BlackBerry KEY 2 Review - Should You Buy A BlackBerry in 2018? By sony365

This is David woman and welcome to be checked today. I've got the BlackBerry key ?, but first I want to say a big thank you to our sponsors. Direct Mobile's without them Tech, wouldn't be possible, and it's also thanks to them that we're able to run our giveaways at the moment we're running a competition to win a galaxy a8. So if you're interested in that click, the description below for more details, but right now on with my key to review, this is the new BlackBerry key ? and I've really been looking forward to getting this phone in studio, not because I'm, a huge blackberry fan, because I'm, not especially I've, no nostalgia for the keyboard, I'm perfectly happy with ? on glass. Now the reason I've been waiting for this phone is that, from a visual point of view, this is by far the most interesting phone we've seen in a long time. The trend in 2018 has seen more and more manufacturers producing smartphones with no bezels and no buttons.

Blackberry, however, be in blackberry, I've, seemingly looked at what everybody else is doing and done the total opposite, which is always a good strategy if you're trying to get noticed. But despite bucking, the trend Blackberry have done a very nice job, design wise the key to has a 4.5-inch LCD screen with a 16 20 by 1080p resolution and a 3 by 2 aspect ratio which does the job just fine, showing fairly good visibility in bright sunshine. The permanently visible Android buttons from the key one now only appear when the phone is in use on the key ?, which adds to the much cleaner. Look that the key to has feels very nice in the hand compared to the key one. The use of aircraft grade aluminum makes it feels so much lighter and nicer to use.

The back is finished with the textured rubber as much gripper than what was on the key one and there's a more durable stainless steel trim around the camera bump. It's a classy improvement over the key one, the fat round its size, a tacky one, have now been replaced with sharp, champers and flat sides. Freeing up space for a larger keyboard, we get 20% larger keys on the key ?, and the glossy finish that annoyed. So many people last time has thankfully gone and has been replaced with a matte finish. The keys are a different shape to the old keys were rounded on top to help.

You fill your way around, while the newer keyboard has flat keys that stay in line with a device's design, language and shampoo on one side, depending on whether that key is on the left side of the keyboard or the right now. I have fairly limited experience with using blackberry, keyboards and, while I do appreciate the larger keys. The bumps on the old keys are like a tactile indicator. Helping you feel where you are. The effect is far less with the flat keys, so I find myself sometimes positioning my finger then having to move it slightly to visually check.

What key imam me now, having said that, I am a blackberry novice, but I am getting quicker. There is a learning curve here. Definitely I found myself feeling fairly comfortable with the keyboard after about a week, but it's well worth taking the time to get used to it, because you will love the extra functionality. A swipe from the right brings up your calendar contacts messages or whatever you like, through customization I, also really like the BlackBerry hub, which groups all of your notifications together into one app. The BlackBerry hub is downloadable to any Android phone, and it's recommended new -.

The key to is the speed key. You can assign any button to a particular app and switch to the app at any time by holding down a special app button and pressing the assign key. The new app button replaces the right-hand shift key from the old q bar and I, find it incredibly useful. For instance, I've got spot fired, assigned to S word assigned to W maps assigned to M, you get the picture, and it all moves pretty quickly to the key. ? is noticeably faster than the key one and pretty much everything.

The fingerprint scanner is quicker. As his navigation, the snapdragon 616 processors, paired with the six gigabytes of RAM, seems to handle the job just fine most of the time, although I have seen it struggle with the camera app on occasion, sometimes taking the quite a while to process images, there's 64, gig or 128 gigabytes of internal storage and micros expansion up to 256 gigabytes, which is decent enough. Considering that this isn't the device to be storing hours of movies and games on the key to has a very respectable 3500 William hour battery that performs well easily lasts in a day most of the time I've been using it, but it did manage to run it flat on one day the day I went out to shoot the samples for this video I was a little surprised, as I didn't have that much on screen time that day, but obviously I was using the camera. A lot I think shooting 4k video seems to hurt the battery quite a lot. The camera itself is pretty good.

We have dual 12 megapixel rear cameras. The wild angle is F 1.8 lens and the telephoto has an F 2.6 length. They both have phase detection autofocus with the wide-angle having dual phase detection: autofocus I'm, getting nice usable results, I'm not blown away, but I'm not too disappointed either. There is some noise to be found in places, and there isn't really that much detail in pictures. They pixelate pretty much as soon as you zoom in here.

It is compared to the 12 megapixel shooter on the HTC u2 r, plus you can get a decent portrait shot from this camera and with a good distance between you and your subject to as detection is okay, but like pretty much all dual lens systems, not infallible. Video wise, the key to can shoot both 720 and 1080 P at 24, 30 and 60 frames per second and 4k at 24 and 30 frames per second, but unfortunately, the enhanced video stabilization that the key to offers only works up to 30 frames per second and not at all. In 4k, video quality is average at best. The 1080p is blotchy, even in good light. The 4k looks much better, but unless you have a tripod handy, it's going to be a shaky mess.

I would have much preferred if they did just concentrate on putting high quality 1080p video in here rather than shaky 4k. The front camera is an 8 megapixel fixed-focus job with 1080p recording at 30 frames per second and results are pretty average. It always seems to get the color balance wrong and generally produces fairly unflattering images, but this phone isn't about photography. It's not trying to compete with a p20 pro, it's about productivity and probably the most important reason to mostly be users security from back in a day, the BlackBerry operating system was known for its high level of security, so when it became an android-powered system, they the built-in security measures making it in the most secure, Android device you can buy during boot. Up this device will test hardware and software for tampering and will fail to boot.

If a problem is detected, it also has blackberry, detect software pre-installed, which monitors apps and the operating system for threats. It works together with blackberry, integrity detection. This can detect changes to the system's hardware and advise on how to deal with it. There's a lot more layered security features here. So if privacy is your main concern when buying your new phone and to be quite honest, I wouldn't blame you.

If it was, then this phone should be top of your shortlist. The bottom line is blackberry. Key 2 is a very sharp and effective tool for business and for anybody really who uses a computer a lot or is concerned about their security. I have enjoyed my time with the q2, despite it not having the best screen or the best camera, it has the best user experience once you learn the keyboard of course, but anyway, that's it from me. Don't forget to enter our competition to win a galaxy a8 leave a like, or a dislike, and I'll see you next time.

Source : sony365