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hey guys often it is 2017 and blackberries to exist but why at what point black berry was pretty much synonymous with the word smartphone however over the last few years they made some questionable decision first up we have the blackberry Passport now this is very much sort of the last hurrah of the BlackBerry 10 devices as it was still completely manufactured by blackberry ran their software and had a very much blackberry keyboard so this guy was released back in 2014 however it's just a little bit different than the old BlackBerry's back in the day as a size comparison this is what the passport looks like compared to a galaxy s7 well it's not that much taller it is so wide like this is that's a crazy crazy phone in the hand I go say the weight is unique there's definitely no other phone out there with such a big display and an actual physical keyboard so it's rocking a 4.5 inch 1440 by X 1440 display it might be a little bit weird to have a modern smartphone with a square screen but in this case it actually does kind of make sense as having that keyboard on the bottom is sort of a blackberry trademark by Kesha it might be a blackberry trademark an actual micro trademark something kind of cool about the passport is that the keyboard is actually a touch pad so for example I can use it to scroll up and down on this or maybe swipe left or right depending on what it is and of course it has a touchscreen so that kind of negates a lot of usefulness of a touch pad but it is a sort of useful feature to have I liked how before you even let you get into the phone you have to read about blackberry and how there a global leader in mobile communication sure guys alright so we are up and running with the blackberry Passport even though this phone is a couple years old at this point it actually has pretty reasonable specs so inside it has not Dragon 801 processor paired with three gigabytes of RAM and it also has a pretty monstrously sized 30 450 million power battery putting a lot of phones even from 2017 to shame well it coats the bb10 it's actually not that bad so some things that I like about it is just how easy it is to multitask everything is very nice and smooth pretty responsible especially considering this is a few year old phone and when it comes to apps there are some so for example if you open up you cube app it's just a web app which is the same for a fair few of these but to be fair stuff like the Twitter app actually we're reasonably well and you also do have some support for Android app this is done through the Amazon App Store the way it works is there's a virtual version of Android running on top of VB 10 so if I jump into something like Spotify it works pretty much as you would expect some apps don't really take too kindly to the square screen and generally speaking performance isn't great but it does work now beyond that you can't have some issues so for example a game like cross your robe just completely fails to do anything for me but considering that this is an older phone it's running sort of a clergy put together gross version of Android the app support is not terrible honestly there's a lot I really do like about this passport if it was running an up-to-date version of Android I actually don't give this a shot next up we have the blackberry print now this is an interesting phone for one big reason it was the first BlackBerry to ship with Android instead of vbos take a look at the box and you'll see they promise privilege and privacy that is quite the statement to put on your phone crack this one open and you'll see a blackberry that looks a little bit different so at first glance it looks like a traditional smartphone however if you roll it up roll it up it actually does have a full keyboard while the passport is a really wide phone the print is incredibly tall of course once you slide the keyboard down it's not that much bigger than an average phone and do you fear the hardware here is pretty nice it does feel a little bit plasticky even with the fake carbon-fiber on the back but it feels pretty reasonable in the hand it's less you're consuming that you do have that physical keyboard I think why Barry did a pretty good job of engineering it into the probe so the mechanism feels pretty solid if you open it up you can feel just a little bit of flex in the chassis but it's not too bad but of course you're getting a very standard smartphone not even considering that there is a full keyboard inside the physical keyboard is decent I don't think it really quite matches up some of the earlier blackberries like the bold I think it just is a little bit mushy err than I'd like but again I've been on software keyboards for years so this is something that's a really big deal to you I think the Priven might make some sense but honestly I would probably use it with keyboard down all the time so then it really jumps out to me is the display not only is it 1440p but it's also OLED and it really shows the colors are nice the blacks are dark honestly I really do like the hardware this phone the proof was the first like very Android phone but it is most certainly not the last that's where the D tech 50 comes in so this while it has the BlackBerry name on it is very much not a true blackberry well this was launched less than a year ago what you're really getting here is a little more than a rebadged Alcatel idol 4 so now I did not have a way of getting out of the box so gone or most of the traditional sort of blackberry things like BlackBerry OS is this guy runs Android as well as a physical keyboard it very much is exactly what it looks like a fairly generic 300 dollar smartphone so here we're getting fairly close to stock Android there are of course some BlackBerry apps including bbm which of course is already available on Android and iOS anyway right now as well as DTEC so this is all about security so in theory this is going to allow you to amplify the security of a traditional Android device and it kind of works so you can see here they'll give me some sort of warnings as far as in you set up a screen lock or Tron data encryption it also reminds me that I am using a BlackBerry device and therefore device hardware is a-ok I guess but generally speaking this is not really anything that special compared to other devices specifically Samsung which also has a very similar style of software so all these phones aren't running Android 7 just yet they are at least fully up to date so if you check the Android security patch it's for March 5th which is just a couple weeks ago from when I'm recording this video and that's nice to see especially since the prep is coming up on two years old of course it would be nice to have a newer version of Android to go along with it but at the very least they are keeping these up to date and since it's a fairly soft version of Android hopefully those updates will continue for a little while so well I don't really recommend these phones there's nothing necessarily wrong with blackberry sure they're nowhere near as big as they used to be but these days they're making decent Android phones with solid hardware and some legitimately cool features such as a physical keyboard it might not be for everyone but I do believe there's a place for blackberry 2017 so would you guys buy a blackberry let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one