BlackBerry Motion vs BlackBerry KEYone: User Experience By UTB Networks

Hey folks, this is UTP Brad from UTP blogs and the very last time I was on here. Talking to you about blackberry. It was when I was doing the unboxing on my brand spanking new BlackBerry motion from blackberry mobile now, I said at that point, I was going to put away my beloved key one, and I was going to just use the BlackBerry motion, as my daily driver did I do it, and why did I think about it? Let's find out. So the question is: did I trade in my blackberry key one for my blackberry motion now putting aside the blackberry key one for me was extremely difficult: I am a physical keyboard. Guy I love physical keyboards, never really been a fan of the slab and typing on glass. Although I did it on my z10 and I.

Did it on my Leap, but to trade in what I think is the most perfect BlackBerry physical keyboard on what's gotta, be the nicest design phone I've ever used was extremely difficult, but I promised I would do that and I did so since I have got my blackberry motion. I have stuck with the BlackBerry motion I the first few days. I may have creeped back to Mikey one. You know, as part of the setup did I get this email address over there. I need this that I saved on that, but I can promise you for the last few weeks.

I have not touched the BlackBerry key one. This is the first time. I've really touched the key one and quite some time, and let me tell you it still feels perfect in my hands. I absolutely love this phone. If you've heard me talk, you know that I've said that this is the best BlackBerry I've ever owned.

You've probably heard me say that I think this is the best designed blackberry phone I've ever owned, and you've, probably just heard me, say how much I love this phone and I do now head over to the BlackBerry motion. I have to be honest. The overall experience is pretty close. You know the operating system is the same and now recently with the newest updates to the BlackBerry key one, a few of those apps that we got on the 'black emotion that wasn't on the key one there now on the key one. So as far as your operating system experience between the two they're, nearly identical the difference comes in and the form factor.

Of course. That should be no surprise to anybody. It's no surprise to me and that's kind of what I figured my issue would be because I am such a physical keyboard guy I kind of imagined that I would go running back to the key one, even in the first few weeks of using the motion. I really thought that by the end of my little test, I'd be running back to the key one. So here I am today, I've got both phones in my hands, I feel totally able and capable and I, don't think I would be doing anybody a disservice if I just jumped back to the key one and I have to tell you holding it in my hands kind of makes me want to.

But first, let's go over just a few of the things on the phone. I got to be honest when I started this video I had no intention of doing any of this close-up stuff. I thought I would just run through it really quick and get my overall opinion, but since I'm here, I figured I might as well. Do it because really the difference between these two phones is entirely form factor, and that is entirely design. Of course, we've got your full slab.

Touchscreen phone there's really not much going on the front, except for this click fingerprint home button, and then we have the key one, which is blackberry right. There's no mistaking this anybody, that's not a blackberry fan when they saw this phone. They would know that this is a blackberry. Why? Because of that keyboard because of the candy bar shape, it's not some keyboard phone, that's landscape! No! This is the classic blackberry keyboard and a lot of what I love about this phone is the fact this is the classic blackberry that nobody's going to mistake this for anything else. I like carrying this around I like people, seeing it I like it when people come up and go, is that a Blackberry? Those still exists, because the minute they do that I'm going to tell them that? Yes, they still exist, I'm, going to show them everything on this phone.

But this phone really is a tool right. It's got the physical keyboard that is just unmatched. It has. Furthermore, it has this level of accuracy that you will not get anywhere else and, honestly completely honest here: I'm really liking this blackberry motion, I love the feel of it and there's certain design things that I want to go over, which is why we're in the close-up here, however, I even now, and not as accurate on this phone as I am on the key one. I'm, just not, and I really don't know if I'm going to be, but I'll talk about that after this little section.

So looking at these phones, this, of course, is the space black key one. It's got the little AT&T logo on it, which is really the only bad part of this phone. I love the design of this phone. I love the huge cameras around on it: I love the keyboard, I love everything about the design of this phone, I love that the sides are curved, and it feels so good in the hand. It feels like a tool that you are getting work done right exactly what a blackberry should be.

Moving over to the motion, I have to, be honest: I, like the camera better on the key one than I do on the motion. This just seems a little small I, like the fact that this looks so large, and I'm not talking about the quality. The photos I'll go over that and another video review at some point, the backs of the phones. They both feel great they're, both tacky. You are not afraid of this sliding out of your hands on either phone.

Now what I love about the sides of the key one? Are these rounded edges right, and they're so comfortable in your hand? Now the motion has flat edges and here's the thing. The key one is much more comfortable in the hand. It really is. It just feels better, but the motion feels nicer. I, don't know how to explain it or why it's that way, but it just feels fancier in the hands.

Maybe it's the metal that it's made out of. It's got this flat, edging with the beveled sides and I love the fact that it's not flat all the way around right. It makes this you flat sheet and then the top curves up on the top I just I love that little design cue, that they did there and then the top just folds. All the way over this phone feels much nicer in the hand. It's the key one is more comfortable, but the motion feels like a like: a higher quality object in the hand it really does, and then I can't explain why.

But it do I really thought. I was going to have an issue with having all the buttons on one side and to be honest, if the first I had a little of an issue, but not why you think, because the convenience key I it's its got this texture to it. I, don't think, there's been a single time, I've reached for the convenience key and not got the convenience key at the same time, the power button. It feels right if that's where it belongs. So these two buttons are great, and I have no issues there.

What I do run into issues with believe it or not? Is the volume rocker it just fills a little high on the phone I wish that everything would have been moved down a little. Maybe the power button further down below the convenience key and the volume rocker a little lower down. I really don't know, but I thought I was gonna, have some huge issues with having all the buttons on one side, and that has not been an issue. The fingerprint scanner works great. It is easily just as good as the key one, which has always been great I.

Do wish that it wasn't a button. I wish it was capacitive and there's something that I've discovered. That kind of solves that issue. For me that I'll do in one of my other videos later on, but for now I'm just going to say that I wish that that button didn't click I wish it was capacitive, because when you've got like this thing keeps turning on. I should have should have turned it off before the video, but when you've got the capacitive other keys, and then you got this button to push down, it does kind of pose confusion for me sometimes, if I was going to score, these phones simply on design, and I'm.

No designer I have you know no education in this? No training I just know what I like, but if I was going to grade both of these phones strictly on design, I think the key one has my vote: it is, and I'm biased, I'm completely biased. It is the classic blackberry. It really is with that keyboard and the shape and that I keep saying that the surround around the camera. I love that I love- and this is gonna- be hard to see on the space black, but I love that they didn't just cut the frets off, as they did on pretty much every BlackBerry we've ever seen before the frets dig into the side of this border and I love that little tiny thing that they did there. It just looks like quality so for just purely physical design.

I have to give it to the key one, just because there's so many slabs out there's so many just flat glass phones that I can't, I can't say that the motion is better designed. I. Just can't do that I'm too biased, but I will tell you a little story. I've been going to the movies a lot and I go to a theater here, this local to me and I buy my tickets online I, it's a galaxy theater, and you buy your tickets through the app, and it puts up a little code that they scan. So you get a code, you take your phone in you, go to the teenager, that's running that booth, and you hand them your phone, and they scan it and your ticket pops out, and you go to your theater.

That's that's how it works at these at this theater now the whole time I've been doing that I've had my key won, and I've taken my key one and me: don't just scan because you can. You can scan your phone in front of it, but I hand it over, because I want people to ask about it and there's been several times with several kids, where they've taken my phone, and they've. Given it a second look right, they've looked at it, and you can see that they don't know what it is. A lot of these kids that work, the theater, probably solely young they've, never seen a blackberry in person before around here in the middle of iPhone land, but they've never always said anything I've gotten. Some double takes, that's about it.

I went in about a week ago to see a movie and I did the same thing. I've always done except this time. Furthermore, I had the BlackBerry motion and I handed it over to this kid who, you know, sees hundreds of phones a day right, and he scanned it real quick, and he did the double tape that I'm used to seeing with the key one. But then he stopped, and he told me he's like buddy, that's a nice phone right, and I was shocked to hear it, because I hadn't heard that for so long with the key one now I mean honestly I. Don't care what these kids think, because I can guarantee you.

This key one runs circles around well in their pocket, but it was shocked me that they looked at the motion, and they said it was a nice phone and of course you know, I went into my blackberry spill, but I was shocked at the reaction. I got over the motion compared to the key one. Now, as I said, I'm a blackberry guy and Cheerily on design. Surely on looks I'm giving it to the key one. But this kid who is obviously the market? The phone companies are looking for.

He jumped right on this, and it's probably a kid that seen Mikey one over and over. To be honest, so you got a score one to the motion for that. So here is the question. Today is the last day because I'm making this video of my first time on the motion today is the day that I can go back to using Mikey 1 as my primary device. I love the key one I absolutely positively love the key one, there's no denying that, but I think I'm.

Staying on the motion, the experience you get on these two phones is very close to each other, while I have it focused on the phones. I should have talked about, and I should have shown the screens, because, of course, there's should come as no surprise to anybody that the BlackBerry key one screen is smaller than the motion. Now there was never a day that I thought the BlackBerry key 1 screen was too small. I really think it's the perfect size for that phone and I never had a problem. Seeing anything.

I never had a problem with any apps working on it and a crazy sort of way like we used to on like the passports or the classics. I never had any issues with the screen, and that was coming from a proof. You know the precis, a larger screen and I went to a smaller screen and was not a problem ever anybody, that's getting the key one. Thinking that the screen is too small. There's nothing to be afraid of.

It is a great sized screen, but at the same time the motion screen is just so nice now you know I believe it's the same type of screen, I'm not gonna, go into any details about dpi or anything of that nature, because I don't have those numbers in front of me, and I'm afraid to say something that's wrong, but going from the key one screen to the motion screen. It just feels kind of luxurious right, never had a problem on the key one screen, but it's nice to have that larger screen. As I said before, I am much more accurate on the BlackBerry key one, there's no denying that, and I don't know if I will ever reach that level of accuracy. On the BlackBerry motion, however, I am a lot faster on the BlackBerry motion than I am on the key one. So it's kind of a trade-off.

You've got speed on the motion. You have accuracy on the key one. What's more important and that's going to be an individual question for everybody. Everybody's going to have a different answer to that and the whole time I was on Mikey. One I would have 100% of the time said.

Accuracy is more important than speed. I would have argued that I'm on the motion, and it doesn't seem like that. Much of a trade-off. To be honest, you know I type, really fast on the motion. I, don't really use the flicking.

I didn't really use the flicking on the key one: either I, just type I like I've, always typed, like I typed back before there was a such thing as flicking on a blackberry. So it's all about getting words on the page right and how many times do you hit backspace and how fast can you get that reply in and right now, at this point in my life, it's more important to me to get that reply out fast than it is to be accurate. Every single time and I would have laughed and pointed fingers and joked about that. If someone else had told me that just a few months ago jumping to the motion and actually using it that way, I've discovered it's not that big of an issue to me hitting the backspace a few times, but getting the message out faster works for me, it may not work for you. The fill of the phones, like I, said before the key one feels like a tool.

The motion feels luxurious, and I know that's kind of a backwards sort of thing, because the motion is come out as a less expensive phone than the key one came out, but that's just how they feel to me. That's how it seems to me at the same time and I think because of what I love so much the physical keyboard I feel like the key one needs to be protected. I've had a case on Mikey once both of them since I got them and the cases didn't come off. I always carried my phone in a case and I had a couple of different cases. My motion has never been in a case and I, don't feel the need to write, and I really think it's, because it's missing that keyboard.

There's less that, in my mind, thinks is going to break, and it just doesn't feel like it needs the protection that the key one did it's a much lighter phone I carry my phone with me all day, long in a pocket, and it really is a lighter phone there's, no denying that it's a lighter phone, and it should be a lighter phone. It doesn't have all the hardware in it that the key one does it don't have that physical keyboard, it's more comfortable to carry I'm, really shocked at this point, and I'm sitting here, and I'm justifying, and I'm thinking about all the things that I would have been about just a couple of weeks ago. I'm really surprised to say that I am going to be staying on the BlackBerry motion. I gave a bunch of reasons why I still got my key one I can go back at any time, so I don't have to be worried about that. But the BlackBerry motion just feels like a better daily carry for me.

Now. We've done lots of videos and reviews and whatnot on the key one, and I've got a bunch of them planned for the BlackBerry motion. There's a lot of little fun things that I've discovered, there 's's a lot of little tricks, there's even things that have been out a little longer that I didn't really use on the key one that I'm now using on the motion, and I'm going to do a series of short videos about those I planned on this. Being a really short video, but I like to talk apparently, so this is UTV bread, my forced trial, I, don't even want to say that, because I was so excited to get the motion and of course, I wanted to use it. Who wouldn't but I, really thought the whole time that I was giving the motion a trial.

I would be raging to get it back on my key one, I wasn't I'm not, and I'm, not going back on. I'm going to be staying on my motion for the time being anyway, so this is Brad signing off. Thanks for watching we'll see you next time with some more fun from the BlackBerry motion.

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