When BlackBerry announced that they would be stepping away from making their own smartphones, the company also reassured customers that those who loved the company’s phones with a physical QWERTY keyboard had nothing to worry about as there would be more such handsets on its way.
This came in the form of the BlackBerry KEYone that was announced at MWC 2017 last month and for those who are interested, you’ll be pleased to learn that the phone has been approved by the FCC which means that it is now one step closer to being released in the US, since FCC approval is one of the requirements for such devices to be sold stateside.
The FCC filing doesn’t really tell us anything new that we didn’t already know, although as to which carrier will be selling the handset remains to be seen, but we suppose those will be details that should be revealed closer to its launch. As a quick recap for those who missed our MWC coverage, the KEYone is by no means a flagship handset.
At best you could think of it as a very capable mid-ranger which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. We’re talking about a phone with a 4.5-inch Full HD 3:2 display. Under the hood, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chipset can be found with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, support for microSD, a 12MP rear-facing camera, an 8MP front-facing camera, a touch-sensitive QWERTY keyboard and it will come with Android Nougat running the show. No word on pricing but like we said, those details should be revealed in the near future.
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