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Blackberry Priv early impressions: This is not a very good phone Poor camera, battery life, and build: Welcome to Blackberry's first Android phone.
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Nov 6, 2015 23:37
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Arse Tehnical posted:The rear of the Priv is covered in a strange surface that provides great grip, but isn't properly attached to the surface underneath. first-party grip tape fix
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Nov 6, 2015 23:40
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infernal machines posted:Blackberry Priv early impressions: This is not a very good phone everything you hated in an android, now in the phone that your boss made you buy
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Nov 7, 2015 02:24
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incredible build quality
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Nov 7, 2015 02:28
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reminder, this phone costs $950 canadian pesos. that's over $710 ameros
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Nov 7, 2015 03:40
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if you have one and you paid for it then there's no saving you
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Nov 7, 2015 04:01
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Nintendo Kid posted:Mrs. Simpkins' junior year Waterloo High newspaper team assisted on the latest Blackberry campaign it looks like some mid-90s toronto design firm that disappeared up a very '90s wired magazine rear end in a top hat got dragged into the present like encino man and has just completely failed to adapt
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Nov 7, 2015 04:10
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flakeloaf posted:if you have one and you paid for it then there's no saving you SneakyFrog posted:I ordered a drat Priv, here in the blackberry thread I confess my shame.
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Nov 7, 2015 20:13
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lmao
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Nov 7, 2015 20:24
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950 dollars lol should've called it the blackberry privy cause that's where it belongs
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Nov 7, 2015 22:07
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Antlerhill posted:950 dollars lol
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Nov 7, 2015 22:51
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Kenny Logins posted:more like privvy  >
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Nov 7, 2015 22:56
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http://ca.blackberry.com/campaigns/portraits-of-privacy/bryan-adams.html
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Nov 9, 2015 14:18
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protecting the privacy of people nobody cares about what is this even a commercial for, i'm so confused
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Nov 9, 2015 14:31
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"Let me tell you about privacy" [sells unrelated yet equally undesirable product] "WE'RE THE
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Nov 9, 2015 14:41
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I'm the unreadable overlay text 
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Nov 9, 2015 15:42
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i too wish that the album he made 25 years ago was kept private forever
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Nov 9, 2015 15:47
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minivanmegafun posted:I'm the unreadable overlay text lol
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Nov 9, 2015 17:00
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is bleckbarry committing to maintaining the OS for some firm period of time or are you going to let this poo poo rot after 6 months like every other android oem?
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Nov 10, 2015 17:18
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:is bleckbarry committing to maintaining the OS for some firm period of time or are you going to let this poo poo rot after 6 months like every other android oem? what does your heart tell you? a) will bby even be around in a year? b) if no, who else would bother to support it? c) when has bby bothered to release major updates for any of their other phones? d) even if they're still around, do you think they're going to be backporting fixes from next years android "poo poo sandwich"
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Nov 10, 2015 18:06
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they were actually good about maintaining security patches on the old BBOS stuff (because it was a tightly controlled OS/hardware) and they could in theory come at android with that angle to get gov/big business contracts to secure revenue since nobody is doing that for real besides apple. I think it really hinges on if they can stay afloat for another year to prove some kind of commitment rather than making GBS threads out a new model every 3 months and moving on
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Nov 10, 2015 21:05
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that post took more thought than bbry put into this. the entire phone is "hey people want apps, maybe also a keyboard. ship it."
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Nov 10, 2015 23:07
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use case for the priv: that one exec who is still using this five year old hateful piece of poo poo phone because he absolutely had to have a physical keyboard
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Nov 11, 2015 21:04
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:use case for the priv: that one exec who is still using this five year old hateful piece of poo poo phone because he absolutely had to have a physical keyboard lol the droid pro. i remember josh topolski on the engadget podcast back when it was announced saying that it was going to be his next device b/c he wanted a portrait qwerty phone with an iphone quality screen and camera running anroid. then they reviewed it and even topolski had to admit that it was, as you say, a hateful piece of poo poo come to think of it, the priv is his ideal phone: portrait slider qwerty running anroid with iphone 3gs quality camera. god is that guy a smug piece of poo poo
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Nov 12, 2015 13:20
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:is bleckbarry committing to maintaining the OS for some firm period of time or are you going to let this poo poo rot after 6 months like every other android oem? they have committed to monthly security updates for whatever thats worth ofc it ships one android version out of date so
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Nov 12, 2015 16:11
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Nelson MandEULA posted:god is that guy a smug piece of poo poo luckily his career cratered when he got fired from Bloomberg. though I'm sure he's working on some piece of poo poo alternative site right now.
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Nov 12, 2015 18:56
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Nelson MandEULA posted:god is that guy a smug piece of poo poo well, he did write 'pistolwhip'
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Nov 12, 2015 18:57
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LastInLine posted:they have committed to monthly security updates for whatever thats worth this is what i was talking about earlier. are they going to be backporting fixes from multiple releases ahead in perpetuity? are they just going to start writing their own patches and fixes for vulnerable libraries (lol)?
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Nov 12, 2015 19:00
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infernal machines posted:this is what i was talking about earlier. are they going to be backporting fixes from multiple releases ahead in perpetuity? are they just going to start writing their own patches and fixes for vulnerable libraries (lol)? The pattern of late seems to be that they just create a new device and OS when they get buried in bugs and defects that take too much time to fix. The Playbook had a major issue were if you plugged the micro USB cable in the wrong way it would brick the device.
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Nov 12, 2015 20:49
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infernal machines posted:this is what i was talking about earlier. are they going to be backporting fixes from multiple releases ahead in perpetuity? are they just going to start writing their own patches and fixes for vulnerable libraries (lol)? there is precedence for backporting security fixes as google publishes current security fixes for the lollipop variant of the nexus 6 because att refuses to allow the marshmallow update for their customers ofc blackberry will be the ones in charge of doing this but from what i can tell the security updates arent touching things that require an os version bump to fix and all of the updates have been in the 2-8mb range so far so i think its mostly replacing a few system files here and there and generating a new checksum for the bootloader to verify against
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Nov 12, 2015 21:28
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Bonzo posted:The pattern of late seems to be that they just create a new device and OS when they get buried in bugs and defects that take too much time to fix. And if it ran out of battery it would brick the device as well
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Nov 12, 2015 21:40
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LastInLine posted:they have committed to monthly security updates for whatever thats worth non-contract phones are getting updates straight from google, but contract ones get middlemanned by the carriers and that worries the poo poo out of me
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Nov 12, 2015 22:13
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:non-contract phones are getting updates straight from google, but contract ones get middlemanned by the carriers and that worries the poo poo out of me are they? google doesnt even handle the updates for their android one poorphones anymore so id like to see something saying that google would handle the software for this device oems have always done the software for their own devices and this certainly isnt a developer device like the original droid or xoom and its not a gpe device so why would google handle it?
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Nov 12, 2015 22:27
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Bonzo posted:The pattern of late seems to be that they just create a new device and OS when they get buried in bugs and defects that take too much time to fix. . i got a free playbook back in the day by being a "developer" (porting some lovely AIR apps) and for at least a year after the playbook's release, devs still had no access to the device's gps, accelerometers, compass, or even the camera tools not toys
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Nov 12, 2015 22:35
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what a hilariously dated product the playbook is now. remember how one of its main marketing features was "you can access flash websites!!!"?
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Nov 12, 2015 22:37
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you should have waited
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Nov 12, 2015 22:50
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Sagebrush posted:what a hilariously dated product the playbook is now. remember how one of its main marketing features was "you can access flash websites!!!"? Sync your email from your phone (no native mail protocols supported)
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Nov 12, 2015 23:01
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did a quick search for "blackberry playbook" on eBay original MSRP : 16GB was $499, 32GB and 64GB were $599 and $699 respectively now ? you're lucky to get $50 bucks
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Nov 12, 2015 23:07
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buttcrackmenace posted:did a quick search for "blackberry playbook" on eBay Employee pricing is $30.
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Sagebrush posted:what a hilariously dated product the playbook is now. remember how one of its main marketing features was "you can access flash websites!!!"?
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