 We are all the way in New York. I can't believe I'm here again. This is my third trip here this month Doing an unboxing that nobody asked for of a product that as far as I'm aware Nobody asked for this is the BlackBerry Motion the latest in the lineup of BlackBerry smartphones produced under license by TCL So on the surface this appears to be pretty much. I like this table. You got like a look at that It's like authoritative BAM So on the surface this thing doesn't appear to be really much of anything special. It's got a Snapdragon What would it what is it a 625 processor? It's got 4 gigs of RAM. Let's fire this baby up It's got 32 giga bytes or if you're more of the French persuasion 32 giga octet so you got that going for you Android 7.1 Nuget a 5.5 inch full HD display with a premium Nano-diamond coated display You got a sim removal tool and a booklet see look. I don't save myself the trouble of unboxing it They've got a picture cool. You got a quick charger It's got a 4,000 milliamp hour battery which is a first for BlackBerry and actually pretty unusual and generally got a type-c charging cable It does of course charge with type-c and some little replacement. Why Does BlackBerry still need to exist in the modern age? as a Canadian, I guess there's like kind of a Sentimental attachment to the brand that probably most people wouldn't share but as it is like Even with the sentimentality you still have to find a way to differentiate yourself So let's have a look at this phone then so on the back. They've got kind of a textured kind of rubberized Grippy thing going on with of course that iconic BlackBerry logo. They've got an 8 megapixel rear shooter that I have to confess This unboxing is a lie. I Did leave this on it, but as you can plainly see if I flip this around I have definitely already been using this phone It definitely has a bunch of my apps on it So the camera could be best described as pretty mediocre though It does shoot 4k video if you care about that sort of thing the shape of the phone is going to be a little bit polarizing so it's got kind of these These harder corners up at the top and this this asymmetral kind of rounded thing down here at the bottom But personally actually the thing it reminds me of most so far is actually the Razer phone Which I've been using as my daily driver lately, so they're very similar in the sense that they're these kind of Blocky phones of course the Razer phone is more expensive and has a couple of advantages. It's got a 120 Hertz display It's got a 1440p display It's got better speakers, so this one is just relying on a bottom speaker right here, but it is quite a bit more expensive But I do prefer their rounded approach to the bottom because then when you're using it You don't have it kind of digging into you like that. It's still got hardware buttons, which is interesting So if you're someone who was looking for something that still has hardware buttons. I mean to be clear There's nothing that I really dislike about it. It just doesn't stand out as anything special so volume rockers on the right lock buttons on the right a reconfigurable button for Bixby I'm just kidding it's not for Bixby You can change it to whatever you want is also right below that then on the bottom You've got your hardware buttons as well as a fingerprint enabled touch home button with the Blackberry logo on it does have a headphone jack type C and the speaker that I mentioned before so the last thing that's kind of cool and This one actually is pretty neat is when you've got the camera open You can either capture like this or you can tap this button and what it does is it'll Automatically save that picture into your locker. So if you're like, you know Heading over to the bathroom or whatever and you're like, you know what? My wife really needs to see a picture of you know, the goods right now. You can take that picture With the Blackberry button and then hopefully you have a super secure messaging application that you use A Blackberry messenger and you can snap that dick pic and send it back home for others to enjoy So that's a feature that I could see some people definitely getting into The last thing is that this is another first for Blackberry is that finally they have caught up to the year 2017 Let's see if this works and they have a water resistant phone so it's IP 67 waterproof Capacitive screens they do not like that They do not like that water. I guess honestly, there's not really much else to say about it overall in use I actually kind of liked it. It's cheaper than most other flagship smartphones. So it's not available in the US Sorry guys, but it's available in the UK and Canada and it's about 600 Canadian dollars So compared to a pixel 2 it's about I think with the promo that's on right now about 250 dollars cheaper so 4000 milliamp hour battery Serviceable camera like definitely a couple of gents ago camera good enough specs Like we're at the point now where if you're not playing a ton of games honestly a Snapdragon 625 like a mid-tier processor is just fine and A pretty close to stock Android experience. So is anyone asking for this? Does anyone need this? I Don't know. It's like BlackBerry reached out offering to send a unit and I didn't even I didn't even promise to do a video I was just like yeah, I don't know. Sure. You can send it over I'll like try it out and it was a Resoundingly, okay phone. So I figured you know, what the hey, let's do a video. What do you guys think? Should they even still bother branding phones BlackBerry or should they just give up outright? 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