Lisa Gade reviews the BlackBerry KEYone, an Android 7.1.1 smartphone with a hardware QWERTY keyboard and BlackBerry Mobile’s usual customizations— Messaging Hub, BBM, DTEK security and more. The glass and metal phone has a 4.5” display running at 1080 x 1620, and it supports both GSM and CDMA networks. It’s sold unlocked and in the US, Sprint will sell it this summer as well.
The phone has a 2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 CPU, 3GB RAM and 32GB storage plus a microSD card slot. The KEYone has a 12MP rear camera, 8MP front camera, dual band WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, GPS and a fingerprint scanner. It’s priced at $549.
