Samsung Galaxy On5 (2016) - User opinions and reviews
Literally, every other smartphone manufacturer is doing precisely the opposite right now, shaving off every possible millimetre of non-screen real-estate. Overall, the keyboard itself is actually slightly smaller than the Key2’s but it’s still 10% bigger than those on the KeyOne. Even to a committed software keyboard user, it’s very pleasant to type on, once you’ve jogged the part of your muscle memory that used to engage with such tactile things (age permitting). BlackBerry has put that permanent keyboard to full use with a useful speed key that lets you jump into apps when it’s combined with the rest of keyboard.
Meanwhile, the LE’s fingerprint sensor is stashed into the space bar and it’s both fast and reliable. One downer is the fact that there’s no capacitive trackpad function in the keyboard as there is on the Key2. That’s a real shame, as it makes navigating on the phone’s hiked-up display even more awkward than it was to begin with.
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I’ll say one thing for BlackBerry’s focus on function over form though – it means we still get a headphone jack. Also handy is the provision of a mappable shortcut button on the right-hand edge, right below the textured power button. USB-C is the chosen charging standard, so not everything here is a throwback to previous times either. BlackBerry Key2 LE – Screen The Key2 LE has been fitted with a 4.5-inch 1080 x 1620 display, much like the Key2.
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If that sounds awfully small for a modern smartphone screen, that’s because it is. The ‘small’ Google Pixel 3 model has a 5.5-inch display, for goodness’ sake. That unorthodox resolution should tell you something about where the size has been lost here. The Key2 LE’s physical keyboard has taken a huge chunk out of the available screen space, resulting in a stubby 3:2 aspect ratio. There’s obvious brightness drop-off when viewing the Key2 LE off-axis Again, this runs completely counter to current trends, where other manufacturers are spreading out to 18:9 and beyond.
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To be fair, this shorter display doesn’t have a massively negative impact in standard portrait activities like home screen navigation and web browsing. Sure, there’s less space for stuff but it doesn’t look particularly weird. It’s almost like a cropped-in iPad experience.
Where you really lose out is in media performance. Put simply, if you spend any regular amount of time watching video content or playing games on your phone, don’t buy the BlackBerry Key2 LE. Just don’t. Not only does YouTube and Netflix content have to contend with a smaller canvass to start with but it then has to shrink further and insert whopping great borders on the top and bottom due to that 3:2 aspect ratio. Plus, the phone simply looks ridiculous sat on its side, with the keyboard clinging on untidily. Not that there’s anything wrong with the actual picture quality here, mind you. It’s pixel-dense, colour-accurate and plenty bright enough.
BlackBerry Key2 LE – Performance If the BlackBerry Key2’s Snapdragon 660 was an upper-mid-range chip in a lower-top-end device, then the BlackBerry Key2 LE’s Snapdragon 636 feels about right. It’s a comfortably mid-range chip in a comfortably mid-range phone. I have no complaints about the Key2 LE’s performance. It handled all the tasks you’d associate with a hardened BlackBerry user – swapping between multiple apps, jumping into the home screen and firing off a quick message from the BlackBerry Hub – very snappily indeed; aided no doubt by to provision of 4GB of RAM. This general smoothness is reflected in the phone’s Geekbench 4 benchmark results.
An average multi-core score of 4,889 is pretty strong, while a single core score of 1,337 reflects a device that does the simple stuff snappily. That’s not too far removed from the scores I got with the Xiaomi Mi A2, which runs on the same Snapdragon 660 CPU that powers the Key2. The Moto G6 Plus, meanwhile, only scored 4,081 with its older Snapdragon 630 chip. Gaming performance was also pretty good.
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