BlackBerry Priv Review Re-Do [2017] 

it's fun and spicy

Jeppe Werring Spicy?

I love it, too. It's unique!

*****​ I feel like that was directed at Austin Evans lol.

Indra Fransens my first impression... "Mr. Tony Starks". :))

Mikey Guanipa Agreed.

Mikey Guanipa Camera is pretty good.

Mikey Guanipa I bought one and I loved everything but the battery :( it heated up soo bad. Other than that was perfect

Raquel Vasquez When? Marshmallow improved it.

mine is still heating up to the point where the CPU temp averages 36 degrees celsius... already on marshmallow. i maxed out at 51 deg once playing a few matches of clash royale

Hahaha so funny to share this, DITTO. Map guidance on this it was abismal, and when using the wireless charging I was wondering why it didn't melt.

Isn't it?!

Nicholas Sainburg the looks are beautiful . can't ignore that

That wears quickly off when you get mad with its usage.

Love it so much, bored with iPhone like phone these days

Bit late but yeah most gorgeous phone i have owned. Unfortunately the lack of custom rom AND more importantly the sluggishness & heat increase made me sell it for an op3. Still nothing like the priv.

William Baker same here .... plz continue episodes like these

they still have after the buzz episodes, just less frequent

EnemyofHK yeah but I only watched the ones michael did

Mohamed El Domyaty he will definitely . most of people are not aware that its a micheal fisher channel that's the reason

you still have it?

As a PRIV owner I do agree to an extent. Just a few fixes could make it the best phone ever made. If it didn't have Snap Dragon's biggest mistake, if it got Android Nougat, if it had a fingerprint scanner, if BlackBerry got the thermal management correct, I wouldn't be thinking of a new phone for at least a couple of more years. Despite the flaws, I can't find a phone worth upgrading to. If I go for a Key2, I have to give up my AMOLED 5.4" qHD display. Any other brand, then I lose the physical keyboard that I've fallen in love with.

Lost mine bought another as a collectable for 100usd only this year.

Hi. Would u advise against getting a priv now in 2022? I wonder if it's usable and doesn't get too too hot or anything ? I want it for calls and text and occasional browsing.

The TMobile model got really hot but the Verizon model was fine & is unlocked.... So I still use mine for still photos with a Hassleblad lense & as a spare on mint mobile....

What do you use now?

Mateusz Wojtkiewicz The boot up slowness is probably due to the security tweaks.

NateFreestyle correct I know a lot of people don't research, however BlackBerry did a whole write up on the 7 layers of encryption put into the Priv. Google search will bring up the information.

Thanks for all the comments about the security. I don't think, however, that's the reason for overall poor performance or terrible ram management.

Priv is poorly configured out of the box - that's the main performance issue. Here's the fix: 1. Go to Settings -> Developer Options and change: - "Force GPU rendering" to "Enabled" - this is crucial - "Window animation scale" to .5x - "Transition animation scale" to .5x - "Animator duration scale" to .5x (looks like apps in Android don't load during the animation!!! They start AFTER the animation is done, which is huge waste of time - 1 second for each) 2. Turn of all the services that are doubled and run in the background without a reason. - For instance, if your e-mail is linked in BlackBerry Hub, then turn off Gmail sync in the background, because it does the same thing and drains your battery quicker. 3. Do not close BlackBerry apps, exit the Hub via the circle (home button) instead of back. This should be running as a service, but it isn't. But like I said, it's their first phone and they didn't know how to properly implement their apps in the system. Also make sure you don't have 10 000 messages loaded in your Hub, as it can slow down every inbox. Archive or delete old messages. Besides, turning off unnecessary Google and BlackBerry services, then configuring Doze, makes Priv last even two days on heavy usage.

Michał Limitless tried what you said and didn't work. Still really laggy.

The whole thing is slow af, sadly. :(

Chester Foster Action Launcher 3 offers the same feature!

hahaha he said as fuck :P

Haven't watched the video yet but this comment sums up what went wrong with my experience with the phone (on Android 6.0). Got rid of it after using it for two days, couldn't take the slow everything theme going on with it.

Chester Foster Great to hear Chester. Knowing BlackBerry, these apps will quickly improve through updates. I'm sticking with purchasing the Mercury but I'm glad they released these apps for everyone to enjoy.

stranger danger I agree; BlackBerry knows how to design phones. They have great talent.

I think he mentions it his earlier videos, if not on this channel then on PocketNow. It's called the Ingress Power Cube I believe.

Yeah the power bank is the Ingress Power Cube thank you! But what is the cable?

Seems to be a generic USB cable, this looks kind of like it: www.dhgate.com/store/product/visible-led-light-micro-usb-data-sync-charger/180042366.html

I can't seem to find my ingress power cube. anyways I know they made a second version of that power bank but the one he's using I'm the video is the first version

Ich bins actually the last true blackberry was the 9000 series that was still made by RIM

I also love the Z10 & Passport - that QNX platform is something unique only BlackBerry could make. The sad thing is that it never got a chance.

actually the mercury will be the last in-house design. The Venice will be the last one designed AND built by BB.

+Mr. Random hi what is RIM??

RIM is short for "Research In Motion". That "was" BlackBerry before. RIM was the company and BlackBerry was the product / handset. Now: BlackBerry is the company and BlackBerry is it's product. You can compare it like: "BMW" and "3 series". Now: "BMW" and "BMW car"

Never mind I jumped to conclusions. Just got to the part where the battery doesn't last a whole day. No thanks, I'll wait for the Priv 2 or Mercury

kwhite013 Lol. watching the whole video changed my mind too. Really happy with my Moto Z Play. All day (and sometimes more) battery with tons of screen on time.

kwhite013 you have to remember he does not use this often as a daily driver so that it's not a good judgment call. I watch tons of you tube videos,teather to my laptop. make calls send text and emails. still I don't have to put my phone on the charger. Also my BBM goes off all day and that doesn't kill my batter as well. I really think some of you considering getting the phone not base it off one reviewers opinion

Salis Salman I actually have the Z Force . the battery with the Priv and Z Force are very close together. the Droid does last a little longer but also remember it's not process 7 layers of encryption. The Priv is constantly running checks in the back ground to make sure the phone has not been compromised

Well, I get through the day with it effortlessly. My wife also recently bought one, she changed her iPhone 6 for it, and while she would usually come from work with around 25-35 % battery on the iPhone, on Priv she usually has 55-65 % left. She says (to my surprise because of all of these bad reviews) that battery life is one of the biggest pros of the Priv. And there was one day when she used it very little and she came home with 89 % battery left! With some 11 hours of standby and around half an hour of screen-on time. Regarding performance, I compared them several times while she still had the iPhone in opening various things and Priv came on top in most things. I don't use Snapchat, but Instagram loads faster on Priv than on iPhone 6, Facebook also, WhatsApp, web-page loading is faster as is scrolling and zooming around (I use Opera on Androids, so not sure about Chrome performance), Settings and such apps are also faster etc. Camera is a bit slower to load, but takes better pictures so can't complain. :) I don't really have much use of the front-facing one, if that's important to you, there are better phones. Sure, iP6 is now 2 years old, but they were around the same price at Priv's launch and iP is generally regarded as one of the fastest phones around. While the Priv is certainly not as fast as the Pixel, I wouldn't exactly say it's slow. Plus, Pixel is 750 $, Priv is mostly around 300-350, of course it's slower. It would be stupid to expect the same performance. I still believe that Priv is well on par and even faster than most phones in the 300-ish price range. Where I live that money gets you something like a Galaxy A5 (2016) with Snapdragon 615, only 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage and no QHD screen in sight. So, if you compare the Priv fairly, i.e. to devices in the same price range, I think it's a very good choice.

Silicon like in every computing device.

MrMobile [Michael Fisher] Ohhh. Haha

processor man

"the physical keyboard"? You mean to say there is only one physical keyboard in the world?!

I beg your pardon, sire.

I get that this is a joke but I want to make it clear that MrMobile does not do paid reviews under any circumstances. Also: if I were BlackBerry I'm not sure I would have paid someone for anything after 2:37.

Darnell W. Just cause he mocked a hater using a mocky voice? wow your standards are low lmao

Rishabh Patel fuck off poo