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BlackBerry KEYone: All work, not enough play

The BlackBerry is a great business phone and restricts itself to just that

BlackBerry KEYone: All work, not enough play
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BlackBerry KEYone feels solid and a tad heavy; the black understated style feels at home in the boardroom

Abhik Sen New Delhi
In all the years I have used phones with touchscreens, something was missing. Four days into the review of the BlackBerry KEYone (Rs 39,900), I found out what: it was the feel of a physical keyboard.

The phone feels solid and a tad heavy; the black understated style feels at home in the boardroom. I was looking forward to using the 35-key backlit keyboard, but it took me four days to get used to typing on the physical keyboard again. 

Because of the tactile feedback, I ended up making fewer mis-types once I was set. Also, even if I encountered