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MWC 2017: BlackBerry KeyOne - a smartphone that shakes tricks up its sleeve, oops, keyboard

BlackBerry KeyOne

We've buried the BlackBerry as many times as there were before the actual death of Fidel Castro. But BlackBerry does not give up, it continues to look for its place under the sun (now the Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL is trying its luck with it). His latest attempt is the BlackBerry KeyOne smartphone, which stands out from the competition with a physical keyboard. The aluminum phone is designed to be operated with one hand, because BlackBerry's philosophy is that if you have to put down a cup of coffee to use your phone, there's something wrong with it.

Attractive smartphone BlackBerry KeyOne, which the company TCL brought to Barcelona's MWC 2017 fun mobile technology fair, it has the perfect dimensions for one-handed operation. Besides 4.5 inch screen with a resolution of 1620 x 1080 pixels (433 PPI) also has physical  qwerty keyboard with many additional features. Located on the space bar is extremely responsive fingerprint reader, swiping on the keys allows you to move between menus, and also offers via 50 shortcuts.

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It is powered by efficient and at the same time economical Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 octa-core processor, which is "gentle" to the battery s 3505 mAh, which provides enough energy for the whole day, even if you still use the phone a lot. It boasts of 3 GB of system memory and 32 GB data storage space, which can be expanded with a microSD memory card 2 TB. The operating system runs on it Android 7.1. On the back, a camera with a resolution was built into it 12 million pixels with a Sony sensor IMX 378 (the same is used by Google Pixel), and the resolution camera in front 8MP and flash. The BlackBerry KeyOne is definitely not for everyone, but it is for all those who want to have a phone that is not the same as others.

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