BlackBerry KEYone Black Edition hands-on By PhoneArena
When the BlackBerry key one launched earlier this year. It was easy to dismiss the Android smartphone as a one-trick pony. After all, how many other handsets in this day and age still offer users a physical hardware keyboard, but as we spent more and more time with the key one, we began to appreciate just how special this Hardware is and Beyond a new typing experience. It also offered users touchpad control for the phone screen, a useful, app quick launch button on the phone side and some of the best battery life around, but for all the key one offered. It didn't give users much in the way of variety, with just a single color option and no opportunity to pay a little extra for hardware upgrades. At least that was the case up until a few weeks ago, we learned about a new variant of the key one going up for sale in India now another version that hardware is making its international debut as the key one Black Edition gets ready to go global.
The Black Edition starts with a regular key one and then makes three big changes. The first and most obvious is cosmetic, with nearly all the exposed aluminum on this phone swapping, it's old silvery, look for a new anodized black finish that includes the aluminum frame, the BlackBerry logo, around back the protective camera ring and even the bar separating the rows of the phone's iconic keyboard. It's nearly a complete overhaul and the only silver you're seen now is in the beveled edges of the phone's power volume and convenience keys. Already that's cause for key1 fans to be excited as well. The original coloring did look pretty nice.
The new black version is just 19 kinds of cool and gives the phone a bit of an edgy air, more daring look and that's not nothing for a hand site with a stodgy businessman phone reputation, but those upgrades aren't just external and blackberry is also giving the key one black edition a couple improvements to the phone silicon for one at boosts memory from three gigs to four gigs of RAM. Now bran may not make the most pronounced changes, phone performance, and we've yet to carefully evaluate the differences extra gig makes. But blackberry tells us that there really is a small but noticeable speed improvement depending on usage patterns. Of course, the other circuitry upgrade is a bit easier to appreciate with the company doubling internal storage from the original 32 gigabytes to 64. Micros expansion remains available if you need even more space than that, but the move to 64 gigs means that fewer users will have to bother with expansion in the first place.
The new key one Black Edition is set hit markets in Europe, the Middle East, Canada and Japan. Over the next few weeks, the phone will sell for a slight premium over the silver key one costing 650 euros or 50 more than the old version, and while the US isn't on that list, key1 fans here have their own black option in the form of the new AT&T exclusives space, black version. That phone looks exactly like the Black Edition you see here, but it lacks the internal upgrades sticking with the original three gigs of RAM and 32 gigabytes storage. The new black edition may not convince blackberry skeptics to change their tune, but we're just happy to see a little more variety come to this unique corner of the Android world, thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe, ? phone arena. So you don't miss any of our ongoing A?fe 2017 coverage.
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