Keyone Limited Edition Black 64GB GSM ONLY Factory Unlocked

Overall I wish that I had run into this phone earlier as there's nothing on the market that suited my taste. BB you seriously need to improve your marketing; random people on the train and in public ask what it is that I am using as they are shocked to find out that BB still exists Synapse: AMAZING battery life, great functionality/productivity, great build Long Version after 1 month's use- it's worth the read Straight out of the box, after the initial set up you are asked if you want to upgrade to the new Android Oreo 8.1 OS. Battery: This is certainly the category where the KeyOne outshines every phone I've every played with thus far. Having the habits of heavy texting, a lot of emailing, a couple webpages and maybe a 10 minute youtube video a day; I can get really close to 3 days of juice out of this. On a weekend where I wouldn't use it as much, it can get close to 4 days on a full charge. A great feature is a turbo charge, you can plug it into a source for 15 minutes, and you'll easily get over 25% charge. Build: The body is made out of several pieces of Aluminum, many of the premium handdsets are milled from 1 piece. However it's really nicely done, all of the pieces are flush and perfect. The backplate is a rubber compound, helps give you a good grip on the device. It's a bit heavier than most phones, it's a good heavy though, it has the feel like it's a quality device and not a cheap piece of plastic. I definitely know that I haven't forgotten it at home or somewhere else, I like it. Display/Sound: Display is solid, IPS touch screen, nice color range. The sound is above average for media, good listening volume is only a 1/3 of the way up. I do like the call the call quality a lot. I had no problem hearing someone speaking as I was walking under the elevated tracks as an EL train was roaring by, good clarity. Processor/OS Very fluid to the touch, there's no lag when you're swiping around on the screen. Web pages load very fast. You can load up on the apps in the background and the KeyOne seems to handle it very well. Functionality/Productivity: The keyboard has a great feel to it and easy to get used to if you're a first time BB user. The fingerprint sensor is in the spacebar, very quick and responsive. A great feature is using any of the keys as a dedicated shortcut to call, email, launch an app, new events depending if you long/short press a key.... very very useful. You can use the entire keyboard as a trackpad, super cool. Given that it's a physical keyboard, I've seen that you can enable Swype if you like that feature. Also, you can control the brightness of the backlit keyboard, useful if you text at night. Another intuitive feature is the word completion, while typing long words, the predictive text will show 3 likely words at the bottom of the screen you can use the keyboard to flick upwards to complete which word you want; I found this to speed up emailing. There are other productive features where you can easily juggle messaging, email, work email using BB's hub... pinch, snap, customize sounds and leds, read and still outstanding.... very nicely done. There's a lot of functionality with the calendar such as a direct call invite to a meeting, warning of double bookings etc. Lastly among other features is a sidebar that flicks out where you can control the productivity functions. I'm learning new tips and tricks every day from other users and videos. Camera: Lastly the camera, I personally think that the camera is very good, I've already used it to scan documents and they've come out very well. No complaints about video quality when I participated in video conference.

UPDATE: After finally receiving the Oreo update on my keyone, black limited edition black (BBB100-7), i received an on screen notice that my device was now connected to an optiemus server, AND that tarriff fees may apply!!! There was NO opt out option. This message never appeared before the Oreo update. There were no notices from either Amazon or the seller (mercato group) that my device would be automatically, without consent, connected to a foreign server and that my data and personal information could be subjected to inspection by a foreign entity/government. I'm in the process of addressing this issue with Amazon and the seller. Buyer be ware! This is unsettling and of grave concern. Love the pkb. Phone is great!

Great while it lasted!

I am a working man who travels quite a bit, so this review is mostly for people in that boat. I had a Samsung Galaxy S5 (with Verizon bloatware) on it. I've also used an iPhone (latest was 4S), and I've also used older RIM Blackberries (I don't remember any of the model numbers because who cares?). I liked aspects of all of these phones, and this phone seems to combine them all into a fabulous package (I bought the 64GB International Unlocked with Micro SD and sim card slots): 1. Physical keyboard! With a keyboard, you get far greater typing accuracy, meaning that you can type a long email while you stand in the security line at the airport. In other words, you can send all of your in-depth emails immediately and not have them all piled-up and waiting for you in your hotel room in the evening. 2. Micro SD card slot. Running out of disk space is more of an inconvenience to me than swapping out a sim card in some other country. The 128GB sim cards are in the $40 range as of this review. Now I can load up my phone with all kinds of garbage. 3. Android. I fully believe that RIM's attempt to have their own operating system is what ultimately did in the Blackberry. I love that I can plug an Android phone into a computer and have it treated as another external drive instead of ever needing to load iTunes ever again. 4. The camera is even good! I always liked the iPhone camera (because it was always fast to point and shoot) over the Samsung (maybe it was user error, but it seemed like it had a narrow depth of focus, so I'd always take awful photos when I was in a hurry). This camera is closer to how I remember the iPhone. 5. No bloatware. My Samsung Galaxy S5 was 16GB and the internal memory was always full. I moved as much as I could to the external disk (images, videos, etc), I did cache cleanings and it still is full. Why did I put up with this nonsense for so long? The only remaining question is reliability. I plan to use this phone for years, so hopefully it won't fall apart too quickly. I'll make an update if anything goes wrong.

I will never buy from this seller again. Phone came in and has not worked or anything for me. I have it drop calles when I am on a important business call.

I am quite Happy and Satisfied with my BlackBerry Black Edition. I am writing this Review after a week's use of my BB. PROS: 1. Battery: It has Fantastic Battery Life. I am a Normal User of Phone and for me, the Battery last for almost 30 hours. 2. Keyboard: Typing is Fun. But it will take around 1 week to get used to it. Not for Big fingers. 3. Convenience Key: Very useful for daily-quick Tasks. 4. Fingerprint Sensor: Works like a Charm. 5. Blackberry Hub: One Place to Manage all Accounts. 6. Camera: Not the Best. But still Very Good. 7. Productivity Tab: Just two words - 'Very Productive'. 8. Design and Build Quality: I Love the Design and the Build is Sturdy. Feels Professional. CONS: 1. Earphones that come with it are not that great. Seems to be Okay. 2. The scarcity of cases. Very few options for Cases. 3. Not suitable for Gaming. But anyways BB's were never famous for Gaming. 4. Landscape Mode typing is inconvenient. But who needs Landscape Mode on this device. 5. Screen ratio little bit odd for some Videos.

I wanted a quick review before I seek a replacement or refund. This is a great phone like others have stated and a clear step above the Blackberry PRIV which I'm currently using. Received the phone in the shipping timeline, bought a SD card and was able to set everything up for AT&T with 4g LTE. The one problem I have been having is that the tethering hotspot button is grayed out. After spending several hours both online with AT&T and replacing my sim card, a google search finally gave me an answer. Crackberry came to the rescue. PRD-63116-039 has hotspot functioning, PRD-63116-042 has the hotspot disabled. In the details for this product from this seller the PRD-63116-039 is listed. The item I received was the other version ending in 042. I’m hoping to get my current device replaced with the correct version in order to continue to enjoy this phone. Thanks Update 4/11/2018: After getting settled in new job and home I came back to Amazon to buy a new Key one and found that the PRD number was missing in description. I called Amazon and they could not find which PRD number from the direct Amazon store. I checked the 3rd party websites and could not find this information. Amazon customer service advised me to buy the direct from Amazon item and that I could send it back if the product had the PRD number with hot spot disabled. Thankfully the model I received was the PRD numerb ending 039 and I was able to use the hot spot on At&t network and used google transfer app to transfer all apps including AT&T apps from PRIV to Key one. I highly recommend this phone and updated my rating to 5 stars

Update, after a month of daily use: - Dropping my rating to three stars. It's not the hardware, it's the software. - BlackBerry Passport power users: you *will* miss BB10. - Android has stunning issues and omissions (like a lack of default, OS-level control of the sounds/volume/notifications! You have to use wonky, inconsistent third-party apps to do things BB10 had from the factory) - The keyboard really IS too small for my large fingers. Using the phone every day is not helping, it's only making me miss my Passport more. If I could type accurately on such a tiny little physical space, I wouldn't be so against touchscreens in the first place. I could just get a Note or an iPhone. This device needs to be 20% wider! - Note to TCL: Please make a larger model! The whole premise of BlackBerry and the physical keyboard is productivity. Leave the dainty small snapchatting phones to Apple and the gaming to Samsung. Place productivity above all else ("Tools, not toys!") and you will have a customer base. Original review: To start, I should declare myself a bit of a loyalist. I transitioned to this phone this week, after three years with a BlackBerry Passport -- by far the best phone I have ever owned. My remarks will probably be most useful to those considering a similar trade up. Most of the weakness of this phone are inherited, directly or indirectly, from its operating system. Android is powerful, and indeed enjoys a broad ecosystem of apps -- but it is still a clunky, intensely frustrating experience for me, even though I'm very familiar with it through my Kindle Fire and my Android based Sony Bravia smart TV. In no iteration is it devoid of bugs, or anywhere near as bug free as BB10 was. Alas, BB10 simply arrived too late to hold any market share, so to move forward one must either accept Android, or switch to iOS. As a handset, the KeyOne Black Edition was probably the best of my options. I sorely miss the square aspect ratio, hefty weight, and wider keyboard of the Passport, all of which made it ideally suited to productivity tasks, and rapid typing with zero autocorrect. Yes it was big, but that is exactly why I loved it. The KeyOne is very similar in size to an iPhone X, if that provides a point of reference. The keyboard is not as instantly usable as the Passport's was to me three years ago, as I have big, clumsy fingers. However, it feels a lot like my old BlackBerry Curve, and I do welcome the return of the shift and alt keys, which are extremely useful. Overall I would have preferred a slightly larger and heavier device, but I recognize this one needs to be all things for all people, and some folks insist on a phone that can slip into a tight pair of jeans or a purse. It looks sophisticated and worth its price. The reports of acceptable battery life are legit. Under heavy use, with lots of app installations during my first week with the phone, I am still making it through a full day with 50% of my battery to spare. Solid work from TCL here. Likewise, while the general specs are roughly a match for mid-level Android phones, the extra gigabyte of RAM is a good idea and I feel it (and the additional storage) are worth the mere $50 step from the regular KeyOne to the Black Edition. The camera is great, and can be further augmented through apps if you are so inclined. Every single gripe I might have would also be true for any other Android device. And yes, I have many of them. But none are BlackBerry or TCL's fault. The BlackBerry Hub survives and even improves over BB10's already very effective design. I easily set up multiple email accounts, color coded them, added social media accounts, etc. Alas, after four days I discovered there is no native sound profile app on Android -- one must use third party apps for that, which took hours of trial, error, and configuration for a feature BB10 had fully integrated and out of the box. Overall, though, this is a solid device. It sounds as if KeyOnes have sold well, which raises my hopes that we'll have new models to eventually continue the line. If, like me, you find pure-touchscreen devices deeply infuriating (after two years with a Kindle Fire I still can't stand even doing simple Google searches, because my touchscreen typing accuracy has never improved), you will appreciate this phone. Tactile keyboards are NOT antiquated -- otherwise why do our computers and laptops still have them? You can't say that's purely for nostalgia, or solely to placate a narrow sliver of backwards consumers. It's because when real productivity and accuracy is needed, only a real keyboard provides it. I don't use my phone solely to snapchat with my neice or tweet about my cat. I do serious writing and heavy email, often with many abbreviations and technical terms. For such things, this phone may be among the best out there.

I was using Iphone for a few years now. I can't say I am an Iphone fan. My latest Iphone was an Iphone 7 and I was very disappointed about the camera sow I wanted something new and different. I said I will give a try to this Blackberry just for the keyboard and I am very happy that I made this decision. This is an impressive phone. I am using it for almost a week now and the phone works perfectly. The camera is great, The battery is great and you have the feeling that you have an expensive phone in your hand. Has personality, is different. I think the black version looks way better than the silver one. I had the chance to keep the silver on my hand and I wasn't impressed. Sow far the only downside for me is the speaker witch is too low and if you put the sound to max sounds bed. Iphone wasn't good at this point eater sow I can live with that!!!! Also the headphones are sucks too. I am still using the Iphone heaphones with my new Blackberry. This two downsides worth to buy the phone because everything else is awesome.

I bought this phone to replace my four year old Passport. After a couple of weeks of full time use, I'm back to loving the four row keyboard and able to fly on it as quickly as I did my Passport. It's a whole new world easily accessing a variety of apps and having a fully functional browser again. The 4GB RAM and 64 GB storage leaves lots of room for apps and media while allowing the phone to operate many apps simultaneously with few issues I debated between the Black and Silver. I'm glad I chose Black, because I sometimes get warnings about RAM usage and even when I close some apps, I'm always at or near 3GB. The extra RAM makes a difference. After coming from BlackBerry 10 devices, the change to Android has gone relatively smoothly even though I do miss some things from BlackBerry 10. If you can't afford the Key2 and want a touch sensitive keyboard, I would highly recommend this device as a solid, relatively affordable upgrade to an Android PKB device.

Great device! I have had this for just over a month now and it has proven to be all I expected. Having used an iPhone for almost 5 years it is nice to be able to get things done. No more having to work around Apples goofy systems to allow me to work day in and day out. Battery lasts forever, keyboard is a little tight but usable. The only thing I would change is the location of the external buttons, having the lock button on the top like the old Bold's. I also hit the volume buttons in error sometimes. Can't wait to see what Blackberry Mobile comes out with next with a full keyboard, the closer to the Bold the better.

I really enjoyed using the phone since i am a past BB fan. Keyboard is wonderful and just what I expected! The shortcut keys are my favourite feature and you get used to it as a trackpad and I type much faster with it. NEGATIVE: I believe the item I received is defective in that when making/receiveing a telephone call and using the loudspeaker function, the microphone does not work! The other person can not hear me unless i am using the earpiece. In other words, I am not able to use the speakerphone as the microphone is somehow muted to the other person. This is extremely frustrating! I left Canada after purchasing the phone without a method to return the item within the allowed time period and have been with BB support for weeks without any solution. I would like to believe that this is a software issue and can be resolved remotely.

When I first got the phone, it seemed ok, but within a few weeks glitches started.. kind of subtly, then all the time.. In sleep mode, it just wakes up on its own for no reason and the Wi-Fi disconnects all the time! There is more static with phone calls and seems a bit choppy at times then compared to other phones I have used. I loved the Blackberry 10 system, wish I never left! I'm also finding the physical keyboard annoying! I don't need it any more, would have also preferred a full screen. I reset/rebooted the phone several times and did some research to find out if was me or the phone, and it would seem others are having these same issues. Some have had to wipe the phone completely and some have worked after and some found no changes. I got this phone DEC 24th 2019, so its not even a year old. Not happy with it, don't waste your money. After many years of being a royal Blackberry fan, Blackberry has let me down.. They should never have left Blackberry 10. I might just switch back to my Blackberry 10 Z30, True it didn't have all the apps perhaps, (Although I did have Google Play on it) but at least it was stable!