BlackBerry KEY2 Red Edition Announced at $749 (INR 53,200)

Blackberry at MWC 2019 introduced a new variant for the Blackberry KEY2 smartphone, which was announced in Silver and Black colours in last year. The smartphone will now be available in a deep red Series 7 Aluminum frame and will exhibit black accents at the textured rear. The Blackberry KEY2 Red Edition has a 4-row physical QWERTY backlit keyboard that gets a capacitive touch. It gets a price tag of $749 (INR 53,200 approx.) and will be available for pre-orders in Europe exclusively on BlackBerry Mobile’s online store.

Powering the Blackberry KEY2 Red Edition is an Octa-Core Snapdragon 660 processor with Adreno 512 GPU. It runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) and gets 6GB RAM with 128GB of internal storage. The smartphone is equipped with a 3360mAh battery and exhibits a 4.5-inch 3:2 display with 433 PPI and a resolution of 1620 x 1080 pixels.

The Blackberry KEY2 Red Edition gets a dual rear camera setup with a 12MP primary camera with f/1.8 aperture and a 12MP secondary camera with f/2.6 aperture. It also gets an 8MP front-facing camera and a fingerprint sensor in the space bar.

BlackBerry KEY2 Red Specs

• 4.5-inch (1620 x 1080 pixels) 3:2 display with 433 PPI
• Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection
• Octa Core Snapdragon 660 14nm Mobile Platform
• Quad 2.2GHz Kryo 260 + Quad 1.8GHz Kryo 260 CPUs
• Adreno 512 GPU
• 6GB RAM, 128GB internal storage
• Expandable memory up to 2TB with microSD
• 4-row Physical QWERTY backlit keyboard with capacitive touch
• Android 8.1 (Oreo), Hybrid dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD)
• 12MP rear camera with dual-tone LED Flash, f/1.8 aperture, 1.14µm pixel size, 79.3-degree wide-angle lens, Dual PDAF
• 12MP secondary rear camera with f/2.6 aperture, 1.0µm pixel size, 50-degree lens
• 8MP front-facing camera
• Fingerprint sensor in the space bar, Speed Key
• 3.5mm audio jack, HD audio, FM Radio, Dual microphones
• Dimensions: 151.4×71.8×8.5mm
• Weight: 168 grams
• 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4 & 5 GHz)
• Bluetooth 5 LE, GPS / GLONASS, NFC, USB 3.0 Type-C
• 3360mAh battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0