BlackBerry launches KEYone smartphone in India All you need to know

BlackBerry on Tuesday launched KeyOne smartphone in India at a price of Rs 39,990. The smartphone is manufactured by TCL which has the license to make and distribute BlackBerry smartphones in India. The phone shall be exclusively available on Amazon.The new BlackBerry phone will go on sale from August 8 onward.

Display and Processor: BlackBerry KeyOne comes with 4.5-inch LCD IPS display with 3:2 aspect ratio and resolution of 1620 x 1080 pixels with a pixel density of 434 ppi. The processor on the BlackBerry KeyOne is Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 and the phone comes with 3GB RAM on board, along with 32GB storage. There’s also support for a microSD card with up to 2TB limit. Battery on the BlackBerry KeyOne is 3505 mAh with the company promising 26 hours of talktime.

On the camera front, BlackBerry KeyOne has a 12MP rear camera with the Sony IMX378 sensor and 1.125um pixel size. The front camera is 8MP. The highlight of the BlackBerry KeyOne is not just the specifications, but the actual physical keyboard. It has the four row physical keyboard on the front, but this one doesn’t slide up like it did on the BlackBerry Priv.

The KeyOne has a smart keyboard, which also responds to touch gestures, and has 52 shortcuts which can be customized. The fingerprint scanner is embedded inside the space bar of the BlackBerry KeyOne.