- It's global launch day for the BlackBerry KEYone.
The phone has gone on sale first
at Selfridges in London here in the UK,
and that means it's unboxing time.
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All right, unboxing time for the BlackBerry KEYone.
So, here we have the box itself.
Nice black pre-texture on the side
and the phone itself on the front, some specs on the back.
Network, type of display, CPU, all that good stuff.
Let's take this sleeve off and stick it to one side and
bring out my knife to break the seal on this box.
Open it up.
And there we have the BlackBerry KEYone in all its glory.
Let's lift this thing outta here.
Neat little screen cover here
with the BlackBerry shield logo
and all the details on the back there
on that plastic area covering that.
So, really, actually kind of nice,
sturdy-looking device here,
and we'll take a look at the phone itself
in a little bit more detail later,
but let's just open this up and see what we have underneath.
We're gonna open all your usual documentation in here,
I would guess, SIM tool as well, always important.
Quick start user guide and safety stuff,
all the usual paperwork that you would expect.
Charger
and
earbuds.
Let's take a look at the charger itself.
Taking a look at the side,
it supports a 9-volt quick charging,
which is nice to see.
Other stuff in here,
you have a bunch of replacement rubber things
for these headphones here, and
the all-important USB Type-C cable.
So, stick all that stuff to one side, let's
grab our SIM tool.
So this right here is where you'll stick
your SIM and SD card.
We'll do that later, let's just stick that back in.
Let's peel this protective sheet off the front.
There we have the screen
and around the back this really nice rubber coating.
And actually this has a totally unique feel to it, I think,
it's not quite the soft-touch plastic
that we used to have on a lot of older phones
and it really does sort of merge almost entirely seamlessly
with the metal body of this thing.
So around the back, you got your 12 megapixel camera,
uses the same IMX378
sensor as the Google Pixel,
which is an impressive base to be building on.
Two-tone LED flash.
So a very sturdy-looking device,
solid metal build quality
and, of course, there's the all-important QWERTY keyboard
around there on the front,
with a fingerprint scanner built-in as well.
So just to give you a quick comparison
with a current Android phone,
we've got the Google Pixel XL here,
so 5.5 inch screen versus 4.5 on the KEYone.
Although, just by comparing by the numbers
is a little bit misleading
because you have a different aspect ratio here
because of the keyboard that you have down below.
Let's take a look around the back,
and really the difference
is more in the width of the device,
which is the thing that makes a difference
in terms of ease of use and ease of holding it, really.
And, of course, around the back
you've got glass and metal on the Pixel
and this rubber texture on the KEYone,
which does help with grip a good deal as well.
So let's put our Google account details in
and we'll get going.
Okay, so let's go ahead and add a fingerprint.
Require pattern to start for extra security.
And let's get going.
Sensor, of course, is in the space bar.
So there we go, we can add more fingerprints if we like,
but we're just gonna get ready
and jump into the rest of this phone.
And there we go, we're more or less all set,
aside from some legal stuff.
Let's just click through this.
And we can sign into BlackBerry Insider as well.
And there we go, we're done with setup
and right there into the phone.
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So, there we go, we've got the BlackBerry launcher,
we've got the BlackBerry hub,
and pop-up widgets and all that good stuff.
We're gonna be playing with this phone a lot more
in the weeks ahead so stay tuned,
but for now that is a very, very quick first look
and unboxing of the new BlackBerry KEYone.
So, that is a BlackBerry KEYone successfully unboxed,
check out all our coverage on this phone
on androidcentral.com,
and of course crackberry.com.
Shout-out to CrackBerry Kevin,
who unfortunately couldn't be here.
Check out all of his stuff
on YouTube at youtube.com/crackberry.
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Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.
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