BlackBerry Ketone Android QWERTY Launged in india
BlackBerry KEYone has been launched in India as an
Amazon-exclusive handset, in partnership with manufacturing and distribution
partner Optiemus Infracom. The BlackBerry KEYone price in India has been set as
Rs. 39,990, and the handset is the last smartphone designed in-house by the
company. Its biggest highlight is its hardware QWERTY keyboard, and the phone
runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system with BlackBerry's own security and
productivity software onboard. Another unique feature is the hardware
Convenience Key that can be customised for various shortcuts. To recall, the
smartphone was first launched at MWC 2017.
BlackBerry KEYone specifications
The BlackBerry KEYone specifications are mediocre, however,
the innards are not the smartphone's highlights. Instead, its keyboard and
software features are its main USPs. The dual-SIM BlackBerry KEYone runs
Android 7.1.1 Nougat, and sports a 4.5-inch IPS LCD display with a 3:2 aspect
ratio (1080x1620 pixels) and a pixel density of 433ppi. It is powered by an
octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoC clocked at up to 2GHz, coupled with 4GB
of RAM.
The KEYone camera setup bears a 12-megapixel rear camera
with an f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, EIS, and dual-tone LED flash, apart from the
8-megapixel front camera that sports an f/2.2 aperture and an 84-degree
wide-angle lens. As for storage, the BlackBerry KEYone comes with 64GB of
inbuilt storage that is expandable via microSD card (up to 2TB) in a hybrid
dual-SIM configuration.
In terms of connectivity, the BlackBerry KEYone supports 4G
VoLTE, dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wi-Fi 802.11ac, NFC, GPS/ A-GPS, Bluetooth
v4.2, FM radio, USB Type-C (3.1), and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Sensors on board
the smartphone include accelerometer, ambient light sensor, digital compass,
gyroscope, and a proximity sensor. It is powered by a 3505mAh non-removable
battery that supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0, said to charge the smartphone
from zero to 50 percent in just 30 minutes. It measures 149.3x72.5x9.4mm, and
weighs 180 grams.
BlackBerry KEYone features
Getting back to the software aspect of the smartphone, the
security apps such as DTEK by BlackBerry and BlackBerry Password Keeper have
been preloaded, while productivity apps such as BlackBerry Hub, BlackBerry
Calendar, BlackBerry Productivity Edge, and BlackBerry Workspaces are also
onboard. The company is of course touting the Smart Keyboard functionality,
which offers contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction, and 'flick
typing' that adapts to the user's language style.
Source:gadgets.ndtv
Source:gadgets.ndtv
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