BlackBerry Leap Review 2020: The Last BB10 Device By TechOdyssey

Everybody welcome back to tech Odyssey, so today, I'm here with a unique video and I, want to take a look back at a phone. A lot of people don't even know exists the BlackBerry leap, so one of the things that Blackberry did when they had their BlackBerry 10 devices was they threw a couple of different phones out there towards the end of their lifespan before they decided to terminate, connects and move on to their Android device, which is the prim and ultimately, the licensing agreements that were spurred off at the end of their lifespan. Well, here we are, with the BlackBerry leap, effectively a very large blackberry z10, which went from having a 4.2-inch screen to a 5-inch screen with the exact same internals, but there never really were a lot that were produced, and it wasn't a very successful phone, but I do want to go ahead and talk about it and dive in and take a closer look now in 2020 now before we get into that. I do want to say that if this is your first time stopping by the channel, I appreciate it. If you enjoy the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bill. If you want updates on the latest videos when they come out now, let's take a look at the leaked.

So before we get into the BlackBerry leap, it's important to understand some of the things that were going on technology in 2014 and the beginning of 2015, so BlackBerry 10 came out in 2013, and they released their very first phone, the blackberry z10. It was a departure from the keyboard. It was a successor to the blackberry storm which was utterly terrible, and they went back to the drawing board and this phone got bumped back and bumped back and bumped back, because blackberry 10 wasn't ready yet, and I actually had waited for so long. I went ahead, and I bought the Samsung Galaxy s3. Thinking that the new BlackBerry 10 was never going to come out, I waited for so long.

Six months after my I get my Samsung Galaxy, s3 I was able to finally get my hands on the z10 I, totally loved it other than the fact that there were no third-party apps or available that were worth anything so enter. Blackberry, 10, 4.2, inch screen, 720p resolution, 8, megapixel, camera 2, megapixel, selfie, camera on the front, 16 gigabytes of storage, 2 gigabytes of RAM on paper. It has the recipe for success. In the year 2013, the iPhone was still rocking a 4-inch screen, and they weren't too far out ahead, yet that this phone wasn't possibly a contender to get blackberry back on the market a little. Well, as 24 2013 progress turned into 2014, the Z tens will return in droves.

They really didn't do all that. Well, so 2014 was a big year when it came to phones, they had the Samsung Galaxy s4. They had the iPhone 6, which finally adopted the larger phone model and then also brought in the plus model. Lg was firing on all cylinders with the g3 and then the passport came out. So there was a lot of exciting things going on in the phone world, and then you enter January 2015, and you get the BlackBerry leap now.

The z10 was never really all that attractive outside the initial people that bought it. So what happens in the phone world is a year or two later people expect a new phone to come out. Well, nobody wanted a phone with the point.2-inch screen anymore. Everyone has moved into the phablet world 5-inch screens or higher with reduced bezels and blackberries answer was the BlackBerry leap. So it didn't really leap too far because as soon as it came out, the gate it already had two-year-old specs, mostly the difference between these e10 and the leap, is the fact that the phone is bigger.

It has a larger screen, they have the exact same internals, it has the same front facing camera. It has the same. Primary shooter has the same processor, the same memory. Everything is the same except for the screen size and, of course, the battery, because it needed a larger battery other than that, you could basically call this the z10 plus. Now it wasn't technically a bad phone, and it was only like two hundred and seventy-nine dollars American when it came out, so it wasn't trying to compete with the newer, more expensive, flashy, her flagship phones that were out.

It was just trying to expand the marketplace share that BlackBerry 10 devices had and in hopes that maybe this would pick up in areas outside the US or Canada, and since it was so low of a price point, people would hopefully adopt it and unfortunately that didn't really happen. This was the last true new model phone, the blackberry, the manufactured under the BlackBerry 10 operating system. It came with the latest and greatest blackberry. Ten point three point: two or if, depending on region, some people say ten dots 3.2, but the overall craftsmanship and the design on this phone is actually really nice. It's got this nice dimpled back on.

It is very rugged. Furthermore, it's got a rubberized feel to it with the glass it extends across the entire top of the phone. You have the LED flash. You have the 8 megapixel camera. It says right there, of course, 8 megapixels with autofocus.

It has the really cool, looking blackberry font that they use, and then you can see the BlackBerry logo is here right: smack dab in the middle of the phone. Furthermore, it was charged by a microUSB. You even got the speaker down here on the back, which was uncharacteristic of blackberry phone at the time which had front-facing speakers, so they did a lot of cool things with it. It's very rugged. It looks leak.

Furthermore, it still has the top power button, it has the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack up top, and then you have the front-facing selfie camera there, which of course is 2 megapixels, like I had mentioned so BlackBerry 10 all fun, swipe gestures. Furthermore, it was a really cool operating system. At the time I thought it was perfect. It was very effective. It was really efficient.

You could do everything. All you had to do is just swipe up to get to the home screen you could swipe up and over. You could use what was called the peak feature. Even with other BlackBerry 10 devices. You had the pop-up notifications, for you could reply to messages, which was something that actually iPhone and the Apple operating system iOS and Android adopted later on so blackberry.

It's funny. It was criticized so harshly back in the day for having this off swipe gesture platform, and now we here we are in 2020 with Android 10, and it's full swipe gesture support. So you swipe up to close apps you swipe up and over to get to where your app menus are at. You have the pop-up notifications, which of course, have been around for a long time, but a lot of these things were already existing on BlackBerry 10 before they ever came out on Apple or Android. So there was a lot of things going on.

It was just the lack of adoption and the app support. It wasn't cool. Furthermore, it wasn't flashy, you could never watch at Netflix. You could never get a native Instagram client, and it was perfect at being efficient. It was great at being a communication platform.

You had all of your stuff assembled into one area within the hub, which today still works well on the BlackBerry 10 devices, so it wasn't that they didn't try, or they didn't make a good product it. Just by that point in time, with the BlackBerry leap that ship had sailed. Overall, it's a nifty little device. I wanted one a long time ago, because I had the other Blackberry phones, yeah I had the z10 I still had my original one, which I showed the video I had several cute ends: I had the classic I had the passport I had the z30, so I always wanted this. To add to my collection and I found it the other day on eBay I bought it brand new for like 75 bucks, and it's cool I've had some fun playing with it.

It really doesn't work very well more outside the core functions. The browser is pretty much broken. The app store is pretty much gutted. You can't buy anything on there anymore. Fortunately, I still have a bunch of apps that I downloaded a long time ago, so they're still available in my library, but you can't even get those anymore, so I had some fun times going down memory lane playing like my Kiwi Wonder game and a couple of other things that were on there, but by and large it's basically an ineffective device.

At this point you can still use it for texting. You can still use it for phone calls. You still get your 4G signal. The browser hasn't been updated and so long, it's very slow with loading things, especially when it comes to like gifts, those won't even work really, so you can still access something like Twitter and Facebook via the browser, but they're very, very limited, and it's slow and clunky. But the native apps that are on here still work.

Okay, it's nothing that I would recommend to anyone nowadays for using, but I just wanted to take some time and show off this phone, because I always thought that it was cool. I always wanted one. Just as part of my collection- and here we are with the BlackBerry leap in 2020, so hopefully you've enjoyed the video, hopefully you've, liked the trip down memory lane and an opportunity to look at this device that a lot of people don't know existed or have never got an opportunity to see one even if they knew about it. So that's all I've got if you have any questions or comments, please feel free leave them down in the comment section I'll get back with you. If you enjoyed the video like I said in the beginning, please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bell.

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