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This is the Blackberry KEY2.
I've put my SIM card in.
I've been using it as my primary phone for a couple of weeks.
And I've got a lot to say about it., so fire away.
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My favorite thing by far would be the shortcuts from the keyboard.
You can short press or long press any key to give you up to 52 shortcuts.
So, I just press N and my notes pops up or I just press C and Chrome pops up.
It's really convenient.
I think it's actually more convenient than shortcuts on pretty much any other phone.
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Pretty much everything else, just kidding.
There are some kinks that the company has to work out, because there are some apps that still call it the virtual keyboard, even though you have the physical keyboard right below.
So it shrinks the size of your app and what you can see on the screen to the top quarter or top third.
And that kind of defeats the purpose of having a physical keyboard.
Also, from all that typing, my thumbs are pretty sore.
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The Key 2 completely updates the Key 1 in really great ways, it's got a classier design, it's got straight sides, and the keys have moved from the left side and now all three are on the right.
What is brand new are the dual cameras on the back, this is a first for any Blackberry phone.
And the keyboard gets a new button as well, that's the speed key, and so this is something that will help you open up Your keyboard shortcuts like when you need to long press to launch an app your gonna press that first and all of the internals are upgraded as well.
So I do think that the company deserves kudos for bringing it into The modern age.
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I think that the key to this keyboard is definitely an improvement over the key one.
The keys are bigger, 20% taller, and they're also more separated.
But I still find the keyboard pretty cramped, and a lot of that just has to do with the shape of the phone.
Nobody wants a wide phone that will give you a really spacious keyboard.
So this is kind of what you're stuck with.
Also, I really hated having to use the Alt and the Shift keys to get to capitalization, numbers, and punctuation.
It didn't make a lot of sense for me to kinda go all the way over to one side of the phone every time I wanted to do that.
It was a real pain.
The fingerprint reader inside the spacebar, I really liked the placement of it, but it wasn't always accurate for me.
So I found myself having to try multiple times.
Often enough to unlock the phone other times it worked just fine and then theres this capacitive home button on top of the keyboard and, probably at least half the time that I try to go home I wind up touching the screen right above it opening up some like old text message or some app I don't wanna be in.
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Yeah, I was pretty happy with photo quality actually.
You've got the dual 12 megapixel cameras on the back, 8 megapixel camera on the front.
Photos, when you have plenty of light, were actually very good, very colorful.
Crisp and detailed.
It's when you got into low light scenarios that the camera really struggled.
Portrait mode photos were pretty usable as well.
You're not going to see all of the effects and controls that you might on other phones.
So you're not going to have extra lighting options or control the blur effect, but, again, I was pretty happy with them.
Selfies were alright there's no beauty mode, some people really like that.
I could really take it or leave it myself.
I would use a selfie but definitely not the quality that you're gonna see on some of the top tier phones.
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Yeah, you know, this isn't a cheap device and it's not for people who are focused on gaming or multimedia.
This is for people who wanna type a lot and type accurately.
These are for people who are interested in productivity.
I think that it's a really great upgrade for people have been using an older Blackberry device, but if you're switching from an all-screen phone, It's gonna be frustrating and unfamiliar especially at first.
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