The physical QWERTY keyboard on smartphones is a rare feature these days. Still, there are a few who wish to have the latest and good looking QWERTY monoblock keyboard. For those, BlackBerry has brought its BlackBerry KEYone Limited Edition Black smartphone in India which has physical QWERTY keyboard alongside the added layer of security and software convenience. The phone will be made available exclusively on Amazon India from August 8 at a price tag of Rs 39,990.
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Highlights
- BlackBerry KEYone features 4.5-inch Display and QWERTY keypad
- Has 12MP Rear and 8MP Front camera
- The handset is Made in India by Optiemus
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The new BlackBerry mobiles in India are marketed and manufactured by Optiemus Infracom Limited. Citing the sources, IndianExpress has recently published a report which suggests that the BlackBerry KEYone smartphone is a Made in India product.
The report quoted Hardip Singh who is the Director at Optiemus. It’s worth mentioning that BlackBerry has three partners to manufacture and distribute its products globally; Optiemus is one of them.
“That is what lets us bring the phone here at global prices, which has never happened before,” Hardip Singh said.
Singh further said that BlackBerry still has a strong brand value in India. There are still more than a million active users of BlackBerry mobiles in India which are significant, he added. The KEYone will come with easy EMI plans which will help everyone to afford the new phone.
On the software front, the BlackBerry KEYone offer the security apps like DTEK and BlackBerry Password Keeper preloaded on it. Also, it has BlackBerry Hub, BlackBerry Workspaces, BlackBerry Calendar, and BlackBerry Productivity Edge.
BlackBerry KEYone: Specifications
- Features a 4.5-inch display with 1080×1620 pixels resolution
- Display has 3:2 aspect ratio and 433ppi pixel density
- Runs on Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS out-of-the-box
- Boasts a 2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 octa-core SoC with 4GB of RAM
- It is a dual-SIM mobile
- As mentioned before, it has a physical QWERTY keyboard
- A 12MP primary rear camera alongside an 8MP selfie snapper
- Rear camera features PDAF, dual-tone LED flash, EIS, and f/2.0 aperture
- Front camera has 84-degree wide-angle lens with f/2.2 aperture
- It has 64GB of internal storage
- Up to 2TB of external storage using microSD card via hybrid SIM card slot
- Supports 4G VoLTE, NFC, FM Radio, dual-band Wi-Fi, USB Type-C, GPS/A-GPS, and a 3.5mm headphone jack
- Accelerometer, proximity sensor, gyroscope, ambient light sensor, and digital compass
- A 3505mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0
