By David MacDonald R emember when the topic of phones and presidents was an innocent one? Do you remember all the late night hosts teasing President Obama about his Black- berry and how he had fallen behind the times –he couldn’t even Tweet on his Blackberry because of security concerns and had to use his aide’s iPhone to send his first in 2015.
Nougat Android OS and supports all the Android apps your heart desires.
This is all on top of an improved keyboard and a full HD 4.50- inch touchscreen display – with optional on-screen keyboard.
Gareth Hern from Blackberry Mobile told the BBC’s Chris Foxx in April that the new manufacturer, TCL, is a global leader in smartphone design. The combination of TCL’s reputation and people’s fond memories of using their Blackberry has already garnered serious attention in the smartphone world.
Sigh.
Well, if you’ve found yourself pining for the days of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and a world where the Van- couver Canucks are Stanley Cup contenders, this might be the kind of announcement you’ve been waiting for: Blackberry just got a 2017 makeover – and it’s pretty hot (for an Android).
The Key One won 11 awards at the Mobile World Congress in March.
It’s called the Key One and it’s a whole lot of new in an old package.
There are no rumours about President Trump possibly going for the Obama look and sporting a Blackberry on his belt, but the option of minimizing the on-screen keyboard and using the keyboard when you’re nodding off in the Lincoln Bedroom might make those “covfefe” moments a thing of the past.
Its camera has the same sensor as the Google Pixel and a pixel density of 434 pixels per inch; it has a long asked for fingerprint sensor in the space bar; it runs the latest 7.1
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