BlackBerry Passport SE in 2020: The Biggest BlackBerry Revisited By TechOdyssey

Hey everybody welcome back to tech Odyssey, so today, I'm here with a really cool phone, the BlackBerry passport, SE Edition, so they originally came out with the BlackBerry passport in 2014 they had the black model. Then they came out with a why they came out with the red. This one came out a little later in 2015, and they changed things up a little. You know it's, it's just it's the same phone same keyboard same screen, but they've got this steel frame on it. Of course, it's silver looking and put some texture on the back. All those fancy things.

It really is a nice bonus build well, it's built like a tank, and it looks unique. You really don't see anything like this out in the world today. So what I wanted to do is go ahead and dive in and take a look at it in 2020 and have a look at it just because it's cool device and to you know talk about whether it's still feasible to use today and 2020 if you're still interested in a phone like this now before we get into the video I do want to say if this is your first time stopping by the channel I appreciate you being here, I appreciate you watching. If you enjoy the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button, and if you want updates on the latest, videos hit the little notification bell, so you can get a pop-up when a new video comes out. Now with all that being said, let's take a look at the BlackBerry passport, SE, all right, so the biker a passport SE Edition like I, said it came out about a year later than the original one.

It was actually really cool. At the time I mean the original passport was cool at the time it came out it sold out within six hours, blackberry website, Amazon website gone, so I was glad that I had my order and I got mine, and I was super excited I. So remember that I was at work that day and I actually came home on my lunch break because the FedEx person dropped it off, and I came home, I god I took him back to work and then yeah I was setting up and showed everybody off the phone, and everybody was looking at the phone, and they're like that's a blackberry I'm like yeah. It's a Blackberry and yeah I got a lot of mixed reactions, because the other thing is gigantic: I mean compared to the traditional blackberry with. If you have a smaller keyboard, the smaller screen, and we're talking a three-inch screen versus a foreign half-inch screen I mean there's a lot of fundamental differences, but at the same time it's still uniquely a blackberry.

Now I don't have the largest hands in the world. I've never been able to palm a basketball. I can't really use large phones one-handed, so it really wasn't too much of a transition over to this, but really and truly it's kind of hard to use one-handed, especially since it's got a physical keyboard for the typing and all that good stuff, but gorgeous looking device three row keyboards. It's got the capacitive touch sensitive keyboard system, so this was the very first black race. So a lot of people are familiar with the key one, the key to and the touch screen I started the touch sensitive keyboard.

Well, this is what started it, and you can swipe left and right. You can see a little demonstration there. It was really cool and unique at the time and people that didn't really care for black bears at least a lot of them. That I showed the phone to I show up the keyboard. I showed the stuff they were really impressed, but at the same time they wanted their iPhone.

They wanted their Android phone. I was still you only using BlackBerry 10 devices. Back then I was about the same time. I think is the Galaxy s4 and the iPhone 6 came out at about the same time, so there were still quite a few blackberries out on the market. At that point in time, blackberry 10 was very, very integrated into the enterprise world and business into government.

So a lot of people were still using them, and this gave you a little something extra. It wasn't just the regular blackberry experience. They put a Snapdragon, an eight series, one of the very first series eights snapdragons in it is had three gigabytes of RAM, so it bumped it up. You know the z10 and the q10 had two gigabytes of RAM and a 1.5 gigahertz processor. It was much faster.

It was if e'er the core experience worked out better games, work, better I mean everything across the word. Work across the board work better and then, when it comes to the actual experience itself, so they say- or at least they said Beckett at you know the point in time that ideally for reading books and stuff like that, ideally you wanted to be able to see 66 characters. At the same time, this screen allowed to display up to 60 characters, so it really was geared towards business towards reading towards professionals. It wasn't something that was really marketed heavily towards social media. You never could get Instagram on here.

Whenever the BlackBerry 10 phones, first off launched I mean you couldn't even get Android apps. Now they do have the Android emulation for Android up to 4.3, but it's still very limited, and even to this day I mean you can get some apps. You can go into the Amazon App Store, which is built into it. You can download those you can still side load, some apps, so I was able to get like Spotify to work, speed test a couple other games, it's very, very limited. Anything that requires Google services or advanced API stuff, like Twitter, doesn't even support it anymore, which is kind of frustrating me because 75% of time I'm on the phone I use Twitter.

You can still use the browser on here. It has YouTube it's kind of like a link, there's an icon for, but really it just takes you to the YouTube browser, and it's still usable. So you can still use some core functions and features of the phone. Now all the basic stuff basically still works. The App Store is pretty much a skeleton closet at this point in time.

Now, if you actually had a BlackBerry 10 device, and you had bought, purchased downloaded apps previously, you can still access most of those, even though you can't find them in the store anymore. You can go to your library in the black bear store. You can still find them, so I actually have access to some apps that you can't get anymore so for somebody starting from scratch. Nowadays, I really honestly, wouldn't recommend this phone. Unless you just really want to try it out.

If you use one before you wanted to go back or if you've got an iPhone or an Android. That you're using is a primary phone, and you just want this for, like communication or a nostalgia effect or factor yeah it, it still works, and you can still use it. You can still use the core app functions. You can text, you can make phone calls you can. Furthermore, you can listen to Spotify through the Amazon App Store.

Furthermore, you can download that, and you can use the browser you can see here. The browser is kind of limited, but you can still. You know you can go to Yahoo you go to Amazon, you can go to Best. Buy I mean you can do stuff with it. It's not that it's a complete brick.

It's just that compared to phones that are out nowadays that have the robust app systems there's so much faster. You know, I had a lot of memories of this phone and then going back and using it now it's like well, it's it took like three minutes for Candy Crush to load up after I install it, which I don't want to play. Candy Crush anyway. I just wanted to show it off for the video cut the rope to some other ones. You know it just takes forever load I could be like Yahtzee with buddies was available on the Amazon App Store, and it wouldn't even load, so you're very limited with what you have the ability to use app wise.

So if you go into the experience, knowing that you're going to have very limited functionality, and you just look at it from an email perspective from a texting perspective and a communication tool, it's really nice I've actually had my SIM card, and this one for the last week ever since I got it and I have two SIM cards so like today, I went out to the grocery store or like I. If I want to go, run some errands or if it's on the weekend and I just want to be disconnected its nice having the functionality where you know my mom can go hold me. My wife can get a hold me. Anyone can call me or text me, but at the same time, I'm not sitting there just like fully immersed in my phone all day, long like I'll, sit there on Twitter for an hour or two also different games and have phones that are designed around this kind of experiences now with minimalism and distracted technology and stuff like that. So if you look at it from that perspective- and you just want a phone that functions as a phone but has some still has some business tools, you can still read PDFs.

You can still do all that stuff. Then this right here might still be a great alternative for a second phone for you. If you have a work phone and a personal phone- and you know a long time ago, that used to be a thing I mean when I grew up. My dad had three pages. He had one for the school.

He had one for the military. Furthermore, he had one for the volunteer, fire department might hit three pagers and then he a blackberry, and then he had a work blackberry, and then he had a military blackberry. So there used to be a world that people lived in where he had multiple devices and it kind of all got blended into one over the years, because you know phones can do so much now. So if you still live in a world where you want to have a communication platform, that's solely for work or business related stuff. There maybe still be a place for you, but for most people.

Ninety-eight point: nine, seven, six percent of the population. This really isn't going to help out most people, you're gonna, want to have a newer phone. So that's really kind of limited use case scenarios. I could imagine for something like this, but overall it's still great. It's held up well, the hardware's good.

It's got a thirty 450 ml amp battery, and it's got a 13 megapixel camera. The camera. App is kind of slow and clunky it'll still take pictures, but that's really not why you would want the zone. It's still a nice. It's a good talking piece and pulling this thing out in public people.

Look at your kind of weird whenever you've still got a phone like this, and it was very revolutionary and eye-catching when it first came out, but now in 2020 it's like you really get some questions about that because first they're like what is that and then use how much the BlackBerry, and then they're like black great. So it's kind of like reliving that all over again, but totally I love this phone, and you know compared to the slab world or the world that we live in now, I mean whenever you talk about touchscreen phones and all these gigantic platforms that we have they all kind of look the same. You just have this big screen. You have a case on it. This is something that really stands out.

It's unique! It's gorgeous! Furthermore, it's well-built! Furthermore, it's just something: that's kind of lost in phones nowadays, because nobody I'm, not gonna, say people, don't try and design nice-looking phones, but at the end of the day, all you're seeing is a screen and then whatever the back of the phone is so the right here clearly is not going in a case, and it is what it is. So, of course there are the dangers of dropping and scratching and all that stuff. But it's got this nice textured back on it. It was a great improvement over the original one that was just the smooth back and I really did drop it a couple of times so great updates on the SE over the original version and yeah. This is it so if this is something you're interested in they're very, very hard to find, you can only find them on resale.

Fortunately, I had a friend of mine that sent this to me. He had it, and I've made so many blackberry videos lately, of course, I've been making them for a long time. A very first ever YouTube video was Anna mocks and unboxing video of the BlackBerry key one when it first came out, so he actually sent this to me for free, and I was like you know, dude. You can sell this thing on eBay, and he's like no, no, it's its better off in your hands. I want you to have it.

So thank you grant I appreciate it. I'll put a link to his channel. He actually makes videos as well, but gave this to me, which is the only reason that I have it. I couldn't bring myself to go and spend the money to buy one because people that sell them on resell they want too much money for them. These are hard to find and the other Blackberry passport is five six-year-old phone now, so do you really want to spend two or three four or five hundred dollars on one of these devices? It's not anything.

I can really recommend at this point, but overall totally loved this phone. It's a really iconic piece of technology, and I'm glad that I have one again to go with my black break collection. So thanks for watching the video guys, I appreciate it. This is something a little different from what I've traditionally done when it comes to like reviews and things like that on phones, but I like blackberries and I, really want to be able to make some videos to show you guys what these phones look like and what they can do. You know down the road where we're at now in 2020.

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