Gadgetory

this is the new blackberry the D Tech 50 and it's like no blackberry that's come before there's no physical keyboard no blackberry operating system just a super thin super light phone that runs Android 6.0 in fact blackberry didn't even make this phone it's actually an Alcatel the only major difference is instead of alka tells classy glass back you get this dull gray plastic ouch still Alcatel makes a pretty decent phone this $300 handset isn't as snappy as my galaxy s7 but for the money it's not bad it's got a cool programmable button to quickly launch any app you like and stereo speakers that still work when the phones face down but why not just buy the Alcatel instead of the BlackBerry software perhaps but I can't say I was all that impressed with any of BlackBerry's apps I don't know about you but my friends don't really use bbm for messages anymore the BlackBerry keyboard is a little sluggish too and not great at predicting my words I've got to admit the BlackBerry hub is cool letting me answer all my emails tweets and slack messages in one place but you'll get duplicate notifications unless you tweak a lot besides you don't really need a blackberry phone to get the BlackBerry hub anymore and don't get me started on BlackBerry's claim that this is the most secure smartphone ever Android marshmallow phones already come standard with full disk encryption and they already make apps ask for permission before they pry into your life so BlackBerry's dtek software is kind of worthless also this super secure smartphone doesn't have a fingerprint sensor go ahead look for it so there you have it the blackberry detect 50 for $300 it's a pretty decent phone but I probably buy something else