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BlackBerry Key2 LE – Camera You don’t buy a BlackBerry if a decent camera is one of your smartphone priorities. That fact has remained consistent through the brand’s peak years and into its current hybrid form. The BlackBerry Key2 LE was never likely to be the phone that changed that, and it neither exceeds nor falls particularly short of our expectations. It’s a dual-camera affair, with a 13-megapixel f/2.2 main shooter aided by a 5-megapixel f/2.4 assistant.
This humble set-up is capable of capturing some pleasant-looking photos in strong lighting, with generally accurate colours and okay detail. Occasionally, though, the odd peculiar visual artefact will appear, like the curious grainy sky effect shown below. HDR is set to auto by default. While its use is fairly subtle and restrained, however, I found that it frequently failed to dial down very bright areas of the picture. Which is kind of what it’s there for. BlackBerry has also worked in its own portrait mode, which explains the second camera. It’s not the worst implementation I’ve ever seen but I still didn’t feel drawn to use it regularly.
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While the delineation between sharp subject and blurry background was good enough, the bokeh effect seemed rather forced and artificial. Night and low-light shots show plenty of noise, as you might expect but the general tone of such shots was reasonably on point. I found that they managed to capture the feel of the scene reasonably well for a mid-range phone camera, though you’ll need to be smart when framing to incorporate a sufficient light source. Images default to 3:2 here, in keeping with the Key2 LE’s unusual screen, but they can be manually switched to 4:3 or 16:9. The colours and the general tone of this shot are pretty good Sometimes you get the odd weird artefact, like the dappled sky here Indoors shots are quite noisy but fairly balanced Forcing HDR on didn’t reign in the overexposed elements here Another nicely balanced indoors scene The tone of this night shot is pretty good, but the background lights are blown out The shadows are a little murky on this street scene, and the sky’s a little grainy BlackBerry Key2 LE – Battery life The BlackBerry Key2 LE’s 3000mAh battery is considerably smaller than the BlackBerry Key2’s 3500mAh unit but it still manages to last through a full day of usage.
It doesn’t particularly need anything bigger, owing to that low-power Snapdragon 636 CPU and petite 4.5-inch display. But the biggest reason most BlackBerry users will be able to last through a full day with charge to spare is that this isn’t the kind of phone that encourages you to use power-intensive apps. As I’ve hopefully made clear already, this isn’t the device to buy if you’re a media junky or a gamer. So, for the kind of intensive messaging and productivity tasks that you’ll be using the BlackBerry Key2 LE for, that 3000mAh battery proves to be just fine. For the record, though, 15 minutes of constant Guns of Boom gameplay with the screen set to half-brightness sapped 7% of the Key2 LE’s juice.
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That’s roughly the same as your average low to mid-range Android phone, such as the Xiaomi Mi A2. Which is kind of a downer when you consider that these phones are running much larger displays, and often faster processors. Charging is nice and swift, particularly when you opt to engage Boost Mode charging. In doing so, I was able to get from 62% to 81% of a full charge in just 15 minutes. Another 15 minutes carried me up to 93%. Should you buy the BlackBerry Key2 LE? Our description of the full-fat BlackBerry Key2 as “a niche product that will only appeal to BlackBerry die-hards and those who use their phone purely as a messaging and email device” applies equally well to the BlackBerry Key2 LE. Of course, with a launch price of £350 it’s also a significantly more affordable niche device.
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