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BlackBerry Priv Android Smartphone Review
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May 30, 2025
Who would have thought that BlackBerry, of all companies, would not only come out with an Android phone -- it runs Android Marshmallow -- but that it would be a really cool phone, one of the slickest Android devices on the market? Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ digs into its features and talks about what makes the BlackBerry Priv so interesting...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm doing something I never thought I'd
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do in 2016 i'm looking at a blackberry
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smartphone and i like it this is this is
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the blackberry prive priv and it's
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really cool it actually runs full
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Android M and you can see here it has
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this sort of wrap around screen just
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like some of the fancy Samsung's do and
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because it's a blackberry you ready for
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this kind of crazy it's a keyboard so
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you can actually pop down an actual key
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keyboard if that makes it better for you
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or if that's something that you more
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prefer or of course you can use it in
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straight Android mode and it's a
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beautiful phone I mean it's a really
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nice bright screen it has all sorts of
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interesting stuff they have what they
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call the dte k or d tech security system
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so it's like an antivirus program that's
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running on the phone the phone randomly
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makes sounds as you can tell actually
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it's a notification coming in oh and
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speaking of notifications this also
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includes something called blackberry hub
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which is cool because it's a one place
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where you get all your text messages and
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incoming phone calls and social media
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updates there's a lot of different stuff
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all centered in one app that comes with
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the prive now let's see this is a 5
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point 4 inch dual curved display with
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gorilla for glass which means it's
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pretty darn tough I've been using it for
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a while and I have no issues with
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scratches or anything it runs at 2560 x
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1440 resolution and this is pretty
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impressive there are 540 pixels per inch
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so this is really really crisp and dense
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and what does that mean in real life it
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means that the text on screen is crisp
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and that makes it much more easy to read
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now this is something where it's hard
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unless you're comparing phones side by
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side but 540 pixels per inch is actually
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a really nice dense
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resolution probably better than your
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printer actually because most printers
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are about 300 DPI and so this is really
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obviously going to work great for things
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like watching a movie but it's also
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going to be great for just reading web
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pages it includes a 3200 milliamp hour
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battery which they say last about 22
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hours of aggressive use which I
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interpret is meaning that probably you
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can go every day or maybe even every
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other day with a charge depending on how
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enthusiastic you are has this is also
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really cool the rear facing camera
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that's an 18 megapixel camera with dual
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flash actually has different coloured
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flashes that it automatically senses
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which to use the Front's only a two
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megapixel so there's nothing to write
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home about that but honestly
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front-facing is what snapchat selfies
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using maybe skype video or something so
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I don't know that those need to be such
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high resolution but the back camera it's
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a beauty take some really nice pictures
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in fact here's an example of a picture I
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just took with this pretty nice huh now
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let's see powering this is the Qualcomm
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I need to look down at my notes this is
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the Qualcomm 8990 to Snapdragon 808 hexa
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core 64 bit adreno 418 I have no idea
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what any of that means but now you know
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now you know the specs right and it also
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is a 600 megahertz GPU so GPU is the
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graphics processor so the long and short
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of it is that this is a lot of
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horsepower it's a really bright light
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phone the keyboards kind of fun though
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of course you always end up with your
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fingerprint right in the middle there's
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probably another technique to doing that
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and they have all sorts of neat things
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they're doing here too so there's a
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little thing on the side that you can
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just pull out that they call the
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productivity tab I don't know that
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that's what I'd call it but the idea is
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that you can put specific things there
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and then you can pull it out and call
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your mom or whatever see so that's
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pretty much everything I want to tell
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you about it I really like this in fact
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this is one of the nicest
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android phones that have had gotten my
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hands on and I'm really surprised by
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that because when I got the blackberry
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preval it's like seriously a blackberry
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well I wasn't even enthused about
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opening the box but it's a really nice
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phone and a really nice Android and it's
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actually on pretty good pricing too
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because if you buy it for example
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through AT&T directly just flat out by
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it it runs six hundred and thirty-nine
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bucks now you can buy it at through am
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AT&T on there what is it 30 month
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program which in which case it runs
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about 21 bucks a month but here's the
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thing go to amazon amazon has his exact
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same phone unlocked ready for AT&T at a
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bunch of other networks for 400 bucks so
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blackberry prive check it out lots of
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information online here's where you can
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go and this is dave taylor and i'm
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really surprised i'm really surprised i
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like this android phone so much so i'll
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catch you in my next video
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you
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