I've been looking out for a Blackberry Keyone Black edition to replace my Priv and stumbled across this deal. Normally the phone costs £550 but mobiles.co.uk are charging £50 upfront and £27/mo for 24 months for a total price of £698. The contract attached is with O2 and provides 3GB of data along with unlimited calls and texts. Works out to £6.16/month for the phone contract. The phone itself is generally well-reviewed. It's sturdy, has a long battery life and the keyboard helps you write out emails accurately.
Key phone specs:
Dimensions - 149.1 x 72.4 x 9.4 mm (5.87 x 2.85 x 0.37 in)
Comms - Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC, FM radio
Connector - USB 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go
Battery - Non-removable 3505mAh Additional - Fingerprint Sensor in the space bar, 3.5mm jack, QuickCharge 3.0
Note: This is not the same as the silver edition though it is very similar. The silver edition has 3GB RAM and 32GB storage while this edition has 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, making it a little more futureproof.
Note: £25 cashback offer at TCB and Quidco bringing the total to £673.
Latest comments (24)
yanmouldy
19 Sep 17#24
I miss my BB Bold.
ciprians
19 Sep 17#23
received yesterday and love it
retrend
18 Sep 17#22
It's a good deal if you want this now anyway :smile:
retrend
18 Sep 17#20
It's a lot of money for any phone, never mind a mid range China blackberry Android clone thingy. £300 of phone hardware tops.
CampGareth to retrend
18 Sep 17#21
I agree that it's a lot of money and that money isn't going on the CPU, RAM, eMMC. The costly hardware features are the cameras, the case, the custom LCD, that keyboard's probably super expensive since no-one else does capacitive touch-sensitive keys.
Where's the rest of your money going? Quality control is my bet. The fit and finish on my Keyone is absolutely perfect with no odd gaps or creaks. Software's another bet, Blackberry's a small house these days so creating their own productivity apps, phone designs etc (there are two different manufacturers with the exact same phone design, so it has to be Blackberry behind it) for phones that ultimately ship in small numbers will be expensive.
Still, if you're just looking at the specs you should look elsewhere as you're missing the point. It's like saying why own a laptop when desktop computers have better specs for the money. You'd be right, but there are things a laptop's better for like portability so if you need those things you would never ever consider a desktop.
retrend
18 Sep 17#15
£700 a lot of money for a blackberry
yessuz to retrend
18 Sep 17#19
no, it is not. There are NO alternatives on the market. Literally, 0.
BigDiscovery
17 Sep 17#13
Voted hot, just because I didn't know that blackberry is still making phones, honestly I thought they went bust some years ago, lol.
yessuz to BigDiscovery
18 Sep 17#18
it is not exactly BlackBerry who is making them. it is TCL (same ones, who make Alcatel these days) who signed the licensing deal.
Agharta
16 Sep 17#6
Does it come with a DVD box set of the Back to the Future films? That would be so fly.
yessuz to Agharta
18 Sep 17#17
stupid gonna stup
ciprians
17 Sep 17#11
my order was sent and says delivery tomorrow but I doubt it ?! I never had a DPD delivery next day Monday if ordered Sunday (order approved this afternoon)
CampGareth to ciprians
17 Sep 17#12
I'm in the same boat. Ordered saturday, they said they'd need me to phone with extra details but now sunday's rolled around and apparently everything's fine, my order has been shipped and I have a valid tracking number.
Will post here if I get a 'delivery today' text from DPD tomorrow.
CampGareth to ciprians
18 Sep 17#14
Delivery today by 1pm, looks like DPD can do next day delivery from sunday to monday :grin:
*edit* Arrived, loving how it feels in the hand. Arrived unlocked so I put my unlimited data Three Sim in it. Now to pawn the O2 Sim off on friends or family.
ciprians to CampGareth
18 Sep 17#16
same here
Syst3mzero
17 Sep 17#10
hot. I miss keyboards, the last time I enjoyed typing on a phone was the Nokia e72. would so get this if my mobile plan wasn't so much cheaper (£30 per year) and I hadn't just got a new phone 4 months ago.
jaques_kalis
16 Sep 17#8
just trying to understand why do someone still need a phone with physical keyboard and a small screen...
CampGareth to jaques_kalis
17 Sep 17#9
In short there are two ways to use a smartphone. There's media consumption where for instance you watch youtube heavily. There's also communication where you spend a lot of time writing replies, emails and whatever. This phone sucks for media consumption you're right, an S8 would be a much better phone for that.
Personally though I spend a lot of time writing, what with email, slack, Facebook messenger, replies to hukd threads, tweets, etc. I find 98% of typing on my phone is on the physical keyboard despite the onscreen keyboard being perfectly viable. My accuracy is higher, my need for autocorrect is lower, generally a physical keyboard is better if you need to type a lot.
ciprians
16 Sep 17#7
thanks ordered also have the silver one since day one on the work line
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Key phone specs:
RAM - 4GB
Camera - Primary 12 MP, f/2.0, dual-LED (dual tone) flash, 1/2.3'' sensor size, 1.55µm pixel size, Video [email protected]
Additional - Fingerprint Sensor in the space bar, 3.5mm jack, QuickCharge 3.0
Note: This is not the same as the silver edition though it is very similar. The silver edition has 3GB RAM and 32GB storage while this edition has 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, making it a little more futureproof.
Note: £25 cashback offer at TCB and Quidco bringing the total to £673.
Latest comments (24)
Where's the rest of your money going? Quality control is my bet. The fit and finish on my Keyone is absolutely perfect with no odd gaps or creaks. Software's another bet, Blackberry's a small house these days so creating their own productivity apps, phone designs etc (there are two different manufacturers with the exact same phone design, so it has to be Blackberry behind it) for phones that ultimately ship in small numbers will be expensive.
Still, if you're just looking at the specs you should look elsewhere as you're missing the point. It's like saying why own a laptop when desktop computers have better specs for the money. You'd be right, but there are things a laptop's better for like portability so if you need those things you would never ever consider a desktop.
That would be so fly.
Will post here if I get a 'delivery today' text from DPD tomorrow.
*edit* Arrived, loving how it feels in the hand. Arrived unlocked so I put my unlimited data Three Sim in it. Now to pawn the O2 Sim off on friends or family.
I miss keyboards, the last time I enjoyed typing on a phone was the Nokia e72.
would so get this if my mobile plan wasn't so much cheaper (£30 per year) and I hadn't just got a new phone 4 months ago.
Personally though I spend a lot of time writing, what with email, slack, Facebook messenger, replies to hukd threads, tweets, etc. I find 98% of typing on my phone is on the physical keyboard despite the onscreen keyboard being perfectly viable. My accuracy is higher, my need for autocorrect is lower, generally a physical keyboard is better if you need to type a lot.
also have the silver one since day one on the work line
This isn't a mixer tap either though!