Blackberry Priv with dedicated keyboard using Android.
Sim Free so unlocked to all networks.
Blackberry is not every ones cup of tea, but this price is lower for a new handset, than some second hand prices on eBay.
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Astec123
27 Aug 168#10
I paid £600 across the term of the contract for this a couple of months ago. Had been waiting on a price drop and it seemed to not be coming. GRRRRR. I had a perfectly good Huawei P8 and just got bored of waiting for them to drop the price. However, I got a contract deal with some pretty meaty allowances but I'd still have preferred to get it SIM free.
Pros
- Good OS experience, having used several Nexus devices it's nice to see a close to stock experience from someone else
- Lovely screen, FHD phones before it feel very old fashioned and I love the OLED as never had a phone with this sort of screen.
- Keyboard is great, I love the real tactile feedback of being able to type a message and not look at the screen, bashing a touch screen just doesn't work for me. Plus it makes posting to HUKD or Reddit very easy as you can power through posts.
- The touchscreen keyboard is like no other even swype and so on are put to shame by how accurate it is.
- Fast, it doesn't feel slow at any time, it's got plenty of RAM so applications load quickly if recently used and you can have many on the go before they purge out of RAM.
- Unique, other than my partner who also has a Priv I've never seen another bar a plastic fantastic non functioning demo model in a CPW store. It's a nice talking point when you flick the keyboard open and people look at you funny thinking it's a traditional candy bar phone.
- OS updates, in the couple of months I've had the phone It's had 4 updates, 1 of which was 6.0 Marshmallow.
Cons
- BB features feel like an afterthought when you've seen how slick they work in BB OS. Not awful, just slow to respond. I turned them off on mine in the end
- Overheating, not a major issue generally, however it happens quite a bit if you play games for anything more than 10 minutes.
- Back of the phone gets hot, not necessarily an issue but it's not pleasant in the current hot weather.
- Battery life can be hit and miss if you use the phone intensively. Some days it lasts and lasts, then do the same thing the next day and it manages half the usage.
- No wireless charging in the UK. But the Americans get this feature and the phone for quite significantly better prices.
I hope they release another full keyboard phone in the next couple of years so that I have a worthy replacement. So overall I would say I'm happy.
parasitemol to Houstieboy
29 Aug 165#24
... From the guy whose last deal was a Windows 10 device? :man:
Houstieboy
29 Aug 164#21
£399 for a blackberry..... HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Maevoric
27 Aug 161#1
Wow blackberry's gone android, neat
Makkand
27 Aug 161#2
Blackberry hardware and ergonomic worked quite well, now they they're employing android it sounds like a winning combination!
CampGareth
27 Aug 161#3
Ooh I own one of those! Paid about £415 for it at the start of the year second hand. Initially it had some fairly major software problems but then android 6.0 came along and I haven't found a problem since. Does get hot while under load but so do all the SD810 or 808 based devices.
tezray
27 Aug 16#4
yeah dect50 or whatever it is I was offered one for work or this priv didn't realise it was so expensive still went for the Samsung a5 2016 hate blackberry
nav157
27 Aug 16#5
fantastic phone with brilliant software very close to stock android, in fact slightly better because of BB features. Did not have much use for the keyboard but might be useful for some. It's the only reason I got rid of it because of the thickness due to the physical keyboard. I hope they had made one without keyboard I definitely would have kept it.
£399.99 is a very good price for this phone I think it should have been retailing at that from the beginning might have done really well.
nav157
27 Aug 161#6
fantastic phone with brilliant software very close to stock android, in fact slightly better because of BB features. Did not have much use for the keyboard but might be useful for some. It's the only reason I got rid of it because of the thickness due to the physical keyboard. I hope they had made one without keyboard I definitely would have kept it.
£399.99 is a very good price for this phone I think it should have been retailing at that from the beginning might have done really well.
roflll
27 Aug 162#7
£400 for a keyboard...
flang
27 Aug 162#8
Love this phone but just too expensive. This needs to be around the 250/300 mark to attract people and save Blackberry.
Opening post
Sim Free so unlocked to all networks.
Blackberry is not every ones cup of tea, but this price is lower for a new handset, than some second hand prices on eBay.
Top comments
Pros
- Good OS experience, having used several Nexus devices it's nice to see a close to stock experience from someone else
- Lovely screen, FHD phones before it feel very old fashioned and I love the OLED as never had a phone with this sort of screen.
- Keyboard is great, I love the real tactile feedback of being able to type a message and not look at the screen, bashing a touch screen just doesn't work for me. Plus it makes posting to HUKD or Reddit very easy as you can power through posts.
- The touchscreen keyboard is like no other even swype and so on are put to shame by how accurate it is.
- Fast, it doesn't feel slow at any time, it's got plenty of RAM so applications load quickly if recently used and you can have many on the go before they purge out of RAM.
- Unique, other than my partner who also has a Priv I've never seen another bar a plastic fantastic non functioning demo model in a CPW store. It's a nice talking point when you flick the keyboard open and people look at you funny thinking it's a traditional candy bar phone.
- OS updates, in the couple of months I've had the phone It's had 4 updates, 1 of which was 6.0 Marshmallow.
Cons
- BB features feel like an afterthought when you've seen how slick they work in BB OS. Not awful, just slow to respond. I turned them off on mine in the end
- Overheating, not a major issue generally, however it happens quite a bit if you play games for anything more than 10 minutes.
- Back of the phone gets hot, not necessarily an issue but it's not pleasant in the current hot weather.
- Battery life can be hit and miss if you use the phone intensively. Some days it lasts and lasts, then do the same thing the next day and it manages half the usage.
- No wireless charging in the UK. But the Americans get this feature and the phone for quite significantly better prices.
I hope they release another full keyboard phone in the next couple of years so that I have a worthy replacement. So overall I would say I'm happy.
All comments (51)
£399.99 is a very good price for this phone I think it should have been retailing at that from the beginning might have done really well.
£399.99 is a very good price for this phone I think it should have been retailing at that from the beginning might have done really well.