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why shares blackberry Prive was a signal for change it was a keyboard centric smartphone that ditch the company's own mobile OS and chose instead to go full on Android well they're following up that device with yet another Android powered one the detect 50 which might have one of the lamest names in phone history but it's actually being targeted towards enterprise and business users add to that it's locating costs of $300 it's signaling yet another shift for the company blackbird was being a bit coy about the detect 50s design when it was unveiled during its live stream in fact many folks said it looked like an all cattell Idol for well that's confirmed because they said that they actually reached out to TCL for the design there's nothing wrong with that just because this is a practice that has been done countless times before given its price point the look and feel the phone is what you'd expect for something that costs $299 you have a rubbery textured rear surface and accented metal trim bezel around the sides and a slim and light package that makes it more manageable to use than the Prive let's be real here for a moment there's nothing special about the design and it kind of makes you wonder what's their focus seeing that they've got someone else to actually go ahead and design the phone it seems like their focus is being placed more on something else maybe software right what else is there say about the screen here other than its specs just a refresher it's a 5.2 inch 1080p display of some kind with an oleophobic coating and a 24-bit color depth that's what it seems more like an LCD screen than AMOLED just because the color black doesn't achieve the same pitch black tone we get with AMOLED it's detailed it offers decent clarity at all angles and the brightness output appears to be more than sufficient now all this makes it apparent that black bear recognizes the popularity of an all touch smartphone so it feels right for this phone tackle on that form factor the detect 50 gets its processing punch from a snapdragon 617 chip and 3 gigabytes of RAM now this combination won't raise many eyebrows but in reality this phone doesn't need all the horsepower that flagships claimed to deliver most folks who are thinking about buying this phone are probably more interested in the software and security still the phone manages to exhibit a tolerant level responsiveness with most basic tasks for phone that takes pride and security there's just one thing that people might think that makes it incomplete and that's a fingerprint sensor well the company chose not to offer one due to compromising the phone's cost now while we understand that it's a bit tough to swallow especially now that we have sub $100 phones with them again there's really nothing that's too glaring with the cameras here it's fashioned with a 13 megapixel rear camera with an LED flash and the front facing cameras an 8 megapixel one they all seem like legitimate contenders and if you want you can program your phone's convenience key to open up the camera and that's by your choice speaking of the camera app it's pretty ordinary we haven't spent a whole lot of time with the phone yet but we're really curious to see how these cameras perform the black bear ID tech fifty follows in the same footsteps as the prepared by running Android and the company's detect software that's all for overseas what's happening to the phone like what services and hardware being accessed by the apps and also informs you about the phone's overall security status the Android experience is a welcome one but it's enhanced by the protection of detail the problem here with the software is that there's nothing that differentiates the experience here at the BTEC 50 and say last year what we saw with the prif they're essentially the same say for the convenience key integration quite frankly the detect 50 is the key borderless version of the privy while that's a generality there's still the matter of specs and that's where the prep will continue to be regarded as the superior one there's still hope for the detect 50 even though the software experience is similar and unchanged that's because its design will certainly appeal to the masses with its all touch form factor price wise it also has an advantage because its price lower at $299 that's an aggressive price point to be at right from the onset despite that it has a lot of other phones to compete against in that price bracket those who are particular about their phone security will want to keep this one in consideration but for a little bit more there's also the Prive right and that's our quick hands-on look with the BlackBerry D tech fifty if you guys want to learn more about this phone you can get our hands on about it check out our website Android Authority calm this is John V signing off