Gadgetory

so we've bought phones from LG Huawei and Sony but also from two unexpected sources we have we've got blackberry and Nokia two big blasts from the past coming with their phones let's start with the BlackBerry phone it's called the key one guess what you make of it it's got a keyboard and a 4.5 inch screen this is definitely interesting it's supposed to be best of both worlds and there are some cool features on it I found the keyboard to be a little bit squashed typing was a little bit difficult but I'm also so used to using a virtual keyboard now that I don't know if this is the phone or if I need to relearn it I think it's definitely interesting and something that old fans will gravitate towards but I don't think that this is gonna compete with the Samsung and LG super phones that we're gonna see of course and they are going after the high-end with the key one I think it's about $500 and then we've got Nokia on the other side with the Nokia 3 5 and 6 and their Android phones which are much more the lower end of things and this is the first time that Nokia has come out with an Android phone yeah it is and I think that's it says a lot about what where they're aiming their brand right now in the low-end with these phones they're not doing a and all-singing all-dancing phone which for me is a big disappointment I wanted to see them relaunch with a big fanfare and this amazing phone but we've gone for low-end and I do think it shows because the designs they're not that exciting they're a little bit kind of what we've come to see from a lot of the lower end brands from China and just kind of playing metal designs perfectly nice though so do you think that's enough to really get people behind Nokia again I don't know I mean I think that there are a lot of people who always want an inexpensive phone but the funny thing for me also is that one of those phones isn't even a smart phone yeah of course but we've had a relaunch of Nokia 3310 this is a phone that we first saw 17 years ago and it's back again but it hasn't really changed all that much physically it looks basically the same has got colourful designs bubbly buttons and but and functionally it's not a smart phone so you don't get whatsapp Twitter Instagram on there you've just got things like calendar contacts there is a camera but it's very very basic so this is not a phone for the smartphone lovers yeah this doesn't sound like it's gonna replace your phone it sounds like it would maybe be an addition phone something you could give to your kids or take to a fest of all but you know you're gonna lose all something like that but it's going to be very very affordable so I think Nokia's going after emerging markets with this rather than the people who love the smartphone so I think it'll be interesting to see how that does so basically we've got two different approaches blackberry on the high end Nokia on the low end and I think that they're going to meet in the middle eventually we'll have BlackBerry's start to release some cheaper lower end products and hopefully we're gonna see Nokia come out with that phone that you want the super high-end device yeah I think something very exciting to watch