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least on paper the BlackBerry prim is the device that we've been asking for for years its Android running on a blackberry but there's a lot of competition out there it's competing in expensive waters so I had a lot of questions going into testing the Prive I'll be using it now for four days and we're still gearing up to a full review but I had a ton of questions how is it going to perform as the size has a slider how's Android all kinds of other things so before you guys figure out whether or not the print is right for you I'm try and help answer those questions I'm John Reggie from TechnoBuffalo these are the top 5 things to know before buying the blackberry print all right so let's start with number 5 the curved screen it's actually really useful I love the galaxy s6 edge+ mostly because a curved screen looked awesome didn't add much in the utility department here though really useful you can pick which side the information comes on do a simple swipe in you can customize all this information you can see your calendar you can jump into your mail I've got something else set up in blackberry hub you'll see it all there set up tasks right from there and also jump into your contacts really easy relatively customizable feel a little Settings icon so finally a curved screen actually provides utility nice to see blackberry throw that in here number four this is almost stock Android blackberries take on Google's OS seems way more like cyanogen than TouchWiz meaning the tweaks are very much in the vein of Android didn't try and redo or rethink the UI at all a lot of really useful software tweaks advanced interactions for example shortcuts galore you can have a shortcut for almost anything you could do with your phone everything that BlackBerry's added here has a reason behind it they didn't throw the kitchen sink actually hoping you can use one of their featured presumably you will use almost every feature that's here so every one of them seems to be really useful it is based on 5.1.1 lollipop but presumably marshmallow will be coming blackberry said sometime next year number three the keyboards BlackBerry's on-screen keyboard is one of the best that I've ever used predictive text is really awesome and just been a pleasure to type on it's also surprisingly accurate but this is the Prive and it's a blackberry the story it's all about that guy down there on Yankees it's a type it's sort of strange going back to the physical keyboard I found myself sliding it out quite a bit but not the type on it's really awesome as a trackpad you saw this on the passport but the keys you can use just to scroll through text really nice easy elegant way to scroll through over your doing that even take your finger and put up on the screen and perhaps you know cover content over you're looking at it's a really nice elegant way to scroll through whatever you're looking at number two this device is really thin chances are it's been a while since you last used a slider phone so you might think it's gonna be a little chunky because got a keeper under there right not at all at nine point four millimeters if you hand this one to somebody who doesn't know what it is they'll just think it's any other candy bar phone very thin and the phone feels great in the hand and the number one thing you might not know about the BlackBerry prin it gets very warm for it starts screaming about a Snapdragon 810 the 808 is in here so not sure if that's the culprit a lot of phone's been using it without any heat issues the phone does get extremely warm no matter what you're doing whether you're watching an eight hour video of a fireplace you're just browsing the web the phone gets warm it does cool off very quickly also if you're using it put in your pocket maybe just weave it around in the air to cool off for a second otherwise you're going to get a blackberry logo branded into you or your thigh so there's a lot more to talk about about the Blackbird pro if you couldn't tell I've really been enjoying it I'm still gonna use it for a few more days before you the full review if you're watching this though way later in the future hello future you I'll put a card here though once the videos live to check out the full review anything else you guys want to see to make sure we cover we do that review leave in the comments down below until next time I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo see you guys next video