Last year wasn't a good year for Blackberry, even though they were able to release such great smartphones like the DTEK60 that is one of the most secured phones in the world and the Priv that brought back the QWERTY slider, both device runs on the Android operating system but still it failed to penetrate and attract their former customers back.
Today, Blackberry under TCL Communication announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain their newest android device, the Blackberry KeyOne or what they called "Mercury" before.
The Blackberry KeyOne marks the return of the onscreen physical qwerty keyboard that was popularized by Blackberry back in their heydays. KeyOne features a 4.5 inches IPS LCD display with corning gorilla glass, the phone measured 149.1 x 72.4 x 9.4 mm (5.87 x 2.85 x 0.37 in) it is the rectangular version of the squared Blackberry Passport.
When it comes to its hardware and software, the KeyOne runs on Android 7.1, and powered by an Octacore Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 clocked at 2Ghz with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of ROM expandable upto 256GB via a memory card slot.
The KeyOne features a 12 megapixel rear camera and an 8 megapixel front facing camera, it also features a fingerprint sensor built into the keyboard space-bar by the way the physical keyboard on the phone doesn't only do the typing job as it is also working as a trackpad for you to navigate the phone without touching the screen too much.
A 3505mAh battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge packs the phone with a USB Type C. The Blackberry Keyone is oriced at $549 or roughly Php 27000, the phone is set to arrive second quarter of 2017.
With the resurrrection of the onscreen physical keyboard resurrect the interest of Blackberry's old patrons?
- 4.5-inch display (1620x1080 resolution) with Corning Gorilla Glass
- 2GHz octacore Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
- 3505mAh battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0
- 8-megapixel front-facing camera with wide-angle lens
- 12-megapixel rear-facing camera
- Fingerprint sensor built into keyboard spacebar
- 32GB of on-board storage
- 3GB of RAM
- USB-C
Mag-post ng isang Komento