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BlackBerry Priv Review

    See other variants reviews Score: 69.7 / 100

BlackBerry Priv is a fascinating Android cellphone, featuring a pretty big 5.4-inches multi-touch display, an extremely fast 1800 megahertz CPU, an 18 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 2 megapixels front facing camera.

Blackberry decided to equip this cellphone with an extremely powerful 1800 MHz processor, packed into a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 MSM8992 chip with a great 3 GB RAM. A good point of the BlackBerry Priv is its 32 GB huge internal memory and an SD memory card expansion slot, allowing the user to store hundreds of apps without even thinking about filling it.

Apparently Blackberry forgot about optimizing the weight in this 6.77 oz cellphone. Although this cellphone is just 5.79 inches long, it's still able to fit a a 5.4 inches display. This phone has a beautiful design, with a thickness of just 0.37 inches.

This phone features two cameras, an 18 megapixels back facing camera and a 2 MP front camera. This cellphone can also capture 4K 3840x2160 videos at 30 fps, and slow-motion videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD) up to 60 fps. In addition, this cellphone's camera also counts with some useful features like flash, face detection shooting, optical image stabilization and geo tagging.

Blackberry equipped this phone with an awesome 5.4 inches display, and a resolution of 2560 x 1440 (Quad HD / 2K), which makes it impossible to even see the pixels that compose the display. Its display uses AMOLED capacitive technology, and can detect multiple fingers at the same time.

This phone features a 3410 mAh great non-replaceable battery that provides this cellphone an extremely long battery duration. An issue to consider is that this cellphone's battery is not removable so you can't change it when it starts to have trouble holding its charge, though with such a huge battery size you will probably discard this cellphone before that happens.

This device includes WiFi capability (but it can't be provided to other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE-A , the fastest connection type and the fastest 3G connectivity, using HSPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. The BlackBerry Priv uses a Nano SIM card to use GSM services.

The BlackBerry Priv also features many cool features like Wireless charging system, NFC (Near Field Communication), Bluetooth (allows communication with other bluetooth cellphones and accessories) and GPS Geolocation, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This cellphone may not be a very good choice considering it costs $ 280, and many similar cellphones can be found for less money. No matter whether you want a cellphone to play games, you love taking photographs, are looking for a work phone or will use it as a social cellphone, you will probably love this cellphone.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Blackberry
Operating System (OS):Android 5.1
Variant:See other variants reviews
Also Known As:BlackBerry STV100-1
Dimensions:5.79 x 3.04 x 0.37 inchesMetric14.71 x 7.72 x 0.94 cmImperial
Weight:6.77 ouncesMetric191.93 gImperial
Scratch Resistant Glass:Yes
Price:$ 280.00

Display

Screen Type:AMOLED (16M colors)
Size:5.4 inchesMetric13.7 cmImperial
Resolution:1440 x 2560 pixels (Quad HD / 2K)
Pixel density:544 pixels per inchMetric214.17 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 MSM8992
Processor:ARM Cortex-A57 and ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit (Single-Core 1800 MHz)
RAM Memory:3 GB (933 MHz)
Graphics Processor:Adreno 418
Internal Memory:32 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 1,95 TB)

Battery

Removable:No
Capacity:3410 mAh
Wireless Charging:Yes

Camera

Back camera:18 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.20
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:2 megapixels
Max video resolution:3840 x 2160 (30 fps) (4K)
Max slow motion video:1920 x 1080 (60 fps) (Full HD)
Camera features:Face Detection Shooting, Geo Tagging and Optical Image Stabilization

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
SIM Card Type:Nano SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:700 (band 12), 700 (band 17), 700 (band 29), 800 (band 20), 850 (band 5), 1700/2100 (band 4), 1800 (band 3), 1900 (band 2), 2100 (band 1), 2300 WCS (band 30), 2600 (band 7)
UMTS Bands:800, 850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:LTE-A (4G), HSPA, HSUPA, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.1
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor