The BlackBerry KeyOne is to arrive for purchase in the US and Canada beginning next month - in May. 

This is uncovered by a public statement from TCL, the gadget's maker. The KEYone is the first TCL-made BlackBerry smartphone to accompany a physical keyboard, which was the highlight of BlackBerry smartphones throughout the years. 

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It will be accessible in Canada first, with preorders beginning on the eighteenth of May. Canadian users will have the capacity to buy the phone from Bell, Bell MTS, SaskTel, Rogers, and TELUS Business at $199 with a two-year contract. It will be accessible in the US beginning on the 31st of May at $549. The model will work with both GSM and CDMA systems, and TCL states that Sprint will offer the gadget this coming summer. 

Notwithstanding U.S., BlackBerry has likewise affirmed Canadian accessibility. The KeyOne will be accessible for pre-order in Canada somewhat prior on May 18. It will be accessible from Bell, Bell MTS, Rogers, SaskTel and TELUS Business beginning at $199 CAD for a two-year term. 

The KEYone is the most recent BlackBerry Android phone under TCL Communication. The BlackBerry KEYone is running Android 7.1 on a size of 4.5-inch 1620×1080 display and controlled by an octa-core Snapdragon 625 processor combined with 3GB of RAM. It additionally dons a 12-megapixel camera with Sony IMX378 sensor, like the one found on the Google's Pixel phones, and an 8-megapixel front snapper for selfies. It also includes a 32GB of storage, a microSD space, and in the engine is 3505mAh battery to keep it going. 

The KEYone's physical keyboard includes a full QWERTY underneath its display that also has support for shortcuts, such as pressing "B" to launch the program, and likewise the keyboard can be used as a trackpad. Moreover, there's a fingerprint sensor incorporated in the space bar.