit 40 words per minute.

If you're comfortable with your grip and coordination, the obvious question is: what did blackberry leave out from the key to reviewed and phone shows three for one in order to almost half the price, not as much as you think. The Ellie is polycarbonate rather than aluminum. That's been styled as a faux metal here in gorgeous champagne and dark blue plus. The LE is a full 13 gram lighter around 8%, which is significant in the hand for a noir mob. The chip sets a bit slower, there's 2gig less room at 4 gigabytes.

Here the battery is a bit smaller and the cameras are less impressive. Here are a few sample shots plus the capacitive key tops have been removed, which, oh, you think is a good show type for the target market. Even though I didn't use these much on the t2 I. Imagine that newcomers, the early, would get a bit confused as their fingers brushed over the keys, and they literally tried to get a grip, but the key pun intended USPS are all here at the keyboard. The speed key for launching favorite applications, the Google Assistant key on the right hand, side.

The BlackBerry software suite, including the hub I, can seem normal needing a geek friend like you or me, to help them set this up, but there should be okay from then on. They can pay for things with NFC plus 3.5 ml headphone, socket up on top sew, and also they can listen to FM radio with their headphones. Acting as an aerial all present and correct. My number one pet peeve with the Quito is the use of capacitive navigation keys, since media and landscape mode was always then compromised, black bars barriers everywhere, but a gain of the Le target market I. Don't that media watching is high on their agenda and having permanent and always obvious controls will work well for them.

So, yes, laying aside the price which effectively includes a 100 pound blackberry accent, which should be a bit lower, this is still a unique and fairly rugged smartphone for non geeks, and it should definitely find its market.

Source : Steve Litchfield