BlackBerry introduced its next Android smartphone known as BlackBerry KeyOne in a unique pre-MWC launch occasion in Barcelona. The smartphone, which was earlier dubbed as BlackBerry Mercury, was leaked hours earlier than its launch, revealing the specs along with the confirmed identify KeyOne.
The BlackBerry KeyOne comes with sensible QWERTY keypad with a lot of goodies by the corporate on the software program and safety points. Nevertheless, the system is made by TCL.
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BlackBerry KEYone specs
The BlackBerry KEYone has a 4.5-inch 1620 x 1080 IPS LCD show with the side ratio of three:2 and pixel density 433ppi. The smartphone runs Android 7.1 and is powered by Qualcomm’s 2.5GHz Snapdragon 625 octa-core processor with Adreno 560 and 650MHz GPU together with 3GB of RAM.
The choice of Snapdragon 625 processor is actually not top-end contemplating the smartphone has debuted at a time when a lot of new Android smartphones operating Qualcomm’s top-end 835 processor can be introduced. Furthermore, there’s already a lot of Android smartphones operating 820 and 821 SoCs. That mentioned, Snapdragon 625 is probably not the flagship stage chipset, however, isn’t a slouch both. The chipset is thought for its energy, efficiency, and battery life, one thing that we’ve got already seen in Moto Z Play, Xiaomi Redmi Be aware four and Lenovo P2. However how does it work on the KEYone, we are going to quickly discover out.
The smartphone comes with 32GB built-in storage and helps as much as 2TB storage by way of MicroSD. For pictures fanatics, the smartphone has 12-megapixel rear digicam with autofocus, PDAF, f/2.zero, EIS, 4K video recording at 30 fps and twin tone LED flash. It’s the similar Sony IMX378 sensor that Google has used on Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones. It sports activities an Eight-megapixel entrance dealing with the camera that includes f2.2, 1.125um pixel measurement and 84-degree huge angle/subject of view lens.