Gadgetory

this is the BlackBerry key one it's the first phone in this new era of BlackBerry to come with what people actually expect from the brand a physical keyboard here's how it works the keyboard sits below a 4.5 inch screen with three to two aspect ratio if touch sensitive so you can scroll through web pages and so on without having to touch the screen and just like classic libraries you can customize each key with shortcuts for things like apps and contacts unlike classic libraries however this run's android 7 nougat and is a pretty modern smartphone and all the ways you'd expect it's actually made by TCL a Chinese campaigns as licensing the name from blackberry the build quality is very solid with an aluminium frame and textured back panel and overall the industrial design seems likely to please the kind of professional user the same depth another aspects of the design centered around productivity is that it's easy to use in one hand partly because the screen is narrow partly because you can do a lot with the keyboard itself and the keyboard also makes androids multitasking more practical you could send a text while watching video at the same time for example and you would need to obscure screen with the software keyboard TCL is also targeting professionals with a range of security software and BlackBerry apps like bbm and the BlackBerry hub which condenses a bunch of information from emails calendars and so on into one feed the BlackBerry key one will cost you five hundred and forty nine dollars and it's going on sale sometime in the second quarter of this year is it enough to make blackberry cool again maybe not but it looks like a pretty solid effort and if you can be holding out for a physical keyboard all the way into 2017 that's probably enough to make you happy you