BlackBerry KEY2 launched in India: All about QWERTY keypad, dual Cameras
New Delhi : After the launch in international market, BlackBerry KEY2 is now available in the Indian market. The device is launched today by licensee Optiemus Infracom. It is the first BlackBerry-branded smartphone with dual camera setup, and has in-built features such as portrait mode and optical zoom.
BlackBerry KEY2 comes in a Series 7 aluminium alloy frame, a textured diamond grip back panel, and a physical QWERTY keyboard that comes with certain intelligent shortcuts helping users launch apps and activate commands with the press of a single key.
BlackBerry KEY2 price in India
In India, the BlackBerry KEY2 price is available at Rs. 42,990. The first sale will be through Amazon India from July 31. Sources confirmed that the cell phone purchase will come with Reliance Jio cashback offer of Rs. 4,450 and ICICI bank cashback offer. There will be additional launch benefits, the company said.
BlackBerry KEY2 design and specification
The smartphone is designed for the QWERTY keypad and with all the latest specifications. The back of the phone is made of textured plastic, and sports a horizontally-stacked dual camera setup, with the BlackBerry logo sitting in the rear centre. The 3.5mm audio jack sits on the top edge, while all the power and volume buttons are placed on the right-edge of the device. There's also a convenience 'Speed' key on the right edge that automatically opens any app that you set it to.
The dual-SIM (Nano) BlackBerry KEY2 runs Android 8.1 Oreo and sports a 4.5-inch full-HD (1080x1620 pixels) IPS LCD display with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass, a 3:2 aspect ratio, a pixel density of 433ppi, and 24-bit colour depth. The handset is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC combined with 6GB of RAM.
In camera front, the BlackBerry KEY2 has a horizontal dual camera setup with two 12-megapixel rear sensors that include Dual Tone LED flash, HDR, 4K video recording at 30FPS, and dual PDAF. The primary sensor has a FoV (Field of View) of 79.3 degrees, 1.28-micron pixels, and an f/1.8 aperture, while the secondary sensor has a 50-degree FoV, 1.0 micron pixels, and f/2.6 aperture. On the front, the smartphone gets an 8-megapixel fixed focus with screen flash and full-HD video recording.
The smartphone comes in 64GB and 128GB internal storage variants, expandable via microSD card (up to 256GB). Talking about connectivity, the BlackBerry KEY2 include 4G LTE (on both SIM cards), Wi-Fi 802.11ac (dual-band 2.4GHz, 5GHz), Bluetooth v5.0 LE, GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, NFC, FM radio, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and USB Type-C. A 3500mAh battery powers in the internals from beneath the hood, with Quick Charge 3.0 support which is said to provide a mixed use battery life of over 25 hours. The handset includes accelerometer, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, hall effect sensor, fingerprint sensor (on spacebar key), magnetometer, and proximity sensor. Dimensions of the BlackBerry KEY2 are 151.4x71.8x8.5mm and weight is 168 grams.
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