hello and welcome to part two of my Blackberry ey switched I'm slick and
this part two will be a continuation of last time where it's just more of a
general use case of the phone I realized after reading some basic tips on
Blackberry 10 that if you hold the camera button down here for long enough
it'll open the camera app one thing that I noticed that I thought should be
implemented and wasn't implemented is the notifications along this left side
which look very similar to the camera button um if you hold them nothing
happens and if you just keep kind of doing it the Blackberry will eventually tell you
to just swipe up to unlock your phone it would be nice if like the camera app if
I held one of my notifications it would open the app that corresponds with that
notification this is something I didn't notice right away but for a different reason um this is not my Sim in this
phone this phone is given to us by Belle so it's a different phone number and
everything so I was avoiding calling people and texting because I didn't have
contacts in my phone or so I thought when I linked Gmail with my phone it
grabbed all my contacts with Gmail um almost without me noticing which was
great I'm not saying anything bad about that and perfectly listed all of them
had all their information like it was great I guess that's more on Gmail side but it was still great on BlackBerry so
since then I've used the phone's uh calling and texting features much more
and there's nothing really to note um
this is more on Belle side instead of blackberry I haven't had any service
issues anywhere that I've been um and
everything else has been fine as a general observation about the Blackberry
experience now this is not the heavy use experience that will be next episode and
the next and the episode after that um I
finally I spend less time on my phone um
but not because I don't necessarily enjoy the phone it's more
because I come on my phone I go to HUB I
check everything I need to and then I just feel like I'm done on Android I
would find that as I'm going through apps and going individually to each app
that I want to see and going through all my information checking everything I
would spend more time on this I get
everything I need to and I get out so it I guess it kind of depends on what you
want do you want to spend that much time on your phone some people do I'm not
actually sure at this point I I like the experience of my Android phone where I
can jump on and each individual app is
there and all that kind of stuff which you can also do on BlackBerry but the
awesomeness of the Hub is that everything that you need to know every
direct notification that you have is always there so you can just quickly go
through all the important things and then just be done with your phone which is also kind of relaxing I used the
music player a bit and it was fine nothing really interesting to note but
one thing that I did notice is that the phone has I believe it's 16 16 different
volume levels so as you're going through the volume rocker there's 16 stops which
is kind of awesome actually my S3 has 7
I believe yeah my S3 has 7 so you wouldn't think that's that big of
a deal but for fine Precision if you want it to be very quiet but it's maybe
a quiet video so you need some things to be audible or if you want it to just be
super loud but not quite as loud It's actually kind of nice to have that many
stops in the volume knob we talked about this last time a little bit but one thing that I really don't like
personally about the Blackberry experience so far is the rotate um it
goes really slow as you can probably see there I got comments saying that that
might be by Design but if it is by Design it's not a design that I
personally like some people might like it I don't you have to wait a while I
like snappier Auto rotates also it works
well in some apps it doesn't work that great in other apps and in your recently
used app section it will save if it was rotated or not so it just becomes a
hassle in my opinion so I usually just go into the drop down at the top and put
rotation lock on so it won't rotate but then if I restart the phone in any way
it resets that setting so I'll reset the phone or it'll die and I'll charge it
back up or something turn it back on and then turn my phone and it'll rotate and
it's just really annoying one thing I don't like is when using stuff like the
Hub if you send an email or something it always attaches a this was sent from I
think it was this was sent from my Blackberry 10
smartphone uh a lot of different things have done this in the past but I really
don't like it I go through and manually delete it every single time so I guess
it's not that big of a deal but I I really don't like that so BBM is cool
being able to see if your messages are read are cool um everything that comes
with BBM is cool but the fact that I only know two people that have
blackberries makes it not very cool because there's not very many people
that I can actually do it with um but that being said I think a day or
two ago Blackberry announced that they're going to be releasing BBM apps
for Android and iOS so that might make
black BlackBerry message are cool again I don't know I just don't have that use
case yet hopefully it gets released soon they said sometime this summer so far
far now keep in mind this is being said from a very basic use point the next two
videos will be more advanced I'm going to sideload Android apps I'm going to do a whole bunch of other stuff
um I currently would not really recommend this phone to someone now
again this is I have not used Android sideloaded apps I'm completely ignoring
that whole part of blackberry just the stock use case I would not necessarily
recommend this to someone who enjoys
spending a crazy amount of time on their phone not that it's bad for them
but I feel like the best use case for this phone is someone who wants to be
able to jump on their phone and instantly check all their notifications
and then be done because it excels so much at that I would recommend it to
people that have that use case scenario people that are very busy uh people that are into business and need to be able to
check things really quickly and then get back to a meeting or whatever they're doing that's awesome um but the comfy
fluffy experience that is Android and iOS or not iOS so much cuz I don't know
iOS but at least Android um it's not the
same the browser seems all fine and good I haven't done actually speed test
benchmarks on it or anything but it seems not too slow but also not exactly
that fast although I do like it how it manages tabs so in the bottom left hand
corner there's a little button that says exactly how many tabs you have open Bop
that over it comes over from the left and then you can quick one big thing
with tabs that I like is being able to quickly close them so if you bop it over
from here you can just press the little X and quickly close your tabs so far I
really like the typing experience on BlackBerry the autoc correct of swiping
up from a letter to go with the next word that corresponds with that letter
is nice once you get used to it at the beginning it's kind of weird because you
have to go slow so that you can kind of get used to when it's going to pop up
but then when you get used to how it acts it can be quite quick especially if
you're typing with one finger personally I have very large thumbs so I cover up a
lot of the keyboard while I'm typing so if I'm typing with two fingers I can't
really see the word that's going to pop up above the letter
so sometimes it doesn't work that great but if I'm typing with one finger it's
awesome makes me go way faster way way faster sometimes one big complaint
though is if I want to type a word that it doesn't like say awesome sauce but
with no space if I want that to actually go through so I don't want a space in
between the words awesome and sauce I have to swipe up from the space bar
because the space bar is going to automatically try and correct simple mistakes like no space between awesome
and sauce so if I press space bar it goes awesome space sauce if I swipe up
it goes awesome sauce one word but swiping up from the space bar with a
very large thumb will very often close my texting app because of how Blackberry
acts swiping up from the bottom closes your app now it's not supposed to
because in theory you're just swiping up from the space bar but my thumb is huge
I don't like I have large hands so often
no matter how hard I try I'm swiping the whole app away so sometimes even if I'm
typing with my thumbs I have to reconfigure how I'm holding the phone
and swipe up from the space bar using my pointer finger so I can actually do it
accurately this might not be a problem for everyone but it's really annoying
for me one thing with Blackberry that caught me off guard was the story maker
app it's the only time that I felt Blackberry actually stepped outside of their element the whole time you're
using the phone it feels very professional very clean cut and then you
step into the story maker app and you just pick a whole bunch of random photos
pick a song and it makes us a fairly nicely animated slideshow with for you
with fairly professional looking intro and outros um then I got to thinking and
realized that it's fairly professional looking it's not super flashy it's
fairly professional looking so um my
theory behind this is that you're running late for a meeting and you need a slideshow so you can just make a
little slideshow on there so that basically concludes the ending of my
standard use case scenario for this phone next week I will be doing a lot of
side loading Android apps and very recently as some of you have told me and
I found out myself Skype actually finally released their official release
of their Skype app it's no longer in beta so I'll be trying that as well um
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