BlackBerry Motion review By Engadget

The BlackBerry t1 was a retro-styled Android powered phone. That seemed like a love letter to the brand's most dedicated fans. The new BlackBerry motion is a little different. It trades the keyboard in the cramped display for a full touchscreen design that has a personality distinct from the Alcatel idol. Knock-Offs we got last year, but how well does the BlackBerry motion actually hold up to scrutiny? Let's take a closer look, but first quick note as we're making this video we're not exactly sure when or even if the BlackBerry motion is going to land in the US. It's available in Canada right now for 600 Canadian dollars, which works out to about four hundred and seventy US dollars.

So I'm going to compare it to other devices in that price range, got it cool. Now, it's a little odd, but I actually dig the BlackBerry. Motion's design is conservative. In that way, blackberries always are, but we're left with a handsome blend of class and aluminum and plastic that comes together surprisingly well. Strangely black brain mobile, rounded the phone's top edge, while leaving the bottom on flat, which gives the motion its own sense of character.

I think the phone looks better than it feels, though the motion sides make the thing feel a bit boxy and utilitarian when you're holding it at least it's rated ip67 for water and dust resistant on the bottom, you'll find the USB-C port and headphone jack, while the volume rocker sleep/wake button and the convenience key are stuck on the phone the right side. Now, if you're anything like me, you're going to find the place for another convenience key a little less than convenient, because it's right, where you'd expect the power button to be the convenience key is even textured. So you can identify it without looking, but it's been almost two weeks and I still sometimes match the wrong button. When I'm trying to wake your phone up, oh and don't bother getting your hopes up, this is definitely not a bezel. This phone there was a lot of space beneath the display for the capacitive navigation keys and the home button.

Fingerprint sensor combo having a cookie home button, is sort of a trip after getting used to phones like the iPhone 10, but it gets the job done and I really appreciate that I just wish the fingerprint sensor wasn't so flaky. It has a hard time idea, my son, when it's even just a little sweaty, let's check out the screen itself, the emotions 5.5 inch display it runs at 1080p, and it features Pleasant if not exactly exciting. Colors viewing angles were pretty good too, and if it sounds like I'm running out of things to say about the screen, you'd be right. It's a perfectly serviceable perfectly unremarkable display same goes for the speaker. Actually it can pump out the jams with decent volume, but audio tends to sound a little thin and lifeless good thing.

There's a headphone jack here. Meanwhile, the software is just what you'd expect from an Android powered blackberry. The motion will feel very familiar if you're coming from the key one from the hub that collects all of your incoming messages into a single inbox to the productivity tab which lets you glance at your calendar. Appointments in to-do lists and then there's our old friend D tech and app that once again rates how secure the motion is at any given time. It hasn't really changed since it debuted on the blackberry print, but it's still useful for managing app permissions, and if not, that crash course into the basics of mobile security, either the convenience key on the right side of the phone didn't work.

The way I expected it to the way the software is set up. If you assign one action to it clicking the key performs said action easy enough. The thing is, you can assign up to three actions to the key and if you do, you'll get a little pop-up window with those shortcuts. Next to the button, it's a neat touch, but it does make me miss the key ones keyboard a bit. You could use just about every button on that thing's keyboard as a convenience.

Key. The only other new software edition of note is a locker feature that lets you securely store. Your sensitive files moving things into the locker is easy enough. Just open up the files app and select some things and hit locked more interesting is how you can snap a photo with the camera using your fingerprint sensor instead of the shutter button. That move sends the resulting shots straight into the locker.

It's great. If you like to shoot, let's say racy photos, but that's not really my speed, it's just as well ?, since the motions, 12 megapixel camera turned out to be a bit of a disappointment under the right conditions. It's capable of producing some relatively impressive, looking photos when the light is anything less than optimal, though it expects some trouble. Your photos are gonna, look either a little underexposed or overexposed, and I'm not entirely sure why an option to focus before capture is disabled by default. It might make the process of taking the photo a little slower, but guys the result almost always looked better in low light performance who colors start to lose their Verve very quickly and focusing can be downright sluggish, sometimes I, honestly expected better from the motions' camera, but as it stands, I think the key one does a better job at photography.

At least the 8 megapixel front-facing camera did leave me with much to complain about with the motion blackberry mobile once again, often to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chipset, with an adrenal 506, GPU and 4 gigabytes of RAM for those keeping cat. Yes, that is one more gig of ram than what you got in the key one anyway. This firmly puts the motion in the mid-range foam bracket, but I never really felt like I was missing out. There was more than enough horsepower here for me to jump between apps like slack and Spotify, and Gmail and Trello during my workday, and gorgeous games like tempest were totally playable if just a little choppy. Sometimes the real star of the show, though, is the emotions, massive 4000 William hour battery.

That's one of the largest we've tested this year, and it routinely kept the phone running for two full days before needing a recharge over quiet weekends. But I wasn't multitasking all the time. I almost got the motion to hit three days off a single charge, guys this is the life so yeah. The motion is actually a pretty good phone for what it is, though, four hundred and seventy dollars feels a little steep phones like the 1 plus 5t and the essential pH one both now go for $499, and they're, both more powerful machines with eye-catching screens and great designs. The trade-off is security, which Blackberry obviously takes it very seriously, and if you do too, the motion might be right for you if it ever gets here.

Ultimately, the motion turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It gets more right than wrong, and it gives me hope that Blackberry, mobile or TCL, or whoever will continue to churn out quality smartphones I'm, just not convinced this is the best smartphone for the price, though, unless you're absolutely obsessed with security or if you want to pay to keep your beloved phone brand alive. The BlackBerry motion is ultimately a good phone that just isn't a very good deal.

Source : Engadget