Did ANYONE ask for this?... - Blackberry Motion Classic Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,198 words · ~5 min read
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we are all the way in New York I can't
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believe I'm here again this is my third trip here this month doing an unboxing
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that nobody asked for of a product that
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as far as I'm aware nobody asked for this is the BlackBerry motion the latest
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in the lineup of BlackBerry smartphones produced under license by TCL so on the
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surface this appears to be pretty much I like this table got like a look at that
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it's like authoritative BAM so on the surface this thing doesn't
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appear to be really much of anything special it's got a Snapdragon what would
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what is it a 625 processor it's got four
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gigs of RAM let's fire this baby up it's got 32 gigabytes or if you're more of
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the French persuasion 32 gig of octets
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so you got that going for you Android 7.1 nougats a 5.5 inch full HD display
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with a premium nano diamond coated
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display you got a sim removal tool and a booklet
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see look I don't save myself the trouble of unboxing it they've got a picture
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cool you got a quick charger it's got a four thousand milliamp hour battery
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which is a first for blackberry and actually pretty unusual in general you
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got a Type C charging cable it does of course charge with type C and it's a
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little replace why does blackberry still
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need to exist in the modern age as a
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Canadian I guess there's like kind of a sentimental attachment to the brand that
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probably most people wouldn't share but
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as it is like even with the sentimentality you still have to find a
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way to differentiate yourself so let's have a look at this phone then so on the
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back they've got kind of a textured kind of rubberized grip ii thing going on
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with of course that iconic blackberry logo they've got an 8 megapixel rear
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shooter that I have to confess this
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unboxing is a lie I did leave this on it but as you can
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plainly see if I flip this around
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I have definitely already been using this phone it definitely has a bunch my
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apps on it so the camera could be best described as pretty mediocre though it
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does shoot 4k video if you care about that sort of thing the shape of the
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phone is going to be a little bit polarizing so it's got kind of these these harder corners up at the top and
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this this asymmetric kind of rounded thing down here at the bottom but
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personally actually the thing it reminds
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me of most so far is actually the razor phone which I've been using as my daily
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driver lately so they're very similar in
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the sense that they're these kind of blocky phones of course the razor phone
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is more expensive and has a couple of advantages it's got a 120 Hertz display
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it's got a 1440p display it's got better
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speakers so this one is just relying on a bottom speaker right here but it is
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quite a bit more expensive but I do prefer their rounded approach to the
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bottom because then when you're using it you don't have it kind of digging into
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you like that it's still got hardware buttons which is interesting so if
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you're someone who was looking for something that still has hardware buttons I mean to be clear there's
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nothing that I really dislike about it it just doesn't stand out as anything
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special so volume rockers on the right lock buttons on the right a
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reconfigurable button for bixby ah
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I'm just kidding it's not for Bixby you can change it to whatever you want is
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also right below that then on the bottom you've got your hardware buttons as well
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as a fingerprint enabled touch home button with the BlackBerry logo on it
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does have a headphone jack type-c and the speaker that I mentioned before so
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the last thing that's kind of cool and this one actually is pretty neat is when
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you've got the camera open you can either capture like this or you can tap
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this button and what it does is it'll
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automatically save that picture into your locker so if you're like you know
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heading over to the bathroom or whatever and you're like you know what my wife
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really needs to see a picture of you know the goods right now you can take
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that picture with the BlackBerry button and then hopefully you have a super
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secure messaging locations that you use
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blackberry messenger and you can snap
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that dick pic and send it back home for others to enjoy so that's a feature that
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I could see some people definitely getting into the last thing is that this
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is another first for blackberry is that finally they have caught up to the year
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2017
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let's see if this works and they have a
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water-resistant phone so it's ip67
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waterproof capacitive screens they do not like that they do not like that
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water I guess honestly there's not really much else to say about it overall
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in use I actually kind of liked it it's
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cheaper than most other flagship smartphones so it's not available in the
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US sorry guys but it's available in the
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UK and Canada and it's about six hundred Canadian dollars so compared to a pixel
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- it's about I think with the promo that's on right now about two hundred
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and fifty dollars cheaper so four thousand million power battery
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serviceable camera like definitely a couple Jen's ago camera good enough
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specs like we're at the point now where if you're not playing a ton of games
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honestly a Snapdragon 625 like a mid to your processor is just fine and a pretty
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close to stock Android experience so is
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anyone asking for this does anyone need this I don't know it's like blackberry
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reached out offering to send a unit and I didn't even I didn't even promise to
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do a video I was just like yeah I don't know sure you can turn it over I'll like
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try it out and it was a resounding ly
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okay phone so I figured you know what the hey let's do a video what do you
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guys think should they even still bother branding
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phones blackberry or should they just give up alright love to hear your
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