Black. Berry KEYone review: Coming home. Come for the keyboard, stay for the battery life. You probably already know if this is your next phone. There's nothing like coming home. Even after months — years — the sounds, the smells, the feelings, are unavoidable. The Black. Berry KEYone is home. Even more so than the Priv, which was released 1. KEYone is Black. Berry's attempt to appeal to its core audience, as small as it may be, with the best hardware keyboard on the market. Cette section répond à des questions relatives à des problèmes de connexion Internet : lenteur, non fonctionnement. BlackBerry Curve 8520: Características y especificaciones. El BlackBerry Curve 8520 se encuentra entre el Curve 8300 y el Curve 8900 en la línea de BlackBerry. Privacy Policy. All rights reserved. With that it succeeds, but falls down in a couple notable areas along the way. The quick take. The KEYone is the best phone for those upgrading from Black. Berry 1. 0, or are holding onto a Priv. How To Unlock Blackberry: WARNING: If after you enter "meood" or "mepd" from the unlock instructions below and your "Enter Network MEP" box show less than 4 try left. For everyone else, it's probably not going to move the needle. The good. Great build quality. Android 7. 1. 1 on board at launch. Excellent security features. Best hardware keyboard on the market. T-Mobile has been fairly quiet about the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier ever since the device was announced at the end of August, but today T-Mo broke that silence by. List of all the latest and new Samsung mobile phones under Rs. 10000 available. Looking for Samsung phones under 5000, find the model best suited for you from this. Great battery life. Best security update pedigree outside of Google. The bad. Software is buggy. Performance is inconsistent (likely from buggy software)Camera has potential but suffers in low light. To have and to hold. Black. Berry KEYone Full review. Black. Berry Mobile, which is actually TCL Communications, which makes Alcatel phones, has done an admirable job furthering the legacy of Black. Berry's transition from BB1. Android. Not only does the KEYone sport the same security enhancements, including Hardware Root of Trust and Verified Boot as all Black. Berry phones released in the past couple of years, but it runs Android 7. To say that the KEYone is one of the most secure phones on the market right now would probably not be an overstatement. But the KEYone is also inherently divisive, willfully limiting its potential customer base with a hardware keyboard that harkens back to a time, between six and 1. Black. Berrys essential tools for millions of people, but few could envision typing on anything but that miniaturized version of the desktop keyboard. Times have changed, and people have adjusted. Well, most people. This phone is for the others, and for them it's almost perfect. See at Amazon. See at Best Buy. See at Black. Berry Mobile. Those pesky numbers. First, the specs. Category. KEYone. Operating System. Android 7. 1. 1 Nougat. Display. 4. 5- inch, 1. IPS LCD4. 34ppi. Processor. Qualcomm Snapdragon 6. Octa- core 2. 0. GHz. Adreno 5. 06 GPURAM3. GBStorage. 32. GBExpandablemicro. SD up to 2. TBRear Camera. MP (1. 5. 5 micron) f/2. PDAFdual- tone LED flash. HDR, 4. K, 3. 0fps. Front Camera. 8MP f/2. Selfie flash. 10. Battery. 35. 05 m. Ah non- removable. Charging. Quick Charge 3. USB- CWater resistance. No. Security. DTEK security suite. FIPS 1. 40- 2 Full Disk Encryption. Android For Work, Google Play for Work. Connectivity. Wi- Fi 8. GHz, Bluetooth 4. LE, NFCGPS, GLONASSNetwork (NA GSM)LTE Band 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/1. TD- LTE Band 3. 8/3. Network (NA CDMA)LTE Band 1/2/3/4/5/7/1. TD- LTE Band 4. 1 CDMA BC 0/1/1. Network (EMEA)LTE Band 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/1. TD- LTE Band 3. 8,4. Dimensions. 14. 9. Weight. 18. 0 grams. I tap, therefore I am. About this review. I (Daniel Bader) am writing this review after spending 1. Black. Berry KEYone. BB Mobile says that the hardware is near- final but the software is not, meaning that some of the software issues could be fixed in an update. If so, we'll update this review. The phone was running Android 7. Nougat on Build AAK8. April 5, 2. 01. 7 security patch. It received an update to Build AAL0. May 3, just a few hours before publishing this review. The phone stayed on the Bell network in Canada throughout its testing. Solid, like the Canadian Shield. Black. Berry KEYone Hardware. Let's start with the hardware. This is a solid device, as all high- end Black. Berry devices have been over the past few years. Most notably, the aluminum frame joins with the metal frets of the keyboard seamlessly, and while I'm not an enormous fan of the flat top with rounded corners, the phone certainly paints a unique picture. That fingerprint sensor in the space bar: my goodness, is it awesome. Indeed, the matte silver finish of the frame honors early Black. Berry models without going too retro, though the black- and- silver color palette definitely gives me the feels. There are modern touches here, though: the symmetrical speaker and microphone grills on the bottom are flanked by a USB- C port, while the sizeable (and distracting, to be honest) front- facing camera sits next to etched holes and a duo of sensors brace against a large 4. LCD screen. Back in 2. Passport was released, I remember wondering how Black. Berry would eventually release an Android phone given that its keyboard takes up so much vertical space. Well, here you go. The screen is really good — surprisingly good — though not quite as bright as I'd like (though, really, coming from a Galaxy S8, it's not really a fair comparison). More importantly, though, its 3: 2 aspect ratio makes sense: most Android apps can adapt to the reduced vertical real estate, just as they can for the taller counterparts on the Galaxy S8 and LG G6. What's irritating, and something I don't quite understand, is Black. Berry Mobile's use of capacitive navigation buttons below the screen; for a phone that insists its keyboard is smart, and encourages swiping vertically to scroll through web pages and feeds, it's far too easy to accidentally hit one of the three buttons. My only other hardware gripe is the placement of the power button, which mirrors BB Mobile's Alcatel counterparts by placing it on the left side of the phone. I'm all for catering to lefties, but I don't think this is the solution. The right side houses a volume rocker and, below it, a programmable convenience key that can be assigned to anything except turning on and off the phone. I think the convenience key is a great idea, but justifying the power button's placement by saying that people will use the fingerprint sensor to turn on the phone and double- tap the display to turn it off again goes against the years of muscle memory most smartphone users have built up. Speaking of that fingerprint sensor, it's seamlessly integrated into the keyboard's space bar, and my goodness is it awesome. The DTEK6. 0, a repackaged TCL 9. The keyboard. Let's talk about the keyboard, because in all likelihood it's a big reason you're considering the phone at all. It's good, probably 9. Black. Berry Classic, and certainly the best on any modern phone. The keys are wide and responsive, with excellent travel that return to position instantly. If you're a current Black. Berry user, you're quickly going to feel at ease here, and if you're a lapsed Crack. Berry addict, the adjustment period will likely be brief. While the familiar Black. Berry frets are here, the keys are not quite as contoured and angled as they used to be, which Black. Berry Mobile says comes from a need to optimize for the gestures that were popularized by the Passport and, later, the Priv. It's a fine compromise, and not one I mind, but it doesn't do anything to assuage the cognitive dissonance I feel returning to typing on a physical keyboard. You won't convince me that physical keys are the future, but this one is damn good. Yes, like I mentioned before, typing on the KEYone is like coming home. But the home feels smaller, more cramped, and rife with compromise. I'll try my best not to brutalize the metaphor too much, but even after using the KEYone all day, every day, for nearly two weeks, I haven't fallen back in love with the process. Typing on this phone is a chore. It's the reason I kept the slider closed on the Priv for much of its life. I strongly believe that virtual keyboards in their current form provide a superior and more accurate typing experience than a physical one — but that's just me. Google Keyboard; Swift. Key; even Black. Berry's own superb virtual keyboard: they're all very good at figuring out what you're trying to say, and correcting your mistakes as you type. And while Black. Berry's keyboard does that, too, the satisfying feedback of physical keys doesn't always lead to a better experience.(Those dismissing my pedigree right now should take into account my history with Black. Berrys. My first smartphone was a Black. Berry Pearl 8. 10. Bold 9. 00. 0. I used that 9. Bold 9. 70. 0 and Bold 9. In between, I held onto almost every Black. Berry imaginable, from the chiclet keys of the Curve 8. Tour 9. 63. 0 and Torch 9. I loved those phones. When Black. Berry 1. I upgraded not to the Z1. Q1. 0. I used the Passport; I gave the Classic a try. The keyboard, uniformly backlit, is excellent. Once you get the hang of it, the combination of touch typing and on- screen autocorrect works well. There are also a number of gestures that can be utilized to improve the typing experience, though I found myself more concerned with finishing a word than stopping to swipe up in one of three quadrants to extract an autocorrect suggestion. As on the Priv, swiping to the left over the keys deletes the last word, while double- tapping on it introduces a cursor that can be used to quickly navigate through and edit text. I really like these gestures, and found myself not just using but relying on them as I spent more time with the KEYone. When you're on the home screen, those keys double as shortcuts to basically anything, too: you can hold down the 'C' button to quickly launch the camera, or short- press the 'M' key to instantly call Mom (hey, it's Mother's Day soon — don't forget!). And when you're typing away, the physical Shift and Alt buttons mean you can quickly cut, copy and paste without digging around for that on- screen cursor. These are all great features, and add tremendous value to the hardware keyboard, especially once you grow used to the keys' nuances. Typing on the KEYone takes some getting used to, even compared to older Black. Berry keyboards, and that's because Black. Berry Mobile decided to go glossy instead of matte on the buttons themselves. You'll want to make sure there's no oil or sweat on your fingertips, too, because once gunked the keys have a tendency to lose friction, and accuracy, in a hurry.
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