we are all the way in New York I can't
believe I'm here again this is my third trip here this month doing an unboxing
that nobody asked for of a product that
as far as I'm aware nobody asked for this is the BlackBerry motion the latest
in the lineup of BlackBerry smartphones produced under license by TCL so on the
surface this appears to be pretty much I like this table got like a look at that
it's like authoritative BAM so on the surface this thing doesn't
appear to be really much of anything special it's got a Snapdragon what would
what is it a 625 processor it's got four
gigs of RAM let's fire this baby up it's got 32 gigabytes or if you're more of
the French persuasion 32 gig of octets
so you got that going for you Android 7.1 nougats a 5.5 inch full HD display
with a premium nano diamond coated
display you got a sim removal tool and a booklet
see look I don't save myself the trouble of unboxing it they've got a picture
cool you got a quick charger it's got a four thousand milliamp hour battery
which is a first for blackberry and actually pretty unusual in general you
got a Type C charging cable it does of course charge with type C and it's a
little replace why does blackberry still
need to exist in the modern age as a
Canadian I guess there's like kind of a sentimental attachment to the brand that
probably most people wouldn't share but
as it is like even with the sentimentality you still have to find a
way to differentiate yourself so let's have a look at this phone then so on the
back they've got kind of a textured kind of rubberized grip ii thing going on
with of course that iconic blackberry logo they've got an 8 megapixel rear
shooter that I have to confess this
unboxing is a lie I did leave this on it but as you can
plainly see if I flip this around
I have definitely already been using this phone it definitely has a bunch my
apps on it so the camera could be best described as pretty mediocre though it
does shoot 4k video if you care about that sort of thing the shape of the
phone is going to be a little bit polarizing so it's got kind of these these harder corners up at the top and
this this asymmetric kind of rounded thing down here at the bottom but
personally actually the thing it reminds
me of most so far is actually the razor phone which I've been using as my daily
driver lately so they're very similar in
the sense that they're these kind of blocky phones of course the razor phone
is more expensive and has a couple of advantages it's got a 120 Hertz display
it's got a 1440p display it's got better
speakers so this one is just relying on a bottom speaker right here but it is
quite a bit more expensive but I do prefer their rounded approach to the
bottom because then when you're using it you don't have it kind of digging into
you like that it's still got hardware buttons which is interesting so if
you're someone who was looking for something that still has hardware buttons I mean to be clear there's
nothing that I really dislike about it it just doesn't stand out as anything
special so volume rockers on the right lock buttons on the right a
reconfigurable button for bixby ah
I'm just kidding it's not for Bixby you can change it to whatever you want is
also right below that then on the bottom you've got your hardware buttons as well
as a fingerprint enabled touch home button with the BlackBerry logo on it
does have a headphone jack type-c and the speaker that I mentioned before so
the last thing that's kind of cool and this one actually is pretty neat is when
you've got the camera open you can either capture like this or you can tap
this button and what it does is it'll
automatically save that picture into your locker so if you're like you know
heading over to the bathroom or whatever and you're like you know what my wife
really needs to see a picture of you know the goods right now you can take
that picture with the BlackBerry button and then hopefully you have a super
secure messaging locations that you use
blackberry messenger and you can snap
that dick pic and send it back home for others to enjoy so that's a feature that
I could see some people definitely getting into the last thing is that this
is another first for blackberry is that finally they have caught up to the year
2017
let's see if this works and they have a
water-resistant phone so it's ip67
waterproof capacitive screens they do not like that they do not like that
water I guess honestly there's not really much else to say about it overall
in use I actually kind of liked it it's
cheaper than most other flagship smartphones so it's not available in the
US sorry guys but it's available in the
UK and Canada and it's about six hundred Canadian dollars so compared to a pixel
- it's about I think with the promo that's on right now about two hundred
and fifty dollars cheaper so four thousand million power battery
serviceable camera like definitely a couple Jen's ago camera good enough
specs like we're at the point now where if you're not playing a ton of games
honestly a Snapdragon 625 like a mid to your processor is just fine and a pretty
close to stock Android experience so is
anyone asking for this does anyone need this I don't know it's like blackberry
reached out offering to send a unit and I didn't even I didn't even promise to
do a video I was just like yeah I don't know sure you can turn it over I'll like
try it out and it was a resounding ly
okay phone so I figured you know what the hey let's do a video what do you
guys think should they even still bother branding
phones blackberry or should they just give up alright love to hear your
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