Part 1 iSwitched to Blackberry 10 Blog 30 Day Challenge Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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learn more hey guys for those of you that don't know me my name is Slick I've
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been using Android for about three and a half years now and I've been challenged
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to do a Blackberry eyes switched for 30 days so I'm going to try out the Z 10
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we'll see how this goes first thing anyone notices about a phone is the physical aspects of the phone so it is
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kind of a large phone but that's totally fine for me because I do have large
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hands so it's not actually an issue for me um the only thing that I can find
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that I don't like about it it has a good weight to it I like phones that weigh a
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bit um and I like the back a lot the texture on the back is nice but I don't
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actually like that the plugs are on the side that's a preference thing so some
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people might like that but if I'm going to put my phone in like the cup holder
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of my car or somewhere else where it's sitting in something then being on the
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side might be a hindrance because if I put it down like that um the cable could
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hit the side of the cup in my car or whatever so I'm not actually a huge fan
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of the cables being on the side but it's not really the end of the world uh mic
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plug and Power on the top and then you've got volume over here um you can
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take off the back right there and the battery is kind
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of cool but other than that there's nothing that interesting back here except for your SD
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card um I haven't had a ton of experience with the camera right there
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I've taken a few pictures I took some inside of a hockey rink threw glass down
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to the hockey rink and those looked great but then I took some in my room
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that was close closer lit and those didn't look as great but then that was
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with no custom settings or anything going on so I'm not too sure about that
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the next thing you'll notice about it is I did talk about its size but if you look at its screen which is quite large
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you'll likely notice that it looks kind of gross right
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now I did just try to clean it off and I do actively try to clean it off um for
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anyone that watches the live streams you'll notice that if I ever have my phone out I'm constantly rubbing it on
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like the pant leg of my pants or whatever because I do like because I do
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like keeping it clean and that's actually a problem with this phone because I cannot get fingerprints or
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anything off of it no matter how many times I try um It's actually kind of crazy but
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when the screen is on you might be able to see it better because of reflection
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um I can't actually see the fingerprints quite as much when the screen's on but
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again due to reflection you might be able to when you first turn the screen on
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you'll notice notifications here it's actually quite nice because I can see I
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have five emails one Facebook notification and two general notifications so it's kind of SE cool so
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I can see what's happening if I'm waiting for an email I can actually see it come in without individually going in
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and checking my email then they have a come on screen
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turn on um they have a nice quick feature to get to your blackberry Hub
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which is the integration of all your different social networks email all that kind of stuff which is swiping up and to
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the right you'll notice that didn't work I wish that worked from this screen but
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you have to swipe this screen away oh I'm already there wait a second there we
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go this is what you'd normally get to just I was already on that and then if you go from the bottom and
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go to the right it brings up your blackberry Hub I kind of wish it did it
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from the home screen but I forgive it because Blackberry Hub is just kind of
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fantastic it integrates all of your
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social media it integrates all of your emails you can have multiple emails on
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it it integrates your Blackberry Messenger text messages everything so I
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actually really like that a lot you can see everything in order as it comes in
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on the list which is fantastic because
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if you're just trying to quickly go through all your social media or text
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messages or whatever you can quickly jump over here do all that jump back out
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and go away one thing I've noticed with Blackberry so far is efficiency is kind
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of their deal which is just absolutely awesome I noticed the forum's down
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that's not a good email to get I'll have to jump on that after this video another
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thing if you click on the Hub button in the bottom left hand corner I'm going to
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cover this up so you guys don't see my personal email um you can see you can go
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individually to different sections so notifications BBM text messages email
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whatever you want um just going to go back to HUB and then there it's no
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longer the list of everything it's the individual list for that um app or
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whatever you have so say it's email you go directly to your email and then it's
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just your email so if you know you want to go to email you can go individually
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to that or if you just want to see everything at once you go right into the Hub I actually really like this and it's
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very very fast to get to so again efficiency and getting things done on
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time is kind of a big point with this phone as far as the the App Store goes
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this is day one and I have not spent that much time in the App Store I've
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mainly been using the Social Media stuff and email and all that kind of stuff um
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but the first thing I noticed was that there isn't actually a Skype app I've
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done a search here you can see there's no Skype app um I don't know that many
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people that use Skype a crazy amount on their phones personally I'm sure people
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do um but I do a lot because I use it
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for interfacing with my moderator team on the Forum so um we have a person
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Skype chat so we can all keep in contact with each other very quickly to get things done quickly and I have that push
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to my phone so that I can always see what's going on if anything major happens I can check it up so it's
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actually kind of a big bummer that they don't have Skype chat
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um yeah I had like I said I haven't spent that much time in the App Store so
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hopefully other stuff is there um but Skype wasn't so that was a bummer I
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don't know how big of a deal this is it's not actually that important but um
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you don't have to press the button on the top to activate your phone if you
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touch below the screen and slide up the
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phone will turn on and you can do your full swipe right from there which is
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kind of cool but makes it that if you're cleaning it um like I said earlier the
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screen gets very dirty very easily if you're cleaning it and and you go to rub
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it and it can detect your finger through the other side again it's not really a big deal but the screen goes like crazy
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and you might it will unlock itself and you might click something and stuff starts opening and it goes nuts while
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you're trying to clean it so it's not really that big of a deal but it's just
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kind of weird when you go to clean your phone and the screen goes absolutely nuts I don't
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know again it's only day one so I haven't had a ton of time with this
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there's a cat right there sorry for looking over that um but the I've heard
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of this before I actually got the phone but there's kind of a bedside mode that
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I've heard of and I thought it was kind of interesting I thought it was just kind of a low power thing I didn't know
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a ton about it it opens up
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Pornhub um no it doesn't just to be
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clear that I'm sure you've used it already I have used it but it didn't
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open up Pornhub I can guarantee you that that's disappointing so what it actually does
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is when instead of swiping up on this screen when you swipe down it brings
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down the Deb bedside mode which as you can see is not actually PornHub it's
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terrible porn um it's a clock so I don't
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know what you're into but you might be into that um it's a clock that doesn't
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run for very long optimized for you
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wow you can turn
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wow you can turn on the alarm and off the alarm quickly and easily by swiping
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right here and then if you want to change the time you just click right on the time change it to exactly what you
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want go back and you're good to go one thing I noticed is that when you're
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sliding things away um very common feature with Blackberry is that if
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you're in an app if you want to go away you throw it away that's kind of just
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how it works there's no physical buttons there's no major featured on screen
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buttons except for like phone search and camera so if you're in say music and you
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need to get out it's not a single button that you press anything like that it's a
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single swipe throw away uh one thing I noticed about this is unlike say Android
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there doesn't seem to be momentum on your flick so you can't just kind of
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throw it off oh that actually worked but it doesn't usually do that I usually
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have to take it all the way off so I noticed take it off I noticed as I do
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this I get kind of the feeling that I'm like I'm done with you get out of here
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and it kind of reminds me of like the snobby businessman he's like Blackberry
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I'm done with your music get it away from me I have other things to do I'm
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busy so I don't know what kind of an accent was that a terrible one that's
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what that was and I'm sick so please mind me you're always sick I am always
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sick um so again like what the Hub ties
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into the professionalism thing you're done with something it gets out of the
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way there's no like slowly closing and all that kind of stuff it's you throw it
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away it's done it brings you to this screen which is recent applications so
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if you only do kind of like four things on your phone you can very easily jump
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into say music like I just said throw it away and then jump onto something else
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that you do all the time so that's actually pretty cool very efficient
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brings up the same thing I was talking about before so if I go to a web page
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let's say home of much which is much music is
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Apparently one of their default web
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pages I didn't even know that existed it's called
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YouTube so I'm hoping this will rotate there we go do you notice the lag
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time in there this just kind of weird I've had
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it a few times where I go to turn it and then by that time I've kind of done it
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again CU I'm waiting for it to actually like come on come on like I'm I'm kind
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of expecting it to go a lot faster so it's just kind of interesting how it
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takes a little while because the phone isn't slow but the rotation is slow
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here's a one for contrast here's a HTC One for contrast a Twitchy little bugger
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like it's quick it jumps really quickly if you go like this on a one I'm
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assuming it just kind of goes nuts yeah
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if I did that on this phone it wouldn't actually ever make a
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rotation oh oh it's like one step behind
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you oh when I'm vertical it's the wrong way so I don't know that's kind of weird
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um there is a rotation lock but then
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this section right here the like recent app things will save if you had it
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rotated so say if I go browser and then rotate it and
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then flick it away then go back browser
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still rotated it's again not really that
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big of an issue but it's just kind of weird it's like no I'm I'm this way now
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why are you the other way voice quality I have had I think one phone call with
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this um I'll hopefully be having more soon I don't have my personal Sim in
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here so it's kind of interesting calling people um but voice quality sounded fine
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um like I said I've only used it once so reception was fine for that time I was
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using it but I haven't really it was here like it was in the house and we're
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in kind of a big area so I wouldn't expect reception to be bad I you think
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30 days is going to go 30 days I'm
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already like Android deprived so that will be interesting I have everything on
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my phone set up exactly how I want it I have everything exactly where I want it
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to be so now being on a completely different device is just kind of weird
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and the only smartphone technology that I've ever used is Android
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so again being away from it is kind of weird um it's outside my comfort zone
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but we'll see I do like certain things like the Hub is kind of awesome so I'm
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not that worried about like my emails and text messages and stuff but I am
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worried about things like having access to Skype um I didn't really look for it
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but I didn't see an official Reddit app um I don't like the screen rotation how
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fast it is but then usually I just lock my screen rotation anyways so I'm not
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super worried about that um about app
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support but I think I might have already said that a couple times a couple times
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I'm very worried about app support I think it was implied every
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time you talked about Skype right that makes sense um the phone seems fine like
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the the actual calling features of the phone I'm on a bell Sim that seems fine
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I don't think I'm going to have any problems with that I don't know anyone
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else who has a Blackberry that I know of so I don't know how much BBM I'm going
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to be able to do um but from what I hear it's awesome so I'm probably going to be
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missing out more instead of not actually being able to do it
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um I had to down download Google talk
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but that's totally fine and Google talk integrates with um Hub again so that's
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totally awesome I guess I should hold this Hub so you guys can actually see what I'm talking about uh but yeah
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Google talk actually integrates with Hub so I had to download from the App Store
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it was there it had a really low rating I don't know why I think it had like two
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and a half Stars works perfectly not sure what's going on there um it didn't
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have that many ratings so that might be part of the the
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problem um yeah I think that's about it
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so hopefully in a few more days or a week or something I'll have more to
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actually talk about as I will have used it more um but yeah Linus is coming over
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have a feeling he's going to do something in case those in case you
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didn't notice I was operating the camera there which probably made it terrible
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yeah but we'll see rate rate Linus's camera skills in the comments tell me if
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I should fire slick or not
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I can see all the fingerprints there's literally like nothing I can do about
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that that's going to look
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horrible I don't even want to know what that looks like