 This is the BlackBerry Key One. It's the first phone in this new era of BlackBerry to come with what people actually expect from the brand, a physical keyboard. Here's how it works. The keyboard sits below a 4.5 inch screen with a 3 to 2 aspect ratio. It's touch sensitive so you can scroll through web pages and so on without having to touch the screen. And just like classic BlackBerries, you can customize each key with shortcuts for things like apps and contacts. Unlike classic BlackBerries, however, this runs Android 7 Nougat and is a pretty modern smartphone in all the ways you'd expect. It's actually made by TCL, a Chinese company that's licensing the name from BlackBerry. The build quality is very solid with an aluminium frame and textured back panel, and overall the industrial design seems likely to please the kind of professional users it's aimed at. Another aspect of the design centered around productivity is that it's easy to use in one hand, partly because the screen is narrow, partly because you can do a lot with the keyboard itself. And the keyboard also makes Android's multitasking more practical. You could send a text while watching a video at the same time, for example, and you wouldn't need to obscure the screen with a software keyboard. TCL is also targeting professionals with a range of security software and BlackBerry apps like BBM and the BlackBerry Hub, which condenses a bunch of information from emails, calendars and so on into one feed. The BlackBerry Key One will cost you $549 and it's going on sale sometime in the second quarter of this year. Is it enough to make BlackBerry cool again? Maybe not, but it looks like a pretty solid effort, and if you've been holding out for a physical keyboard all the way into 2017, that's probably enough to make you happy.
 This is the BlackBerry Key One. It's the first phone in this new era of BlackBerry to come
 with what people actually expect from the brand, a physical keyboard. Here's how it
 works. The keyboard sits below a 4.5 inch screen with a 3 to 2 aspect ratio. It's touch
 sensitive so you can scroll through web pages and so on without having to touch the screen.
 And just like classic BlackBerries, you can customize each key with shortcuts for things
 like apps and contacts. Unlike classic BlackBerries, however, this runs Android 7 Nougat and is
 a pretty modern smartphone in all the ways you'd expect. It's actually made by TCL, a
 Chinese company that's licensing the name from BlackBerry. The build quality is very
 solid with an aluminium frame and textured back panel, and overall the industrial design
 seems likely to please the kind of professional users it's aimed at. Another aspect of the
 design centered around productivity is that it's easy to use in one hand, partly because
 the screen is narrow, partly because you can do a lot with the keyboard itself. And the
 keyboard also makes Android's multitasking more practical. You could send a text while
 watching a video at the same time, for example, and you wouldn't need to obscure the screen
 with a software keyboard. TCL is also targeting professionals with a range of security software
 and BlackBerry apps like BBM and the BlackBerry Hub, which condenses a bunch of information
 from emails, calendars and so on into one feed. The BlackBerry Key One will cost you
 $549 and it's going on sale sometime in the second quarter of this year. Is it enough
 to make BlackBerry cool again? Maybe not, but it looks like a pretty solid effort, and
 if you've been holding out for a physical keyboard all the way into 2017, that's probably
 enough to make you happy.