Why Does BlackBerry Exist in 2017? #Helpful Post

hey guys often it is 2017 and

blackberries to exist but why at what

point black berry was pretty much

synonymous with the word smartphone

however over the last few years they

made some questionable decision first up

we have the blackberry Passport now this

is very much sort of the last hurrah of

the BlackBerry 10 devices as it was

still completely manufactured by

blackberry ran their software and had a

very much blackberry keyboard so this

guy was released back in 2014 however

it's just a little bit different than

the old BlackBerry's back in the day as

a size comparison this is what the

passport looks like compared to a galaxy

s7 well it's not that much taller it is

so wide like this is that's a crazy

crazy phone in the hand I go say the

weight is unique there's definitely no

other phone out there with such a big

display and an actual physical keyboard

so it's rocking a 4.5 inch 1440 by X

1440 display it might be a little bit

weird to have a modern smartphone with a

square screen but in this case it

actually does kind of make sense as

having that keyboard on the bottom is

sort of a blackberry trademark by Kesha

it might be a blackberry trademark an

actual micro trademark something kind of

cool about the passport is that the

keyboard is actually a touch pad so for

example I can use it to scroll up and

down on this or maybe swipe left or

right depending on what it is and of

course it has a touchscreen so that kind

of negates a lot of usefulness of a

touch pad but it is a sort of useful

feature to have

I liked how before you even let you get

into the phone you have to read about

blackberry and how there a global leader

in mobile communication sure guys

alright so we are up and running with

the blackberry Passport

even though this phone is a couple years

old at this point it actually has pretty

reasonable specs so inside it has not

Dragon 801 processor paired with three

gigabytes of RAM and it also has a

pretty monstrously sized 30 450 million

power battery putting a lot of phones

even from 2017 to shame well it coats

the bb10 it's actually not that bad so

some things that I like about it is just

how easy it is to multitask everything

is very nice and smooth pretty

responsible especially considering this

is a few year old phone and when it

comes to apps there are some so for

example if you open up you cube app it's

just a web app which is the same for a

fair few of these but to be fair stuff

like the Twitter app actually we're

reasonably well and you also do have

some support for Android app this is

done through the Amazon App Store the

way it works is there's a virtual

version of Android running on top of VB

10 so if I jump into something like

Spotify it works pretty much as you

would expect some apps don't really take

too kindly to the square screen and

generally speaking performance isn't

great but it does work now beyond that

you can't have some issues so for

example a game like cross your robe just

completely fails to do anything for me

but considering that this is an older

phone it's running sort of a clergy put

together gross version of Android the

app support is not terrible honestly

there's a lot I really do like about

this passport if it was running an

up-to-date version of Android I actually

don't give this a shot next up we have

the blackberry print now this is an

interesting phone for one big reason it

was the first BlackBerry to ship with

Android instead of vbos

take a look at the box and you'll see

they promise privilege and privacy that

is quite the statement to put on your

phone crack this one open and you'll see

a blackberry that looks a little bit

different so at first glance it looks

like a traditional smartphone however if

you roll it up roll it up it actually

does have a full keyboard while the

passport is a really wide phone the

print is incredibly tall of course once

you slide the keyboard down it's not

that much bigger than an average phone

and do you fear the hardware here is

pretty nice it does feel a little bit

plasticky even with the fake

carbon-fiber on the back but it feels

pretty reasonable in the hand it's less

you're consuming that you do have that

physical keyboard I think why Barry did

a pretty good job of engineering it into

the probe so the mechanism feels pretty

solid if you open it up you can feel

just a little bit of flex in the chassis

but it's not too bad but of course

you're getting a very standard

smartphone not even considering that

there is a full keyboard inside the

physical keyboard is decent I don't

think it really quite matches up some of

the earlier blackberries like the bold I

think it just is a little bit mushy err

than I'd like but again I've been on

software keyboards for years so this is

something that's a really big deal to

you I think the Priven might make some

sense but honestly I would probably use

it with keyboard down all the time so

then it really jumps out to me is the

display not only is it 1440p but it's

also OLED and it really shows the colors

are nice the blacks are dark honestly I

really do like the hardware

this phone the proof was the first like

very Android phone but it is most

certainly not the last that's where the

D tech 50 comes in

so this while it has the BlackBerry name

on it is very much not a true blackberry

well this was launched less than a year

ago what you're really getting here is a

little more than a rebadged Alcatel idol

4 so now I did not have a way of getting

out of the box so gone or most of the

traditional sort of blackberry things

like BlackBerry OS is this guy runs

Android as well as a physical keyboard

it very much is exactly what it looks

like a fairly generic 300 dollar

smartphone so here we're getting fairly

close to stock Android there are of

course some BlackBerry apps including

bbm which of course is already available

on Android and iOS anyway right now as

well as DTEC so this is all about

security so in theory this is going to

allow you to amplify the security of a

traditional Android device and it kind

of works so you can see here they'll

give me some sort of warnings as far as

in you set up a screen lock or Tron data

encryption it also reminds me that I am

using a BlackBerry device and therefore

device hardware is a-ok I guess but

generally speaking this is not really

anything that special compared to other

devices specifically Samsung which also

has a very similar style of software so

all these phones aren't running Android

7 just yet they are at least fully up to

date so if you check the Android

security patch it's for March 5th which

is just a couple weeks ago from when I'm

recording this video and that's nice to

see especially since the prep is coming

up on two years old of course it would

be nice to have a newer version of

Android to go along with it

but at the very least they are keeping

these up to date and since it's a fairly

soft version of Android hopefully those

updates will continue for a little while

so well I don't really recommend these

phones there's nothing necessarily wrong

with blackberry sure they're nowhere

near as big as they used to be but these

days they're making decent Android

phones with solid hardware and some

legitimately cool features such as a

physical keyboard it might not be for

everyone but I do believe there's a

place for blackberry 2017 so would you

guys buy a blackberry let me know in the

comments below and I will catch you in

the next one