Few things about BlackBerry Keyone

Keyone was announced by BlackBerry in 2017

Connectivity

This model has networks EDGE, GPRS, 2G, 3G and LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 13(700), 17(700), 20(800), 28(700), 38(2600), 40(2300). Performance is HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A Cat9 450/50 Mbps, GSM / HSPA / LTE.

Communication types on Keyone are GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS2, USB 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot, Radio FM radio, Bluetooth 4.2, A2DP, LE, EDR, NFC.

Physical

BlackBerry Keyone has 72.4mm width, 149.1mm height and 9.4mm thick.

BlackBerry Keyone is available in 1 colors, which are black/silver finally black.

Screen on BlackBerry Keyone is built using tehnology IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, at a moment Keyone had screen larger size than only 14% of devices in mobile market, by it's 4.5 inches, 60.3 cm2 (~55.9% screen-to-body ratio) screen with resolution 1080 x 1620 pixels h/w is 3:2 and with density 433 ppi with multitouch support, about display protection I can highlight that it's corning Gorilla Glass 4.

Additional

Additional features on this device are - Fast battery charging: 50% in 36 min (Quick Charge 3.0) - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player - DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.265 player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer.

Let's talk a bit about battery , it is most important thing on device at the moment Non-removable Li-Ion 3505 mAh battery.

Another important features on phone are sensors, this model got Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass.

Is this something new?

The version is powered core Octa-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53, based on chipset Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625, Considering BlackBerry Keyone rank video card on this device is Adreno 506.

Storage on this model is 64 GB, 4 GB RAM or 32 GB, 3 GB RAM, external card slot is supported microSD, up to 256 GB, ant this is running Android 7.1 (Nougat).

About BlackBerry Keyone camera

In Keyone case BlackBerry engineers decided to install 12 million pixels sensor and it has f/2.0 aperture. Some another additional info are phase detection autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash. Video recording on main camera of BlackBerry Keyone is supported with 2160p@30fps options. This is not bad for example one of available devices at the moment, Nokia 3, 12 MP camera is installed in Keyone by BlackBerry and camera has f/2.0 opening. Some another extra traits are autofocus, LED flash. Video on main camera of BlackBerry Keyone is available with 720p@0fps choices

This devide got 12 megapixels front facing lens with perforation of lens f/2.2. And another extra charateristics are 1.12 µm pixel size, 1080p.