BlackBerry KEY2 Review: 3 Reasons It's My Next Phone 

MellFromRU-vid same here

MellFromRU-vid I am not even subscribed to others.

Same here.

This is exactly what I did ..skipped around 7 other reviews to come here !!

Always sure of high quality content in a well-edited upload of a surviveable length. Some of this stuff in the 15-30 minute window is death.

The Passport was the best phone ever.

hahaha...exactly what i want to.

Hi, I have 3 questions which I would appreciate if you could provide any feedback. 1) Does the Blackberry Key1 have voice texting? 2) Is Whatsapp supported? and 3) can Blackberry contacts from the Torch, backed up by Blackerry Desktop Softeware, be restored/transferred onto the Blackberry Key1? Thanks, Ronnie

joey_rooklyn my IPhone 6s felt like a toy compared to my passport silver edition. Which was more like a handheld computer.

Bordnick Gold I wouldn’t say entirely unbiased, but sure.

Arrad to be fair we are talking about a person here and everyone has that one brand they prefer. Give credit where credit is due.

www.thepetitionsite.com/737/034/318/bring-back-blackberry-10/?taf_id=57895019&cid=twitter#bbfb=499256886

True

RagingUtai and that's what I said on my channel too 😉

RagingUtai This is not the best all arounder. It is the best for you, not for everyone. The sales will prove that.

"Don't be fooled by reviewers ... This is the best all round phone"

daydreaming nightdreaming Just like with anything niche, they aren't supposed to sell like "the big players." Those players you mention try to target as many people as possible by all selling you the fastest phone with the best screen and highest quality camera and so on. Everything I see that happens with Apple or Samsung or whatever all amount to the same things with differences amounting to gimmicky things like changing your face into some kind of cartoon animal or some such. What I've noticed about every BlackBerry phone I've ever used is that two things always seem to take priority: productivity and security. Generally speaking, their screen isn't as good as the supposed competition, nor is the camera, nor is the media/game capabilities. What is usually better are things like battery life and efficiency in doing things while wrapping it all in a security focused blanket. Maybe BlackBerry could have done the shotgun approach had they done things differently earlier on, but I'm actually glad they didn't. Being in the position they're in forces them to take a more focused approach. That approach isn't going to be on the media-centric users. They get that from every other phone on the planet. They aren't going to target the selfie artists or other budding photographers. They already tried that and it didn't really work. The absolute biggest thing anyone goes to BlackBerry for is their physical keyboard. A physical keyboard encompasses an entire mindset of functionality over fashion. Those who want to type more accurately, who want shortcuts or the ability to type without looking, who want feedback of each press so they know for certain they actually typed something. Not many people care about that stuff. typng w bad spllng & grammar not 4 bb users. That is for everyone else who uses a touch screen. BlackBerry users care about communication and security, about productivity on the go. I could care less if I can't watch a youtube video at 4k resolution on my phone or take better photos than my competition on Instagram or be able to take that slow motion video of whatever. I barely watch youtube on my phone and I use Instagram almost never, or any other social media offering for that matter. My social media includes phone calls, SMS, BBM with my family, and shaking another person's hand. I manage bills and expenses. I email and research and I educate myself. The physical keyboard helps me do all those things much more efficiently and accurately and why I continue to be a BlackBerry fan today.

when you upload to any social media it tries to give the users the best quality based on the bandwidth. I could film in 4k and upload to RU-vid, but most people will see it at 720p on their phone.

Have you used one? Is the scrolling as faulty as people say?

@@derricksearles610 If it works like the scrolling on the Priv key it is just perfect!

@@derricksearles610 yes the scrolling on the keyones keyboard is not smooth like that on a passport. Its sometimes glitchy. Sometimes the screen starts behaving as if it's getting the scroll input from the keyboard, if there is a little bit of dust on the keyboard.

Techno Ruhez bhai aap yaha ?? Aap ko vi best of luck hame v mr. Mobile ki tarha aap ki chennal pe hindi me video chahiye quality 🔥

Many people still don't know he has a seperate channel.

Well, he has 1 million now

Lol

Forflies lol

Forflies I cannot buy it becas I em use to > key board 😞💔

Highly doubt that will happen, nice joke tho

chemicalsam ???

I was 13 when I got my first blackberry, hated that I couldn't do the same as what you did. Bold 3 still have that lil dude.

BlackBerry mobile hardware is dead. It is TCL Chinese!

James Spencer Ha! Seems like RU-vid targeting is doing its job. I have no control over what AdSense does.

Thanks for the reply man!!Supplementary question, have you thought about taking a look at the Acer Switch 3/5?

Nah, I don't play with Acer stuff too much. You never know, though; thanks for the suggestion!

Nice

I know I'm late but all I want is another passport running android

@@ordinarygamer1353 i know!! any idea if its coming early or late 2020? or do we still have to wait a whole other year... :(

@@MrXDr3AMZx I'm afraid it's not coming:/ I don't have any concrete details but it doesn't make any sense that it would make a comeback :/ I do think that the key3 will come 2020 though. So I'm holding out hope for that and I plan on getting that if it does! But the passport is definitely not coming back. It's nice to hope for it but let's be realistic there's no real market for it. So it's not coming back:/

I'm hoping, but most certainly not gonna be holding my breath for that one #TeamPassport2

Paul Simjay Blackberry announced they will stop producing phones from August 2020 and won‘t develop new phones so RIP Blackberry😢

Kshitij Kumar Same

Kshitij Kumar So What?

Omar El Garhy On the key2 the shortcuts work anywhere compared to the key1 where you had to be on their launcher home screen.

Jake Kimball Thank you.

The shortcuts do work anywhere and with any launcher ... but ONLY when pressing the Speed Key.

thank you for this reply. I will delete my question I just posted.

AdamIsTalking yea blackberry is always "to confident" with its pricing. The only phones from blackberry i bought were blackberry 8520 and z10 (after the price drop, it was $300)

I would honestly buy this with a low end processor and worse camera if it meant getting it for a much lower price. I simply cant bring myself to spend more than $300 on a smartphone.

I couldn't afford more than £300 even if I wanted to... But if they did something along the same lines of the Moto G series, I think it'd do surprisingly well.

It is a high price point, but when you look at the DTEK50 it is still getting updates. How many sub $300 phones are still getting security updates?

Michael Duffy only security updates for 2 years since its release. No OS upgrade.

Actually the keyboards on keyone/key2 are modelled with classic and bolds kept in mind.

I'm using one in 2024, and for a light user like me, it's fine. A little slow sometimes but if you have a smidge of patience it's not a problem. I imagine it would struggle with anything more than the social media apps and web browser that is basically all I use it for though.

Using it right now, and I don't really see how its slow at all. It works incredibly well for me!

​@@ivanthemountainman9291 I guess it depends on what you want to use it for - if you're just trying to make calls, texts and emails it's perfectly snappy. But if you're trying to have more than a couple tabs open in a web browser, or use just about any social media app, etc. it lags pretty badly compared to a more recent model of phone. Not unusable, just not exactly quick and getting less so all the time.

@@ivanthemountainman9291does it still work for calls/SMS?

Is it as slow as he makes it out to be? Can't afford the key2 so thinking of grabbing the black edition

Atishay Sinha keyone has the same processor as a Nokia 6.1 ,but with 4gb ram. It's not very fast but keyboard makes up for it .however after using it for a year ,my keyboard spacebar sometimes doesn't works well. But it's working good from last 3 days .and ten battery is a beast. 9 hours on screen time .

Kenn Hadnot better takes the oneplus 6

Took the words right out my mouth as far price and preferred T-Mobile interest free financing. If it has wireless charging and possibly an OLED/AMOLED screen, I wouldn't mind paying retail.

Kenn Hadnot why? I paid $1,200 for my X lol

I like how you think, I'm not paying no more than 600 for a phone anymore

I think I will take that approach thx

Unless that secret agent gets caught and needs to pull a gun with one of his hands while trying to send a secret message, which leaves one less thumb to type on that hardware keyboard.

Warren Mingrajal there is an undrafted rule among secret agents "NEVER SLING AND TYPE"

TRINITRON TV You never know when they have to "cross the streams."

That hub thing is the greatest piece of sh** ever in terms of performance and usability. A blackberry S50, which was absolute crap and ended up eating it's BIOS or something, and then a Motion was forced on me as a phone for work. Now I installed the Outlook app and everything is fine for me except I cant deactivate the Hub because of admin stuff...

They'd have to update the original first.

I wish they release the passport with Android on it

Con.D. Oriano it would be sooooo laggy

The PRIV 2 is what I'm waiting for too!

AZ3R ABDI The Second that thing is announed this iPhone X is being replaced. I loved the Priv but it just cant keep up anymore. No fingerprint, micro usb, marshmallow... Just a rerelease with smaller bezels, front facing speakers and face ID would me enough for me

RoseWolfz Prime lol what do you mean privacy?

I never regret that I have bought K1.. no slow downs and it´s just doin´ things done :)

No regrets buying my KeyOne. No other phone like it on the market, except the Key2 of course

Why, you mean the weird screen aspect ratio? I have the priv and it's the best of both worlds, I wish Blackberry made a new priv.

sushant tiwari I think 450$ is perfect price fr a sd660 phn with physical keyboard.......

I doubt $450 - $550... I literally waited for the KeyOne hoping for a price drop around the holidays. Nothing.

sushant tiwari This phone is not for you. Go home and get a different one.

B. Cherry look around on amazon. I got a Keyone black edition for 500 after tax (CAD) from marketplace, and they ended up sending me a new one.

Muzzamil Ahmad .... get an iPhone X. That’s a good deal!

Too bad BlackBerry Mobile announced that they're gonna stop making them this year. But UniHertz has the Titan and they're already working on their next QWERTY smartphone

My priv got clunky FAST

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