Are Blackberry Keyboards ACTUALLY Faster?



Before my Blackberry KEY2 review, here are my thoughts on the new physical keyboard.
BB KEY2 – https://amzn.to/2KnljuO

The KEY2 looks to be a nice upgrade from the Blackbery KEYone with improved ergonomics, a Snapdragon 660, speedkey shortcuts and Android Oreo 8.1. It’s the best smartphone blackberry has made!

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  1. Dave2D

    The new Speed key is cool but I don't think physical keyboards are for me. The space they take up isn't worth the benefits I personally get from them. Are any of you guys blackberry / physical keyboard users still?

  2. R Virgo

    Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP has commenced a class action against BlackBerry Limited (“BlackBerry”) on behalf of a group of BlackBerry’s employees working in Ontario and across Canada.

    Update. June 12th, 2019

    BlackBerry is seeking leave to appeal the decision of Justice Charbonneau dated May 27th, 2019 certifying our action as proper to proceed as a class action.

    No date has as yet been fixed for the hearing of the BlackBerry motion. We will provide an update once further details are available.

    Update. May 30th, 2019

    The Ontario Superior Court certified a class proceeding against BlackBerry.

    The Ontario Superior Court of Justice certified a class proceeding against BlackBerry Ltd. Impacted BlackBerry employees allege the company terminated their employment when BlackBerry allowed its business partner, the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, to offer them new employment without providing any clear offer of continued employment with BlackBerry. With no clear offer of employment from BlackBerry, the impacted employees accepted employment with Ford, without receiving severance from BlackBerry and with no recognition of their seniority from Ford.

    The Representative Plaintiff, David Parker, was one of the BlackBerry employees who agreed to employment with Ford after BlackBerry would not provide him with any certainty about his future employment with BlackBerry. He started this Action in 2017 on behalf of the impacted employees with Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP as Class Counsel.

    In a decision this week, Justice Michel Charbonneau concluded that Parker’s application satisfies the criteria for a class proceeding, as outlined in the Class Proceedings Act. Justice Charbonneau certified the class proceeding on behalf of:

    All persons in Canada who were employees and/or dependant contractors of BlackBerry Limited (“BlackBerry”), who worked for BlackBerry in Canada and who were offered and accepted employment with the Ford Motor Company of Canada (“Ford”) between January 1, 2017 and April 30, 2017, while excluding BlackBerry employees who filed a complaint pursuant to section 96 of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 seeking termination pay and/or severance pay and did not withdraw that complaint within two weeks.

    Parker is named as the representative plaintiff on behalf of these employees. Most of the 300 affected employees are based in Waterloo and Ottawa, Ontario with the rest scattered throughout Ontario and Nova Scotia.

    BlackBerry employees interested in more information about the class action should contact our team by reaching out to Leigh Norton: leigh.norton@nelliganlaw.ca and (613) 231-8216. We also encourage them to provide their contact information through the BlackBerry Class Action contact form at the bottom of this page to receive updates about this case.

    We will provide further information for impacted employees once that becomes available.

  3. R Virgo

    Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP has commenced a class action against BlackBerry Limited (“BlackBerry”) on behalf of a group of BlackBerry’s employees working in Ontario and across Canada.

    Update. June 12th, 2019

    BlackBerry is seeking leave to appeal the decision of Justice Charbonneau dated May 27th, 2019 certifying our action as proper to proceed as a class action.

    No date has as yet been fixed for the hearing of the BlackBerry motion. We will provide an update once further details are available.

    Update. May 30th, 2019

    The Ontario Superior Court certified a class proceeding against BlackBerry.

    The Ontario Superior Court of Justice certified a class proceeding against BlackBerry Ltd. Impacted BlackBerry employees allege the company terminated their employment when BlackBerry allowed its business partner, the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, to offer them new employment without providing any clear offer of continued employment with BlackBerry. With no clear offer of employment from BlackBerry, the impacted employees accepted employment with Ford, without receiving severance from BlackBerry and with no recognition of their seniority from Ford.

    The Representative Plaintiff, David Parker, was one of the BlackBerry employees who agreed to employment with Ford after BlackBerry would not provide him with any certainty about his future employment with BlackBerry. He started this Action in 2017 on behalf of the impacted employees with Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP as Class Counsel.

    In a decision this week, Justice Michel Charbonneau concluded that Parker’s application satisfies the criteria for a class proceeding, as outlined in the Class Proceedings Act. Justice Charbonneau certified the class proceeding on behalf of:

    All persons in Canada who were employees and/or dependant contractors of BlackBerry Limited (“BlackBerry”), who worked for BlackBerry in Canada and who were offered and accepted employment with the Ford Motor Company of Canada (“Ford”) between January 1, 2017 and April 30, 2017, while excluding BlackBerry employees who filed a complaint pursuant to section 96 of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 seeking termination pay and/or severance pay and did not withdraw that complaint within two weeks.

    Parker is named as the representative plaintiff on behalf of these employees. Most of the 300 affected employees are based in Waterloo and Ottawa, Ontario with the rest scattered throughout Ontario and Nova Scotia.

    BlackBerry employees interested in more information about the class action should contact our team by reaching out to Leigh Norton: leigh.norton@nelliganlaw.ca and (613) 231-8216. We also encourage them to provide their contact information through the BlackBerry Class Action contact form at the bottom of this page to receive updates about this case.

    We will provide further information for impacted employees once that becomes available.

  4. R Virgo

    Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP has commenced a class action against BlackBerry Limited (“BlackBerry”) on behalf of a group of BlackBerry’s employees working in Ontario and across Canada.

    Update. June 12th, 2019

    BlackBerry is seeking leave to appeal the decision of Justice Charbonneau dated May 27th, 2019 certifying our action as proper to proceed as a class action.

    No date has as yet been fixed for the hearing of the BlackBerry motion. We will provide an update once further details are available.

    Update. May 30th, 2019

    The Ontario Superior Court certified a class proceeding against BlackBerry.

    The Ontario Superior Court of Justice certified a class proceeding against BlackBerry Ltd. Impacted BlackBerry employees allege the company terminated their employment when BlackBerry allowed its business partner, the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, to offer them new employment without providing any clear offer of continued employment with BlackBerry. With no clear offer of employment from BlackBerry, the impacted employees accepted employment with Ford, without receiving severance from BlackBerry and with no recognition of their seniority from Ford.

    The Representative Plaintiff, David Parker, was one of the BlackBerry employees who agreed to employment with Ford after BlackBerry would not provide him with any certainty about his future employment with BlackBerry. He started this Action in 2017 on behalf of the impacted employees with Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP as Class Counsel.

    In a decision this week, Justice Michel Charbonneau concluded that Parker’s application satisfies the criteria for a class proceeding, as outlined in the Class Proceedings Act. Justice Charbonneau certified the class proceeding on behalf of:

    All persons in Canada who were employees and/or dependant contractors of BlackBerry Limited (“BlackBerry”), who worked for BlackBerry in Canada and who were offered and accepted employment with the Ford Motor Company of Canada (“Ford”) between January 1, 2017 and April 30, 2017, while excluding BlackBerry employees who filed a complaint pursuant to section 96 of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 seeking termination pay and/or severance pay and did not withdraw that complaint within two weeks.

    Parker is named as the representative plaintiff on behalf of these employees. Most of the 300 affected employees are based in Waterloo and Ottawa, Ontario with the rest scattered throughout Ontario and Nova Scotia.

    BlackBerry employees interested in more information about the class action should contact our team by reaching out to Leigh Norton: leigh.norton@nelliganlaw.ca and (613) 231-8216. We also encourage them to provide their contact information through the BlackBerry Class Action contact form at the bottom of this page to receive updates about this case.

    We will provide further information for impacted employees once that becomes available.

  5. Aditya Sundar

    The answer to the question is a blackberry keyboard ACTUALLY faster in one word is a YES. On a plane observation it would look as if the virtual keyboard is faster but once you factor in the time for correcting spelling errors, the PKB of a BB is faster. It took me around a month form me to type at a decent speed after I shifted from a glass keyboard to the Key2 and ever since then, if there is a document/mail smaller than 2 pages, I type them on my phone.

  6. JKOtv

    I have to say swiping kills it for me. That is just a bang on feature of the Gboard and in general, there is so much to like about the Gboard.

  7. FunkDoobie

    You missed a big trick, the swipe up predicted words and the way it learns words to suggest I've not had that on any other keyboard yet….. Unless someone wants to point me in the direction (android) 😎

  8. Aditya Sundar

    Been using this for almost a year and I have to say this folks. Since I have got this phone, I have got only 2-3 typos and that was because I did not click the button hard enough. This is absolutely insane! And I have improved my speed and now type faster than I have ever typed on a glass slab. This phone is the best, if communication and security is your priority. I'm really loving this phone and I don't think I'll ever go back to typing on glass again

  9. Matthew Lemmers

    I don't think that they are necessarily better or anything, but there is definitely something to be said about having the physical feedback. I personally loved the old HP Palm Pre I had and the keyboard was one of the better things for me about the phone.

  10. Skoltastic

    Such a lame video! You should have had a BlackBerry user like me challenge you to a type-off… I would destroy ANYONE using a touch screen. I love my BlackBerry so much. The problem is going back IS hard. So very few people will invest the time to do so and BlackBerry has the worst marketing ever. Sigh.

  11. Mikey Lejan

    It looks made for the elite and the quality is premium.

  12. Cayotic_Prophet

    The keyboard shortcuts (26×2) make for jumping in to apps more efficiently. Also, I guarantee that there would be less traffic fatalities if people were typing with keyboards they didn't have to look at. But of course 'they' won't release these statistics about which phones were commonly being used during traffic accidents that resulted in a fatality. If they did, people might consider a safer alternative.

  13. Vincent Putera

    Typing w/ BlackBerry isn't for speed, but it is for accuracy and comfort.

  14. samiul gamer

    Imagine how hard it would be to play games in that thing

  15. santhoshferrari

    More than being fast, it is the feel you get when typing on it. I personally like it.

  16. Ed Henkel

    you can test this while in public transportation or just walking.
    Btw you will loose big time 🙂

  17. Colourberry

    I'm really surprised how bad this is. You really thought using it for an hour or two is enough to create the muscle memory that makes the physical keyboard valuable??

    Or you just thought it was an easy idea to pop out a video?

    So with just an hour or two adjustment time on the new keyboard you were already up to the same speed as a touch screen but the touch screen keyboard you made 10 mistakes compared to just 2 on the physical keyboard. I'm counting the 3 missing spaces as mistakes too as well as the 6 misspelt words.

    At only an hour or so with those results I'd call that a win for the BB.

  18. prodigalretrod

    *jumpS over the lazy dog (otherwise you never get to hit the s key).

  19. Carrion

    It never was about speed, it was about accuracy feeling and feedback. Also their virtual keyboard was the best around. Videos like these are the last nail on the coffin for my beloved blackberry… How can you even think than pressing a button is faster than a touchscreen touch ? This is stupid.

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