- Hey everybody, it's Daniel here with Android Central,
and we are here in beautiful Barcelona, Spain,
showing off the BlackBerry ...
Wait for it ...
KeyOne.
That's right, the BlackBerry Mercury
is officially called the KeyOne,
and we're gonna take a much closer look at it right now.
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So, this is the hardware that we saw back at CES,
but it is a little bit more final,
and it feels a little bit more solid,
so we'll take a look around the device.
We have that 1620 by 1080 4.5-inch screen.
That's 1080 equivalent, BlackBerry Mobile says,
but it's got that interesting three by two aspect ratio.
Of course, that's to accommodate the hardware keyboard,
and we'll take a much closer look at that in a minute,
but we'll go around the device.
On the bottom, the USB type C port
with the single speaker and microphone.
On the right side, we have the volume locker and this
convenience key that we'll also go over in a second,
along with the SIM tray.
On the left side is the power button.
You won't need to use it as much,
because there is that fingerprint sensor
that's gonna allow you to turn on the screen.
On the top is a 3.5mm headphone jack,
which is nice and appreciated, and there's this cool
curved design that comes through the entire body
of the phone, and it makes it a little bit distinctive.
On the back, this really nice rubber finish.
Super BlackBerry.
I mean, this is just classic BlackBerry look.
It's a little bit fingerprint-y, but it's easy to clean,
and you have that 12-megapixel IMX378 sensor.
This is the same sensor inside the Google Pixel,
and even though it's not running the same chip,
you can expect excellent results.
You also have that dual-LED flash.
So I'll go back to the front,
and we'll look at this keyboard.
Now, this keyboard is fantastic.
It's a little bit less shallow.
It's much easier to click than the Priv.
But it's also not as contoured as classic BlackBerry devices
and that's to make it easy to do gestures.
So I can type as I always did.
I can swipe back, and it's really responsive.
And of course with this keyboard, you can also program
buttons to open different apps, so every single button
has a single tap and a long tap.
It definitely feels just as good and clicky as
the BlackBerry keyboards of the past,
and we're, you know, expecting a lot of people
to be very, very happy with this.
You have that symbol key here
that brings up the onscreen buttons,
but if you just wanna type and let it predict, you can.
So I'm just gonna type a bunch of words,
and you can swipe up anywhere on the keyboard.
There are three zones,
and like in previous BlackBerry devices,
you swipe up and the predictive engine will hopefully
choose the right words for you, and it'll learn as you go,
which is really nice.
So, let's talk specs.
Inside, we have a Snapdragon 625.
Now, BlackBerry says that it could have included
a really fast, modern chip like the 821 or even the 835,
but the goal here is not to sell this device to enthusiasts
looking for the latest and greatest specs.
They're looking for people
who want this phone to last a long time.
One to two days of battery, and that's why they chose this
very efficient Snapdragon 625 chip
built on a 14-nanometer process.
It's an OptiCore chip.
It's used in lots of other devices, like the Moto Z Play,
and it performs really well.
I have no problem with it in here.
There's also three gigs of RAM in here
and 32 gigs of internal storage.
Inside, though, we have a 3500 milliamp-power battery.
It's actually 3505, but let's just round down for a moment.
This is gonna last you a long time,
probably more than any BlackBerry device to date,
and that's exactly what the company is going for,
because they want this to be sold to government agencies ...
To hospitals, and that's why
they also have this great camera.
You can see in the viewfinder here,
BlackBerry's made some changes to the camera UI.
It takes photos really, really fast,
and it does a bunch of cool things.
It has filters, obviously, it has slow-mo,
there's even a pro mode if you wanna go to that level,
and you can change things like your shutter speed,
your ISO, your white balance, your exposure ...
So that's the specs, but we also have BlackBerry software.
This is, as I said, it's running Android 7.1.1,
and BlackBerry Mobile is working with BlackBerry
back in Canada to sign all of this software.
So we have the security
that you expect from a BlackBerry device.
You have the performance, and you also have the apps,
like Hub, that people have come to know and quite enjoy
in addition to the BlackBerry Launcher
and things like DTEK, which makes sure
that you are secured, and it's going to be receiving
monthly software updates,
so that's one of the major advantages of running
an Android phone on a BlackBerry device like this.
So, we can tell you this.
It's gonna cost about $550 when it's unveiled in Q2.
In the US, it's gonna be sold unlocked.
It'll also be available on carriers in Canada
I think, you know, around late March, early April,
and this is gonna be a phone that a lot of people
are very, very interested in.
Whether it sells well, whether it sells
to the mainstream, the people who loved
BlackBerry hardware keyboards, we'll see.
But I'm pretty excited about it,
and I know we all are here at Android Central.
That's it for this quick look at the BlackBerry KeyOne.
Stay tuned for lots more at Mobile World Congress 2017.
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Thanks for watching.
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