Gadgetory

hey everybody beater with the verge here and you're probably seeing a bunch of reviews for the BlackBerry probe but ours isn't quite ready yet because our first unit was actually defective but we have a new one here and it seems pretty good so I just wanted to walk through seven quick things that I know and actually love about the BlackBerry print so the first thing is that it is the first BlackBerry device running full Android it is straight Android it's android 5.1 lollipop and it has some blackberry customizations on top the second thing to know and probably the most important thing is that it's a blackberry so it has a physical keyboard and the physical keyboard is pretty good as physical keyboards go yes you can type faster on a touchscreen but a physical physical keyboard lets you see the whole screen when you're typing which is really a nice advantage really quick about the hardware I think it's really good it's a five point four inch screen it's actually curved around the sides and the back is really Rippey when there's this 18 megapixel camera here it's really grippy so you can hold on to it and like I mean look at that I mean okay so the keyboard let's talk about that a little bit so we're going to jump into a compose message here in the hub and one of the things you can do is you can swipe up to just autocomplete letters and it's a little bit tricky so it doesn't always work but you can swipe down to just get symbols and then my favorite thing is you can DoubleTap on it and then you move into cursor mode and you can just slide your finger on the keyboard to move the cursor which is really convenient and now BlackBerry's added a bunch of software customizations on top of Android but they're really not that bad they're actually pretty good so it's secure there's a security out a piece of software called D Tech which tells you what is going good and bad with your device you can also swipe up from the home button to get three shortcuts Google now blackberry hub actually whatever you want and the BlackBerry hub itself is like a lot of good ideas it takes all of your incoming email and tweets and some Facebook stuff bbm and puts it in one giant bucket and you can set all kinds of crazy filters to do stuff on it really good idea although it's a little bit too much noise for me as far as specs go it has a Qualcomm 808 processor 3ds Ram two gigs of storage and it's expandable storage and the camera is an 18 megapixel camera which is actually pretty good even in low-light although I will say it's pretty slow so the last thing about the probe is it is short for the privilege of privacy which is about the corniest thing i've ever heard anybody say about a phone it is $699 which is pretty expensive and in the US it's available on AT&T we will have a full review of this thing very soon