But more than anything,
the BlackBerry Classic feels like a throwback to all the things we loved about BlackBerry of old.
«More than anything,
the BlackBerry Classic feels like a throwback to all the things we loved about BlackBerry of old.
Not exact matches
Two years on from a catastrophic «modernisation»,
BlackBerry has finally made a modern
BlackBerry that people who used and liked a
classic QWERTY keyboard
BlackBerry will
feel right at home with.
Compared to older QWERTY
BlackBerry designs of the past, like the
BlackBerry Bold 9900 or even the newer
BlackBerry Classic, the KEYone's 4.5» display with 3:2 aspect ratio in portrait orientation
feels positively huge.
In some ways, the back leaves us
feeling that the
Classic isn't the Spartan warrior of the
BlackBerry world that we want it to be, more the grunt.
It's a reminder that the
BlackBerry Bold was a device of its time and there's a side to the
Classic that still
feels like a device of that time.
Now, though, you have a
BlackBerry handset that not only looks,
feels, and performs like a
classic BlackBerry, but one that can also shoot images and video to the same standard as the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Google Pixel phone.
For
BlackBerry fans, we suspect the
Classic will be a popular and natural replacement to older devices, or that touchscreen
BlackBerry that never quite
felt right.
Each product it now releases is crafted for a specific audience and delivers exactly what is demanded of it - the innovative
BlackBerry Passport (Review Pictures) is for those who demand top - notch quality and want to stand out; the
BlackBerry Classic (Review Pictures) is for QWERTY loyalists who could never let go, and now the
BlackBerry Leap is for touchscreen natives who
feel that there might be something better out there than the current status quo.
The all - important physical keyboard is better than the cramped QWERTY on the Priv slider, but not in the same class as the
BlackBerry Classic, and didn't
feel as natural as the smaller
BlackBerry Bold 9900 keyboard.