BlackBerry KEY2 LE leaked Specifications :Physical Qwerty Keyboard Make It Different

BlackBerry is preparing a new, more inexpensive version of its KEY2 smartphone, for those who want a physical keyboard but are turned off by the premium price tag. Expected to launch as the BlackBerry KEY2 LE, the new device is yet to be officially exposed, but details are previously leaking.

Ever since TCL learned and rebooted the BlackBerry brand, we’ve seen many attempts to get the QWERTY-blessed smartphones into users’ hands. What has remained missing so far, though, has been the equal of the old BlackBerry Curve – a more inexpensive, midrange phone. While the KEY2 and the KEY One before it was priced for the top end of the market, there are sufficient of potential customers who might poverty to return to physical keyboards but don’t want to employ flagship-level cash.

The BlackBerry KEY2 LE may fill that niche. Leaked to Android Police, it firewood with a physical keyboard and the 4.5-inch 1080 x 1620 touchscreen, but slims the other stipulations in order to hit a lower price.

So, it’s believed to have a Snapdragon 635 mainframe and 4 GB of memory, as opposed to the Snapdragon 660 and 6 GB you’ll find in the $649.99 KEY2. While there’ll be a 64 GB storing option, as per the KEY2, the KEY2 LE is also predictable to offer a cheaper 32 GB configuration. The battery, too, is lesser, dropping 500 mAh to 3,000 mAh.

As for the cameras, while there’s still supposed to be a dual camera system on the rear, they won’t be twin 12-megapixel sensors. Instead, the rumor advises a 13-megapixel and 5-megapixel combination. That possible means no optical zoom, as the KEY2 gets, but instead, the second sensor being used for depth purposes.

Finally, it’s believed to be a very somewhat smaller device, though only by mere millimeters. The keyboard is more similar to that of the KEY One from last year, and may failure out on the optical trackpad functionality.

All that might be a satisfactory compromise, if the price is right. That’s still unknown at this phase, and one of the lingering censures of both the KEY2 and the KEY One is that it’s over-pricing its devices. If the BlackBerry KEY2 LE can come in meaningfully underneath the KEY2, however, that might open up a whole new market that needs to do more than just evoke about the days of physical QWERTY Keyboard.