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Blackberry has launched its latest KEYone smartphone in India for Rs. 39,990. The smartphone was teased in India for the entire last week, and finally, the brand pulled the wraps off the attractive smartphone. For the unaware, the Blackberry KEYone was first unveiled at the MWC 2017 event in Barcelona earlier this year, and it would be the last smartphone from the house of Blackberry before TCL Communications taking the reigns.
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In India though, Optiemus, a Noida-based manufacturing company will distribute and produce Blackberry smartphones. The Blackberry KEYone features mid-range hardware, unlike the high-end hardware seen on earlier Blackberry smartphones. Further, the device is priced aggressively, which is a much-expected thing from Blackberry.
Blackberry launched the limited edition Black colour variant of the KEYone in India, and it costs Rs. 39,990. As was the case with earlier Blackberry smartphones, the KEYone also sports a QWERTY keypad. The fingerprint scanner on the device is integrated into the space bar of the keypad, and Blackberry says every key in the QWERTY keypad is customisable. Blackberry also claims that the scanner unlocks the device in just 0.5 seconds, and even works with wet fingers.
The smartphone sports a 4.5-inch display, carrying a resolution of 1620 x 1080 pixels. The international variant of the KEYone has just 3GB of RAM, while the Indian version of the KEYone has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. And yes, the smartphone is powered by the same Snapdragon 625 octa-core chipset. The storage is expandable up to 2TB with a microSD card.
