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BlackBerry Priv review: Android fixes the OS, but the hardware can’t compete
- jimrandomh 11y agoThe main differentiating factor is that this phone has a slide-out keyboard in portrait orientation. That's not for everyone, but it is something I miss greatly and could see myself picking based on. The review points out that an on-screen keyboard is bigger, but that's not really the point - with an onscreen keyboard you can't learn to type by feel, you always have to look at it. (On the other hand, the sliding/Swype style for onscreen keyboards is pretty nice, and definitely narrows the gap between physical thumb keyboards and onscreen ones.)
- godzillabrennus 11y agoThis will be the last blackberry phone. They were crushed.
- kchoudhu 11y agoDid anyone else see the phone and think "Dell Venue Pro"?
- walterbell 11y agoIs RIM using different hardware suppliers for the Passport flagship vs. this Android device? If RIM could license their combination keyboard+trackpad technology, Logitech and other mobile keyboards would benefit. E.g. the iPad Pro keyboard needs touch navigation to reduce the traversal distance needed for common screen-button-presses.
- on_and_off 11y agohttp://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1-1-2-980x653.jpg http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1-1-2-... Interesting. An physical keyboard does indeed look not that useful against a big phone. I would be curious to try it out, but I doubt that just tactile feedback is enough to offset the fact that these buttons are really tiny. Maybe that a physical keyboard would work better in landscape ?