Over a month after its international launch in June, the BlackBerry KEY2 has been finally launched in India. The licensee Optiemus Infracom, a Delhi-based telecommunications company, has introduced BlackBerry’s newest flagship phone to India and has priced it at Rs.42,990.

The unique selling point of the BlackBerry KEY2 is its physical Qwerty keypad with shortcuts that help users launch apps and activate commands using a single key. In India, the BlackBerry KEY2 will be an Amazon exclusive, going on sale on the e-retailers on July 31st. Those interested in the Qwerty phone can avail of a Reliance Jio cash back offer of Rs.4,450 or an ICICI bank cash back offer, NDTV Gadgets reported.

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The company claims that the latest offering boasts the “most intelligent keyboard ever, and a battery that lasts up to 2 days”. The phone also gets a Series 7 aluminum alloy frame along with a textured diamond grip, non-slip back.

The KEY2 is BlackBerry’s first offering that comes with a horizontally-stacked dual camera setup, each of 12 megapixels. The front camera is an 8MP fixed-focus lens.

About the BlackBerry KEY 2

The dual-SIM (Nano) BlackBerry KEY2 runs on Android 8.1 Oreo out-of-the-box, and sports a 4.5-inch full-HD IPS LCD display with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass. The handset is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC (four Kryo 260 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and four clocked at 1.8GHz), combined with 6GB of RAM. It gets a 3,500mAh (typical) battery and expandable memory up to 256GB.

BlackBerry KEY 2 specifications

Specs of the BlackBerry KEY2

Technical details Product
Internal Memory 6GB RAM with either 64GB or 128GB flash memory
SD Card  Expandable up to 256GB
Camera 12MP + 12MP main cameras; and 8MP front camera 
Product Dimensions 151.4 x 71.8 x 8.5 (mm)
Screen Type 433 PPI (1620 x 1080) IPS LCD
Screen Size 4.5 inches
OS Android 8.1 Oreo
Processor Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC
Battery 3,500mAh

About the brand

BlackBerry manufactures, markets and sells smartphones globally under a brand licensing agreement with TCL Communication. Optiemus Infracom sells BlackBerry smartphones in the Indian market. It was earlier one of the most prominent smartphone vendors in the world, specializing in secure communications and mobile productivity, and was well-known for its Qwerty keyboards on most of its devices.