Does the Black edition Keyone have better phone reception?
Hi, after many years and many different brands of mobile phones I decided to buy a Blackberry, due mainly to a physical keyboard. My first Blackberry was a Passport, which turned out to be an awesome phone.
I live and work in regional Australia and often have serious issues with getting cell reception. It is something that most Australians that live in regional areas have learnt to deal with.
I did as much research as i could before buying my first Blackberry which was when i discovered Crackberry! The Passport had not been released when I started researching so I had to wait several months before it became available. The Passport was everything I hoped it would be as far as useability and reliability and the physical keyboard was exactly what I hoped it would be. The real bonus with the Passport was that the cell reception was exceptional. I had far superior phone reception than anyone else I knew. I was always able to make calls when everyone else around me had zero reception. I regularly make a 200 kilometer trip through regional Australia and I became used to the fact that I could talk on my phone the whole way! The best thing was that as long as the Passport had some sort of signal reception then I could make or receive a call and call quality was perfect. Unfortunately as most people have discovered, although the Blackberry operating system was awesome, there wasn't the support for App's that the ios and android users enjoy. So when I learned that Blackberry were coming out with an android version I was keen to jump on board. I resisted buying a Priv and eagerly awaited the release of the Keyone. Having purchased a Keyone as soon as it became available in Australia, I was at first delighted with all the things that I could now do on my Keyone that I couldn't do on my Passport. But that initial pleasure turned to extreme disappointment due entirely to the pathetic mobile signal reception. I genuinely love everything about my Keyone except the one thing that it is supposed to be and that is a phone first and foremost.
Being a businessman and commercial pilot in regional Australia I need to have a reliable mobile phone. So before I throw my Keyone in the garbage can anyone with any genuine knowledge tell me if the Keyone Black edition has fixed the cell reception issues or should I abandon Blackberry and reluctantly start my search for a new phone provider? Cheers Jim