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TCL who bought the rights to manufacture phones under the BlackBerry name

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recently announced that they are killing their BlackBerry lineup and they're not

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going to do it anymore so what better way to celebrate then to check out what

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I would say is sort of a spiritual successor this is the FX Tech Pro One

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and the model number is the QX 1000 this

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is yes my friends a slider phone with a

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physical keyboard now I have not so much

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as had this out of the packaging so we're gonna be experiencing it together

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they've got all these supported bands listed on the back of the box here this

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is the 128 gig ROM 16 gig RAM model

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first up we've got a whatever this is

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kind of reminds me of those horrible belt holsters that people used to have

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for their phones except it doesn't go on your belt it's just like a sleeve got

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one of those handy-dandy modular wall warts I've clearly lost my touch here I

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swear I know how to do an unboxing you know what just forget it

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okay all right we've got a USB a two

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type-c cable oh that's cute the wall

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board has that razor green plastic insert you know much razor claim they

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paid to make that exclusive to their laptops apparently not enough and now

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the phone itself immediate impressions I

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want to say dr. Jekyll mr. Hyde from the

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front it actually looks and feels very

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modern it's got the 2d glass so it's curved on the left and right edges feels

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actually surprisingly premium and then

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the back I don't know what it is but

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some manufacturers managed to make their phones out of cheap plastic and have it

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feel premium while others managed to make their phones out of solid metal and

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have that feel kind of cheap so whether it's just how smooth it is like the

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kind of a lack of texture to it or whatever else it is the back definitely

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doesn't feel as nice as the front look at this difference in thickness guys

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you're basically clipping a keyboard to

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your phone which if you use it often enough there might be something to be

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said for that all right it defaults to

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English UK you know what I like the Queen's English as much as the next

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Canadian got a fingerprint reader let's find out where it is apparently it's on

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the right hand side of the father oh that's oh that's kind of an odd spot for

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a fingerprint you know I don't actually mind it though so it's right under the

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lock button one thing I don't like about having the fingerprint reader on the

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side is that sometimes if you want to unlock with your left hand it can be kind of a pain in the butt but I think I

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could get around that with this one if I just go okay well my lock buttons my

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index and then my middle finger is gonna be my fingerprint reader a they've

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actually opted for Google's latest gesture based control schema also known

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as the iPhone control schema now this is

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the thing I was saying was nasty before do you hear that sound dude and I don't

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even have to hit it hard I bet I could turn off the haptic feedback and I'd

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still have that issue or something oh

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lordy what does that button do oh cool

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it's got a dedicated shutter button I'm gonna take a couple pictures here oh wow

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that is horrible daddy's got two chins

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you know no no no no Andy it's fine you're good you're good it's just this

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picture it's it's this picture this you

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know does this does this camera make me look fat you know like it's this camera

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makes you look fat it's not I'm back in myself back in myself into a corner here

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it's been a while since I've seen image processing this bad oh so I thought it

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was more of a slider but it's actually

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more of like like a flip up as that

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hinge feels great but shockingly solid

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like listen to the sound of it

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okay if I hold the bass steady because

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like you know obviously it's still a phone like that's pretty good

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I'm impressed theoretically having

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tactile buttons is a big advantage because you can feel your way around the

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keyboard but anything you gain from your tactile buttons you lose in having to

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press auxiliary keys like shift or control or you know another layer to

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access your special characters for emojis or whatever else look at this

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it's got little nipples for the F and the J as though you're like intended to

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type on it but even with my little homunculus hands that is a seriously not

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happening kind of situation okay let's

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be more realistic I'm gonna type with my thumbs did I get a double press there I

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think these died for a reason oh man why

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do they have this gigantic taps log

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interestingly the lock button and the fingerprint sensor on the back when

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you're in keyboard mode so they're kind of not that easy to get it alright it's

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still way faster for me to use a

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touchscreen now one argument that I have heard for physical keyboards on phones

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is people who do a lot of remote server administration for example using an app

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like pulse wave but the thing is compared to pressing a secondary

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function button and then trying to find a special character I find particularly

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with some third-party keyboards like the one I use if you change the long press

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delay if you can access your special characters actually much faster cool

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hinge keyboards are still stupid cameras

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terrible maybe I should apply the system update and see if that fixes all the problems

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that I have miraculously most of the things I don't like about it are things

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that are obviously not going to be good on anything other than a tier one

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smartphone things like the camera and it has some redeeming qualities it does

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have a headphone jack which is pretty nice to see it's got stereo speakers

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speaker left speaker right here it's got

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USB type-c for charging which is a lot better than we used to see on these kind

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of Randolph owns in the past and like I

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said before hey this hinge is really nice if you're

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after a physical keyboard I haven't seen anything in the market that exists

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that's better than this and of course you don't have to use it all the time what is this game called typing typing

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defense okay here we go here we go abs bump ow how's my castle dude

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drugged beer what is this game I was

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probably too hard on it before it's not that bad and this is another thing

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that's improved a lot on basic devices over the years on the screen actually

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surprisingly usable I'd say the factory calibration is a

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little bit on the warm side out of the box but other than that it's pretty

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sharp the contrast is pretty good the fact that this is like a pentile display

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you're getting a little bit of like fringing around high contrast areas like

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these white characters on this dark background because it is only 1080p now

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let's get to a couple of the forgot to mention it's got a 32 hundred million

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power battery this is Android Pi and it's basically very very stock looking

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which I like and of course it's got a snapdragon 835 processor wait what

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snapdragon 835 oh yeah and the list

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price right now is somewhere between 650

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and 700 US dollars now if this was a

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feature phone and it was just like okay yeah we've got this gimmick we've got

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this great hinge which really does feel great apparently it's rated for a

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hundred thousand open rooms and close it it feels really nice and we've got this

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physical keyboard and it's like 300 bucks or something like that if you

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really care about that feature you might have my attention but the fact that

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you're running an ancient top-tier chip

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and you're priced at in-between flagship

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killer so something like a poco f1 and something like a true flagship like a

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Galaxy S or Galaxy Note series on this old hardware that's pretty tough pill to

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swallow realistically though if what

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you're after is a physical keyboard on your Android phone you're basically going to buy this

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because you can't really take your business elsewhere and as far as the

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implementations that I've seen go this is definitely not the worst one thing

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they got right about the keyboard layout is the fact that all the essential keys

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are basically there and that's a big advantage over the ones that try to flip

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the keyboard out this way where it's just too cramped to be legitimately

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useful I would have still like to have that gap in the middle to make the typing a bit more comfortable but then

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you would have compromised on having a familiar layout like that so I don't

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think there's really one single right answer to that question my answer is I

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wouldn't switch over to this and I probably wouldn't recommend that you do

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it either but if you know someone who's really yearning for the physical keyboard I was gonna say there are worse

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options out there but there just aren't thanks for watching ShortCircuit today

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on the purl 1 by FX tech guys make sure

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you're subscribed this is where we're gonna be doing all of our fun little casual unboxings of stuff that's like

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super cool and kitschy but just doesn't

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quite justify a full Linus tech tips experience