There's currently a $10K bounty to crack BlackBerry's Android protections so you can root the phone. It's been ~3 years and no one's managed it yet... Fortunat

There's currently a $10K bounty to crack BlackBerry's Android protections so you can root the phone. It's been ~3 years and no one's managed it yet... Fortunately, there's minimal Google presence on the phone. The native BlackBerry apps have worked great. The camera on the KeyOne even has fully manual controls--focus distance and everything.