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hi I'm Nathan today we're checking out the blackberry classic now this smartphone is available for $449 unlock and as the name implies it's gonna be really familiar for your blackberry fan it starts as expected with the keyboard the layout is going to be really familiar to anyone to use the BlackBerry in the last three or four years or so there are four rows of evenly spaced keys and typing feels fantastic every key is shaped with little ridges and depression so if your touch typing you'll always be aware of when your fingers shift between keys really helps is accuracy and the keys out for a nice satisfying click with every press which leaves you typing confidently the classic looks good to a stainless steel frame borders the full length of the phone and the back has a nice grippy texture three buttons sit on the right side there are the volume controls and a mute button in the middle push and hold it to call it the BlackBerry assistant it works just like Siri or Google now ask a question or give it a task and it'll do it the SIM card and SD card slot sit on the left side the phone accepts nano SIM cards and SD card to up to 128 gigs call quality is great I tested the phone on 18 T's LTE network here in San Francisco and could hear everyone I spoke to very clearly and heard no complaints the phone speakers are on the bottom with the microUSB charging port they're loud and calls sound nice and clear but the audio quality isn't really suitable for things like music so stick the headphones you'll find the headphone jack up top with the lock button the battery is non removable but rated for over 20 hours of use so you probably won't be hunting for a charger too often the phone is a 3.5 inch screen with a 720 X 720 pixel resolution that low resolution is kind of a bummer for images and video but text is going to be the primary concern here and it looks great everything is crisp and easy to read and edit the square aspect ratio is going to be a bigger problem though especially if you're running Android apps see the classic runs blackberry 10 point 3.1 and supports the Amazon App Store as well as blackberry world that's BlackBerry's App Store blackberry says that the idea is to get your secure enterprise level apps from them and turn to enter for things like games but a lot of Android apps just look really weird in the square format if you swipe down from the top of the screen while you're running an Android app you can actually choose from different screen ratio presets which could help things out attack but here's the thing is a great keyboard really enough smartphones live and die by the apps we can install on them and the small hodgepodge available on the Amazon Appstore isn't really gonna cut it and then they're all the great security and productivity features that BlackBerry offers it was really only shine in a managed IT environment which rules out a lot of smart phone numbers so that leaves existing blackberry fans now if you've got an older blackberry phone or you just have fond memories of the curve or bold you want to own the blackberry classic is going to be a great upgrade but for those of us who weren't tied to physical keyboards or don't work in managed corporate environments then this phone isn't really for us I'm Nate Roth thanks for watching