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- remember that new BlackBerry that we couldn't really tell you much about at CES well we just spent some quality time with it at MWC and now we've gotten more than just the name I'm everywhere I will target now and meet the BlackBerry t1 best way to describe the new BlackBerry key1 starts with its purpose at a time when most devices are becoming gigantic for the sake of content consumption the BlackBerry ki1 is a different breed blackberry became famous two years ago for making really secure and reliable communicators and the key one is mainly focused on serving this market as such we have a phone designed around that mentality the textured coating at the back and a curved metallic trim that makes it feel premium in the hand I mean from simply holding it for the first time you get the impression that this phone can really take a beating match this with a body that's narrower than your standard smartphone and it's almost unintentional that one and I drifted to using this phone in one hand just naturally below it there's the legacy blackberry curity keyboard with 35 keys that support capacitive touch in addition to fingerprint scanner on the space bar and since the primary focus of a communicator is to help you remain communicated all day PCL and BlackBerry decided to go for a more power-efficient Snapdragon 65 processor three gigs of ram and 32 gigs of expandable storage in addition to a whopping 3505 battery that supports quick charge 3.0 now the area where blackberry continues to differentiate is in its software experience surely we received the full briefing on how this phone is secured at a chip and femoral level but what's most important for communication is really the simplicity of its user interface as such this device is running on the latest version of Android 7.1 one unit under a - skin that's unique to blackberry and let's focus on helping you access information faster apps like the BlackBerry hub are here for all messaging in one place and the VTech application makes a return to give you granular control over what applications can access on your phone now as much as many could care less about the hardware keyboards there is a lot of common sense here BlackBerry has designed the crazy 52 shortcuts that you can program with it meaning that if you want to navigate home with Google Maps you can simply program a key like the letter H for example or calling someone specifically by pressing and holding another key or again simply start typing on the keyboard to start a search swiping up on the keyboard is still here and you can select the text being predicted by swiping on either of three areas depending on where it's being suggested and to make matters better predictions are multilingual so even that saves you the need to fumble around language searching so the lights and more we've got a 12 megapixel I am next please 7/8 camera sensor with f/2 aperture at one point five five microns and for those of you doing the math because it's actually the same sensor that we have on the Google pixel and in addition to that we also have an 8 megapixel wide-angle selfie shooter to complement that now whether all this combo with features reaches that level of the like that diehard blackberry fans really loved about the company years ago really depends on implementation and our experience with devices like the privilege and really the case even though the BlackBerry D Tech lineup is a different story pricing is said to be aggressive at $449 or somewhere around there and we saw a very snappy performer over pre-production software which is a really good thing so we will have to wait for a final review over the next few weeks as we hear that launch times are happening early in q2 2017 while that happens make sure you follow us on social media and hit that subscribe button down below for more videos like this one you can also follow me on twitter hyn underscore Evette on into the gravid hi many better please give this video a thumbs up if you like what you saw I am hanging that event up thank you very much for watching we'll see you on the next one