BlackBerry Motion Review By PhoneArena

This is the new BlackBerry motion. The follow-up is surprisingly well-received key one from earlier this year, though, this model ditches the hardware keyboard and maintains the same software experience, while also bringing some upgrades like water resistance, how Allah compared against the key ones best feature its stellar battery life, I'm Stephen Shaikh with phone arena. Looking into that right now, as I review, the BlackBerry motion, the key one showed us how a modern blackberry based on a custom, Android installation that puts security and communications at the forefront could still connect to it's passed through the positively throwback edition of a hardware qwerty keyboard. But it may be a tacit acknowledgment that many of us have fully embraced the idea of on-screen text entry, BlackBerry's Android adventure continues with a new full touch model. The BlackBerry motion, the motions design isn't far removed from that of other mass-market androids on the phones face. We've got a 5.5 inch display above a pair of capacitive Android buttons surrounding the physical home button, with its integrated fingerprint scanner. The scanner here works fine, but the button itself feels a little off tilting towards the phone's bottom edge.

When pressed speaking of that edge down, there, you'll find the USB type-c port, speaker grille, and the motions analog headphone jack on the left side. There's the combo micro, SD, SIM tray and over on the right are the power and volume controls, as well as the BlackBerry convenience. Key a software definable button. Unlike these flat sides, the motions top edge is curved, an unusual and definitely distinct design decision. Around back, we've got a soft touch slightly textured finish that feels a bit like an aftermarket skin up top there's a phone single lens, 12, megapixel camera and as an extra bonus.

The whole package is now water-resistant. Performance is very middle-of-the-road with the same Snapdragon 625 under the hood as the key one. At least, we got a ram boost up to 4 gigabytes, though our performance tests show this model to come in slightly below its keyboard equipped sibling, possibly due to the higher screen resolution. Here, the motion comes with 32 gigabytes of internal storage expandable via micros. The 5.5-inch LCD screen has a 1080 by 1920 resolution. Looks pretty nice.

Colors are extra bold, if not quite accurate. Thanks to all the over saturation and brightness is adequate. The software here is going to be very familiar to key one fans with the same offerings of BBM, the BlackBerry hub productivity, tab and the light we appreciate having the convenience key back, letting us set up shortcuts to apps, but it would be nice if things like long presses or double taps could call up different apps. Instead, while multi app support is present, it relies on interacting with an on-screen menu. The motion software also includes the privacy shade, which lets you obscure portions, of the screen to keep your info safe from prying eyes.

This one might be a little too paranoid for our tastes, but it's here for you to take advantage of. If you so choose, we wouldn't really expect a best-in-class camera from a blackberry phone. That's just not really the point, and indeed the 12 megapixel main camera on the motion is pretty middle-of-the-road its decent. So long as you don't ask too much out of it. Low-Light and macro performance of some of its weaker areas, but outdoor daytime shots can look quite nice.

Video performance is also ok and, at the very least, offers a nice assortment of filming options up to 30 FPS 4k, the phone speaker isn't particularly loud, but much like the camera. A full-featured multimedia experience isn't really a BlackBerry's goal and, like that Hardware, the audio gear here is functional and satisfactory. The analogue headphone jack remains present and the motion ships with a pair of blackberries, earbuds we've been saving the best for last and that's battery life, a big 4 thousand William hour battery, coupled with that Snapdragon 625 chip spell some serious endurance and in our custom tests the BlackBerry motion managed nearly thirteen and a half hours of screen on time. That's pretty much a reason to get this phone in and of itself recharging takes about two hours with the included adapter like the key one. The BlackBerry motion is a phone that knows what it wants to be.

That means not doing anything special when it comes to imaging or multimedia and instead of focusing on security, productivity and battery life. If that's, where your priorities also lie, the motion can make a lot of sense, but do yourself a favor and also check out the rest of the mid-range market as there's lots of other similar hardware out there for a lot less than you'd spend here. I'm Steven shank with Phone arena thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe for, more review is coming soon.

Source : PhoneArena