Blackberry Keyone (Mercury) Full Specs, Price in Nigeria & India

Blackberry Keyone also known as Blackberry Mercury is the first big phone to be announced at the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC). The phone will be unveiled this night in Barcelona by TCL and blackberry. Barcelona. The KeyOne is the final version of the device we knew as “Mercury” that went live at CES last month, and it’s by far the most interesting and enticing BlackBerry phone since TCL started licensing the name. Recall that TCL is a Chinese company that now collaborate with blackberry for phone making.

The phone runs Android 7 Nougat version. This is not a surprise as blackberry has discontinued making of phones that run Blackberry OS. The 4.5 inches phone has 3GB RAM along with 32GB internal storage and is powered by Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625 processor. Here is the full specifications of the phone.

BLACKBERRY KEYONE SPECIFICATIONS

✔️ TECHNOLOGY
NETWORKS: GSM / HSPA / LTE
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100
4G bands LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 13(700), 17(700), 20(800), 28(700), 38(2600), 40(2300) - EMEA
LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 12(700), 13(700), 20(800), 25(1900), 26(850), 28(700), 29(700), 30(2300), 41(2500) - US v2
LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 13(700), 17(700), 19(800), 20(800), 28(700), 29(700), 30(2300), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) - Canada, LATAM, APAC, US v1
Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A Cat9 450/50 Mbps
GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes

✔️ DESIGN
Dimensions 149.1 x 72.4 x 9.4 mm (5.87 x 2.85 x 0.37 in)
Weight -
Keyboard QWERTY
SIM Nano-SIM
Capacitive touch 4-row BlackBerry keyboard

✔️ COLORS
Black

✔️ DISPLAY
Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 4.5 inches (~55.6% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1080 x 1620 pixels (~434 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4

✔️ PLATFORM
OS Android OS, v7.1 (Nougat)

✔️ PROCESSOR
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625
CPU Octa-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Adreno 506

✔️ MEMORY
Card slot microSD, up to 256 GB
Internal 32 GB, 3 GB RAM
CAMERA
Primary 12 MP, f/2.0, phase detection autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash
Features 1/2.3'' sensor size, 1.55µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama
Video 1080p@30fps
Secondary 8 MP, 1.12 µm pixel size, 1080p

✔️ MULTIMEDIA
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers
3.5mm jack Yes
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

✔️ CONNECTIVITY
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, LE, EDR
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
NFC Yes
Radio FM radio
USB Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go

✔️ SENSORS
Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass

✔️ FEATURES
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM, BBM
Browser HTML5
Java No
Fast battery charging: 50% in 36 min (Quick Charge 3.0)
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player
- DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.265 player
- Photo/video editor
- Document viewer

✔️ BATTERY
Non-removable Li-Ion 3505 mAh battery

✔️ STATUS
Announced 2017, February
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2017, April

✔️ PRICE
Launch price: $549
Price in India: Rs. 36,584
Price in Nigeria: NGN 172,000

Note that the price above might change with time.