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you clicked on the title and you saw the thumbnail so I'm sure a lot of you users out there are wondering why well it's Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and I'm here to talk to you about my daily driver on the daily I use the BlackBerry key one I'm going to get into my reasoning in a little bit however if you haven't seen Milan's video about the galaxy si and why that phone is his daily driver you should definitely check it out he does a good job of explaining exactly what a daily driver means to him and I agree mostly with those points the only other thing I would add to it is that well this is the phone that I would actually pay for if I was just a general consumer and not a reviewer now a lot of you out there swear by the galaxy Si and the fact that a lot of you even have one is actually part of my first reason exclusivity a BlackBerry brand was really easy to find back in the day you had people using bold and curves and everyone was exchanging bbm pins but back then much of what blackberry was doing actually permeates into today's version of Android you have end-to-end encryption from device all the way to the BB servers and you also have bbm send receipts on top of other great messaging features now BlackBerry is a friendly brand it's not one that you find too often and you might actually go up to someone and ask them why is that a Blackberry when they're using it and that's actually part of the fun we always talk about Android being a place where you can personalize and customize the operating system in order to make it more individualistic well I think actually using the BlackBerry key one is kind of a sign of who I really am and it's another level of individualism and part of the reason why the phone is even head-turning is because of the design a lot of flagship devices these days go for the glass and metal designs but since blackberry is a fringe product like I mentioned before they could experiment a little bit more with what their main phones look like I love what TCL and Blackberry have done in making the industrious and business-oriented key1 design no other device in the mainstream smartphone game quite looks like this and it manages to be pretty sturdy too I dropped this key one a couple of times in Taipei and aside from a few scuffs the phone is working beautifully but of course what the design comes the main part of the phone the physical keyboard and one of the main facets of having that keyboard is extra input now if you know me from the Android authority podcast and also even previous videos I love the physical keyboard and I also love when there are extra inputs on phones the reason why is because it provides a different experience than the full touchscreen even just one more button can make all the difference on a phone but you get more than 26 in the BlackBerry key one and that leads to more than 52 different shortcuts and I actually rarely use the app drawer or even my doctor's to get to my most used applications I have see for calendar K for Google keep Y for YouTube long press Y for Yelp long press F for facebook Messenger I for Instagram the list goes on now even though the screen is a little bit smaller the fact that you're doing a lot of the work on the keyboard itself means that you have the entire 4.5 inch screen to look at all the content you want and that includes scrolling up and down because you can use the keyboard as a swipeable trackpad it allows you to go through a number of places like Instagram and not have to worry about accidentally liking any photos Edgar our fellow Andrew authority brother and also a blackberry fan made the point that typing with real keys isn't about typing really fast it's about typing with confidence because you have to physically type the right letters for the most part your overall typing accuracy actually goes up and even though this might be a little bit heavy I actually think that there's a benefit to typing out the words that end up appearing on the screen there are some studies out there that say that writing in a notebook can be more beneficial than just typing it onto a laptop and I think that the key one keyboard is kind of a happy medium I'm actually thinking about the letters I'm typing and thus the notes the journals the tasks the calendar events that I create tend to be a little bit better and remembered in my mind and it's not like you have to sacrifice that much speed in order to type what you want to type swiping to the left deletes whole words so that that level of speed is provided on a physical keyboard I know this all sounds a little bit unbelievable to you guys but honestly the BlackBerry quinoa is everything that I need in my smartphone device now it's not going to have the Snapdragon 835 and yes I can feel the difference with the Snapdragon 625 but for most applications I don't really need to have the highest and specifications there are some times when the phone might get bogged down when I'm watching youtube videos or playing some games but for the most part my main reason why I love this phone is because of the level of productivity I've been using the BlackBerry as a way to get better at calendaring jotting notes responding to emails and just generally getting things done audio in the form of music and podcast is a big yet secondary need that this phone still fulfils without many problems and watching YouTube or TV hasn't been a problem despite the smaller screen even then I don't do it so often unless I have no other way of watching and the same thing goes for the camera the camera on the blackberry q10 and it does a pretty good job I know that I have said in the past that the LG G 6 would be my smartphone shooter of choice but as a vlogger type and as someone that actually really enjoys photography I tend to have a compact camera on me at all times anyway so I usually have those bases covered it's all about honing in to exactly what kind of user you are and I think I've done a good job of figuring out what it is I really need and the blackberry King ones to provide all of that specialization is simply underrated these days in the tech world and for the BlackBerry p1 knowing exactly what it is meant for means that the design the keyboard and the overall experience are honed in and if you know me as a reviewer by now you know that I love it when a piece of tech does just that and that is why the BlackBerry key one is my daily as always thank you guys very much for watching and hope you enjoyed this video of me just kind of recounting why the BlackBerry key one is my daily driver don't forget to check out our other videos including the full review of the BlackBerry key one and you can also see all of our other coverage here at Android authority don't forget to follow us on social media as well and to subscribe to this channel if you haven't already because we are your source for all things Android