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hey I'm Nate today we're checking out the BlackBerry leap and this business focus smartphone is aimed at young career builders who want that Blackberry pedigree but don't necessarily want to spend too much you can pick one up unlock for 275 bucks from Amazon and blackberry the blackberry leaf is a plain black slab that looks professional in a quaint sort of way and there's a 5-inch display with a 1280 by 720 pixel resolution that's a bit low for a screen this size but it looks great so that's not too much of a problem the phone is also kind of chunky and heavier than it looks but you certainly won't have trouble toning it around you can't remove the battery but blackberry claims you'll see about 25 hours of heavy use out of it that's a bold claim but the blackberry passport and the blackberry classic both clocked in around the same levels in our battery test there are 16 gigs of storage space but you can add up to 128 gig microSD cards through a port on the side here there's something missing and that's the keyboard BlackBerry's made plenty of touchscreen only devices but without one the leap doesn't do all that much to stand out the phone is running the latest version of blackberry 10 OS which means your only options for apps or blackberry world and the Amazon Appstore that offers a taste of Android but far less than you find on the Google Play Store the BlackBerry hub puts all of your mail texts and messages in one readily accessible place but the average young career builder has far more choices from managing their messaging on Android and iOS devices you can find off the BlackBerry system by holding down this button on the side and it'll answer questions when is the next Red Sox game set reminders and do all those kinds of helpful things but we've had Google now in iOS Assyria and Windows Phones Cortana for quite a while now the leaps virtual keyboard is fast and accurate and it's a great tech suggestion function that superimposes suggestions right up to the keyboard swipe on a word to slide it in and you'll save precious screen space and time but Android and more recently iOS lets you pick whatever keyboard is right for you which is arguably more important for most users if the IT department at your next corporate job hands you one of these you aren't going to be disappointed but the physical keyboard is what sets BlackBerry devices apart without one the BlackBerry leap isn't really doing anything fundamentally better than your average smartphone and you're dealing with a limited app selection if there's something on a blackberry that you can't get anywhere else and you hate physical keyboards this might be a phone for you otherwise you're going to be better off on a more robust platform i'm nate be sure to read my full review had seen that thanks for watching you