BlackBerryKeyone 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 existsSynapse: AMAZING battery life, great functionality/productivity, great buildLong Version after 1 month's use- it's worth the readStraight 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/OSVery 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.

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.

Bought since my old keyone would no longer hold a charge. Since the moment I turned it on it has been defective. Constantly freezing or powering off. Used for 4 days and had so many issues it will no longer turn on no matter what I try. I love my keyone but this is seriously making me never want to purchase another one. And all the research I’ve done to try and find answers makes me lean more towards the dreaded iPhone. Will be returning if/when I can clear my information off. Very disappointing