The long-anticipated sequel to last year’s groundbreaking flagship by TCL Corporation, the Blackberry KeyOne has officially been launched at an event in New York yesterday.
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The new high-end flagship is the BlackBerry KEY2 and going by reviews, videos and available images that have been surfacing on the internet, TCL did a decent job on the device and it has been said to be worthy of an upgrade.
Before the official launch happened yesterday, we had to deal with quite a lot of rumours, renders and prototypes, and some specs leak. This only made us (and many BlackBerry fanboys and enthusiasts) only more anticipatory about the official launch of the flagship.
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It is no news that with the BlackBerry KEY2, TCL Corporation hopes to register remarkable sales and, ultimately, success of the device — even more than the BlackBerry KeyOne’s.
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Since we weren’t at the launch event, and we don’t have unit of the device, we were able to obtain some images and videos from AndroidCentral.
See the hands-on experience of the BlackBerry KEY2 in the embedded video below:
Some major improvement of the BlackBerry KEY2 when compared to its predecessor, the KeyOne include a dual camera set-up on the rear, broader and smoother keyboard, a newly introduced Swift Key for shortcut/multitasking improvement, 6GB of RAM, Snapdragon 660 SoC, and Android Oreo v8.1.
Other specifications of the BlackBerry KEY2 include:
- 4.5-inch, 1620×1080 IPS LCD screen (434ppi display density)
- 151.4mm x 71.8mm x 8.5mm body dimension
- 4x Kryo 2.2GHz, 4x Kryo 1.8GHz processor
- Adreno 512 GPU
- 64GB / 128GB storage (expandable up to 2TB via microSD)
- Dual 12MP with dual-tone LED flash, 2x optical zoom, and portrait mode
- 8MP front-facing camera with selfie flash
- 3500 mAh non-removable battery
The KEY2 is only $100 USD costlier than the KeyOne and will go on sale first in Canada where it is expected to sell for $829 Canadian Dollars. In the US, the device will retail for $649 USD. The KEY2 is only available in two colour variants — Black and Silver.
With the above images, specs, and video, what do you think of the BlackBerry KEY2?