Optiemus Infracom Limited has just launched BlackBerry KEY2 smartphone in India. It comes with physical QWERTY keypad and was first introduced last month.
It has a fingerprint sensor embedded under space bar. It has 4-row QWERTY backlit keypad which supports flick typing and touch gestures. Moreover it offers up to 52 customizable shortcuts. The KeyTWO also comes with dedicated ‘Speed Key’ for quick launching your favorite apps.
The device measures 151.4 x 71.8 x 8.5 mm and weighs 168 grams. It has Hybrid Dual Nano SIM slots and supports 4G VoLTE. The mobile is powered by Android 8.1 Oreo OS and comes 3360 mAH battery (supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0).
The BlackBerry KEY2 (BBF100) specs include 4.5-inch multi-touch display with 1620 x 1080 pixels resolution, 3:2 aspect ratio, 433ppi pixel density and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. Inside is an octa-core (2.2GHz Kryo 260 x 4 + 1.8GHz Kryo 260 x 4) Snapdragon 660 Mobile Platform with Adreno 512 GPU.
This QWERTY Android Phone packs in 6GB RAM and comes in 64GB / 128GB storage options, both allowing further expansion up to 2TB using MicroSD card. There is an 8MP selfie camera while the back side sports 12MP (F/1.8, 1.14µm pixels, 79.3° wide-angle lens, dual PDAF) + (F/2.6, 1.0µm pixels, 50° wide-angle lens) dual rear shooters with dual-tone LED Flash.
The BlackBerry KEY2 price in India is set at Rs. 42,990 and comes in Black color (matte finishing). It will go on sale at Amazon.in starting July 31st. The device comes bundled with Rs. 4450 Reliance Jio cashback offer and 5% cashback on ICICI bank cards.