BlackBerry KEY2

Full Specifications

This device is also known as BlackBerry BBF100-2

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Availability

Officially announced Jun 07, 2018

Design

Dimensions 5.96 x 2.83 x 0.33 inches
151.4 x 71.8 x 8.5 mm
Weight 5.34 oz (151.4 g)
Materials Frame: Aluminum
Biometrics Fingerprint (touch)
Features Notification light, Full keyboard, Touch sensitive control keys
Keys Right: Volume control, Lock/Unlock key, Other
Colors Black, Gray, Red

Display

Size 4.5-inch, 55.41% screen-to-body
Type IPS LCD
Resolution 1620x1080px, 3:2 ratio, 433 PPI
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 3
PhoneArena Display Test
Bright Max (20 APL) Untested
Bright Min 4 (Poor)

Hardware

System chip Snapdragon 660 SDM660 (14 nm)
Processor Octa-core
2200 MHz
Kryo 260
GPU Adreno 512
Memory 6GB (LPDDR4)/128GB
6GB/64GB
Storage expansion microSDXC up to 256 GB
OS Android (8.1 Oreo)
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Battery

Type 3500 mAh, Li - Ion
Charging Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0, USB Power Delivery

Camera

Rear Dual camera
Main camera 12 MP (PDAF, CMOS image sensor)
Aperture size: F1.8
Focal length: 26 mm
Sensor size: 1/2.8"
Pixel size: 1.28 μm
Second camera 12 MP (PDAF, CMOS image sensor)
Optical zoom: 2.0x
Aperture size: F2.6
Sensor size: 1/3.4"
Pixel size: 1 μm
Flash Dual LED
Video recording 4K UHD (30 fps)
HDR, Video calling, Video sharing
Front 8 MP
Video capture: 1080p

Connectivity & Features

Bluetooth 5.0
WLAN b,g,n,ac,dual-band
Wi-Fi Direct, Hotspot
802.11 b, g, n, ac
USB Type-C, USB 3.0
Sensors Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Hall (for flip covers), Ambient light sensor, Proximity sensor
Location GPS, A-GPS, S-GPS, Glonass, Galileo, BeiDou
Other NFC, VoIP, Tethering, Computer sync, OTA sync

Multimedia

Headphones 3.5mm jack
Speakers Earpiece, Loudspeaker
Features Album art cover, Background playback
Screen mirroring Wireless screen share
Radio FM
Additional microphone(s) Noise cancellation

Cellular

4G (FDD) Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 28, 29(700 d), 30(2300 WCS), 66(AWS-3)
4G (TDD) Bands 38, 39, 40, 41
3G Bands 6, 5, 8, 4, 2, 1
Data Speed LTE-A Cat 11 (600/75 Mbit/s), HSDPA+ (4G) 42.2 Mbit/s, HSUPA 5.76 Mbit/s, HSUPA, UMTS
VoLTE Yes
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Alternative variants

for Europe
Differences from the main variant:
4G (FDD) Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 26, 28, 32(1500 L-band)
4G (TDD) Bands 38, 39, 40, 41
Measured SAR Head: 0.72 W/kg
Measured in: 1700 MHz
Body: 1.68 W/kg
Measured in: 900 MHz
Dual SIM
Differences from the main variant:
4G (FDD) Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 26, 28, 32(1500 L-band)
4G (TDD) Bands 38, 39, 40, 41
Dual SIM Yes
Measured SAR Head: 0.72 W/kg
Measured in: 900 MHz
Body: 1.68 W/kg
Measured in: 900 MHz
with 64 GB storage
Differences from the main variant:
Memory 64GB

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