**Blackberry Classic Review: A Step Back to the Good Old Days**

The Blackberry Classic is a phone that has been making waves among enthusiasts and business users alike, particularly those who swear by the tactile experience of a physical keyboard. With its full physical keyboard, which Blackberry claims has "perfect clickiness," this device is a breath of fresh air in an era dominated by touchscreen interfaces.

**A Tour of the Device**

The Blackberry Classic boasts a full physical keyboard, which is a departure from the more compact and sleek designs that have become the norm. The keyboard itself feels great to type on, with a tactile feedback that's reminiscent of older Blackberry devices. If you've missed having a physical keyboard or are still using an older Blackberry device, this is a nice iteration that offers an upgrade.

On the side of the device, users will find the nano SIM and micro SD card slots, which can be accessed via a semi-ejector tool that comes in the box. The volume up and down buttons sit on the right-hand side, while the power button – which doubles as a volume mute button or play mute button – is located at the top of the device. A long press on this button will pull up Blackberry's assistant, a feature that promises to make life easier for users.

**The Buttons: A New Era for Blackberry**

One of the most significant changes in the Blackberry Classic is the introduction of new buttons, which are designed to provide a more intuitive and interactive experience. The home button, for example, takes you directly into the dialer when tapped, allowing users to make phone calls with ease. Hitting the Blackberry button gives you contextual menus, while the trackpad provides a way to navigate through menus and applications. Back buttons are also present, allowing users to go back and exit from apps or functions.

The new buttons have been designed to work seamlessly throughout the OS, providing an intuitive experience that's easy to learn and use. For example, long pressing the volume up button will give you access to the Blackberry assistant, which can answer questions, set reminders, and perform other tasks. This is a significant improvement over older Blackberry devices, where such features were not as readily available.

**Performance: A Closer Look**

In terms of performance, the Blackberry Classic is a capable device that rivals its competitors in terms of speed and responsiveness. The browser, in particular, has seen a significant upgrade, with claims of being three times faster than previous generations. This means that users can expect a smoother browsing experience, complete with features like live bookmarking and quick access to frequently visited sites.

Battery life is also an area where the Blackberry Classic excels, with users reporting up to 50% longer battery life compared to their previous devices. The screen size has also been increased, making it easier to read and use in various lighting conditions. One notable feature that's missing from this device is motion gestures on the keyboard, which were a highlight of the Blackberry Passport.

**Build Quality: A Premium Feel**

The build quality of the Blackberry Classic is another area where the device excels. The metal ring around the device gives it a premium feel and look, while the unibody design makes it feel solid and durable in the hand. However, the plastic back may not appeal to everyone, as it can be removed without proper authorization.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the Blackberry Classic is a phone that's designed for those who value a tactile experience and a reliable device for business or personal use. With its full physical keyboard, improved performance, and sleek design, this device offers a compelling alternative to other smartphones on the market. While the price point may be higher than some users are willing to pay, the device is certainly worth considering for those who swear by the Blackberry experience.

**Testing the Device**

To put the Blackberry Classic through its paces, we'll be putting it through a series of tests and reviews to see how it performs in real-world scenarios. From everyday use to heavy gaming, this device will undergo rigorous testing to determine whether it's worth your hard-earned cash.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone John rer from TechnoBuffalo here and hidden beneath this nondescript white chath is the phone that maybe some of you been waiting for this is the BlackBerry Classic I still get really excited to unbox Blackberry so I'm really curious to take a look at the classic see if it brings back some of that old school Blackberry love that I think a lot of us had let's go and get started so this video is being filmed on a Thursday and for device like the classic I'm just going to throw it out there TBT all right so let's go ahead and pull off this white sheath boom BlackBerry Classic right on the front Blackberry uh logo this is the unlocked version although it will be coming uh to Verizon and AT&T and presumably other carriers uh in the near future you can buy it currently from either Amazon or Blackberry directly unlocked for 449 bucks we'll go and bring in the just unnecessary knife and try and and not slice a finger open cut that seal and cut this seal here too I was a big fan of the Blackberry Passport and we'll see how this guy Stacks up but it certainly doesn't have the same power that the passport does go and pull this out let's try to come here phone God list one is already a classic unboxing I can't get it open those are Remnant I hate tape Klingons or Klingons of any shape here we go all right all right box is off and there is the BlackBerry Classic uh this is more of a successor to the Blackberry Bold uh 9900 uh then it is really a brand new phone I should push all that off to the side take a look at the phone itself certainly feels very uh very familiar uh push that to the side see else we're going to have in the Box compens 30-day direct support now from Blackberry so you can call them directly and be like help me set up my phone please and they will uh Sim removal tool sitting right there on top uh it does use a nano SIM I believe uh what else we're going to have inside of the Box we've got booklets so many booklets so I know you guys are all going to read this but uh quick start guide quick start guide in Spanish quick I don't know what language that is um cook and safety guide and some other stuff in different languages pretty sure no one's going to read that at least I'm not uh we've got a M USB cable for charging and sinking we've got a wallwart uh this is the North American variant but if you pick one up either in in Europe or another region uh the prongs will match what's going to fit into your wall and we've got headphones it looks like I was hoping for like a belt holster like the old school blackberries doesn't look like we're going to be endowed with one and we've got a nice pair of headphones with the like different size earbuds in there too to customize for your ears push all that stuff off to the side this I think is the reason that we are all here the black break classic it feels very familiar uh let see if I can get that whooshy noise that I love come here whooshy noise o that was pretty satisfying actually and I get one more whooshy noise also uh pretty satisfying I'm going to go ahead and power the sucker on and we'll do a quick tour of the device all right so we've got this guy all powered up and ready to rock let me run through the specs uh you are looking at a 3.5 in screen Square aspect ratio so bear that in mind with a 720 by 720 resolution uh it's being powered by a 1.5 GHz dual core Snapdragon chip uh it's got 16 gigs of internal storage but that is expandable via slot on the side for micro SD cards up to 128 gigs uh nicely speced in the ram Department with 2 gigs of RAM uh the camera on the back is an 8 megapixel job and on the front it is a 2 megapixel sensor uh powering this guy is BlackBerry OS 10.3.1 uh if you haven't tried the new BlackBerry Os from 10.0 on uh it's a really full featured very nicely performing OS uh and blackberry 10.3 brought with it a lot more app support it brought Amazon's App Store native already installed on here and you can direct download most apks uh that you can get from Google Play so you almost get three full app stores uh with blackberry's OS 10.3 and up offerings if you want a lot of app support Blackberry is now a really good way to go uh when the OS first launched it was extremely deficient a lot of people still have that prancy of notion uh but not so anymore uh keeping this guy Juiced up is a 2515 milliamp battery and the big selling feature here for a lot of people uh is this 35 key keyboard so as I mentioned this is the spiritual successor uh to the Bold 9900 which we've got right here so a lot of similarities and some things uh that are different as well uh what's back to Modern blackberries is this five rows of buttons down here you've got your uh sen key you've got your blackberry menu key which a lot of people are going to be happy about uh you've got a trackpad which can also be clicked which people are really clamoring for I think at least Blackberry purists uh so quick tour of device we've got that full physical keyboard uh which has as Blackberry saying perfect clickiness and just using it for a few minutes it certainly does uh the onscreen keyboard is great I think Blackberry has nailed these uh and it feels really good to type if you've missed a physical keyboard or maybe you're still using uh an older Blackberry device this is a nice iteration a nice upgrade uh from what you already are going to have uh on the side is where your nano SIM and micro SD cards you're going to live you can use that semi ejector tool that came in the Box open the trays up for each on the right hand side you've got volume up and volume down in the middle you're probably saying weird plates for the power button uh that is actually a volume mute button or play mute button if you're listening to music a long press it will actually pull up a blackberry's assistant and on the top button that's where your power button is going to live and 3.5mm headset Jack um so let me do a quick tour here of the buttons since the buttons are very new to Blackberry OS 10 so if you want to make a phone call just tap that it'll take you right into the dialer and go ahead and make a dial uh if you're in an application hitting the Blackberry button will give you contextual menus if there's one to uh to have there uh you've got your trackpad which is just a trackpad it sort of work as advertising it works throughout the whole OS uh back button for going back and if you want to end a call uh you've got that end button right there uh so let me do show you qu the the blackberry's assistant looks like go ahead and long press that button on the side what's the weather outside would you like to turn on location services so you get a very sultry voice it's going to reply back to you uh performance- wise it's pretty close to what You' got uh in the competition so Cortana Siri uh and Google now maybe not as fast as those other options but it is improving and is getting better so as I mentioned the successor to the outgoing Bold 9900 which at this point is many years old uh so what the differences between the two uh first browser is a big one if you want to use a mod smart phone you probably want a browser that's going to be able to perform uh and the classic going give you a browser that is three times faster and my response to hearing that was really only three times uh this thing came out many moons ago but it is a fully capable browser that blackberry's got built in you're going to get way better battery life versus the Bold you can get 50% longer battery life uh the screen is 60% larger also as you can very clearly uh see here uh no more curve to the screen uh one of the features that I loved on a Blackberry Passport was actually motion gestures on the keyboard uh those are not here on the classic so bear that in mind uh build quality feels really nice and really premium I think modern Blackberry devices have felt really nice uh you've got that metal ring around it that unibody design uh feels very very uh high quality uh the back it's a it's a plastic back but it does have a bit of texture to it so it's easy to grip and grab but don't think you're going to be able to remove that battery cuz it is locked in there unless you want to avoid your warranty so non- removable back I'm going to use this guy I'm going to test it I'm going to put it through its paces and see how it performs I'm excited to try another BlackBerry device as I always am when they come out uh if you've been looking or clamoring for a full keyboard or maybe your business uh is still using Blackberry you might be looking forward uh to this device don't let the price don't let the specs fool you I think what we're going to have here is a really nicely specked phone but of course only time is going to tell and in particular you guys want to see me test on this be sure to let me know until next time I'm John rer from Tech no Buffalo see you guys next video byebye thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed we love making Tech videos here if you like watching them as much as we love making them and just enjoy playing with the latest consumer Electronics gear check us out hit the big subscribe button we got new videos coming out almost every single day we also have a channel on Twitch where we play games sometimes not so well at twitch.tv/ TechnoBuffalowhat's up everyone John rer from TechnoBuffalo here and hidden beneath this nondescript white chath is the phone that maybe some of you been waiting for this is the BlackBerry Classic I still get really excited to unbox Blackberry so I'm really curious to take a look at the classic see if it brings back some of that old school Blackberry love that I think a lot of us had let's go and get started so this video is being filmed on a Thursday and for device like the classic I'm just going to throw it out there TBT all right so let's go ahead and pull off this white sheath boom BlackBerry Classic right on the front Blackberry uh logo this is the unlocked version although it will be coming uh to Verizon and AT&T and presumably other carriers uh in the near future you can buy it currently from either Amazon or Blackberry directly unlocked for 449 bucks we'll go and bring in the just unnecessary knife and try and and not slice a finger open cut that seal and cut this seal here too I was a big fan of the Blackberry Passport and we'll see how this guy Stacks up but it certainly doesn't have the same power that the passport does go and pull this out let's try to come here phone God list one is already a classic unboxing I can't get it open those are Remnant I hate tape Klingons or Klingons of any shape here we go all right all right box is off and there is the BlackBerry Classic uh this is more of a successor to the Blackberry Bold uh 9900 uh then it is really a brand new phone I should push all that off to the side take a look at the phone itself certainly feels very uh very familiar uh push that to the side see else we're going to have in the Box compens 30-day direct support now from Blackberry so you can call them directly and be like help me set up my phone please and they will uh Sim removal tool sitting right there on top uh it does use a nano SIM I believe uh what else we're going to have inside of the Box we've got booklets so many booklets so I know you guys are all going to read this but uh quick start guide quick start guide in Spanish quick I don't know what language that is um cook and safety guide and some other stuff in different languages pretty sure no one's going to read that at least I'm not uh we've got a M USB cable for charging and sinking we've got a wallwart uh this is the North American variant but if you pick one up either in in Europe or another region uh the prongs will match what's going to fit into your wall and we've got headphones it looks like I was hoping for like a belt holster like the old school blackberries doesn't look like we're going to be endowed with one and we've got a nice pair of headphones with the like different size earbuds in there too to customize for your ears push all that stuff off to the side this I think is the reason that we are all here the black break classic it feels very familiar uh let see if I can get that whooshy noise that I love come here whooshy noise o that was pretty satisfying actually and I get one more whooshy noise also uh pretty satisfying I'm going to go ahead and power the sucker on and we'll do a quick tour of the device all right so we've got this guy all powered up and ready to rock let me run through the specs uh you are looking at a 3.5 in screen Square aspect ratio so bear that in mind with a 720 by 720 resolution uh it's being powered by a 1.5 GHz dual core Snapdragon chip uh it's got 16 gigs of internal storage but that is expandable via slot on the side for micro SD cards up to 128 gigs uh nicely speced in the ram Department with 2 gigs of RAM uh the camera on the back is an 8 megapixel job and on the front it is a 2 megapixel sensor uh powering this guy is BlackBerry OS 10.3.1 uh if you haven't tried the new BlackBerry Os from 10.0 on uh it's a really full featured very nicely performing OS uh and blackberry 10.3 brought with it a lot more app support it brought Amazon's App Store native already installed on here and you can direct download most apks uh that you can get from Google Play so you almost get three full app stores uh with blackberry's OS 10.3 and up offerings if you want a lot of app support Blackberry is now a really good way to go uh when the OS first launched it was extremely deficient a lot of people still have that prancy of notion uh but not so anymore uh keeping this guy Juiced up is a 2515 milliamp battery and the big selling feature here for a lot of people uh is this 35 key keyboard so as I mentioned this is the spiritual successor uh to the Bold 9900 which we've got right here so a lot of similarities and some things uh that are different as well uh what's back to Modern blackberries is this five rows of buttons down here you've got your uh sen key you've got your blackberry menu key which a lot of people are going to be happy about uh you've got a trackpad which can also be clicked which people are really clamoring for I think at least Blackberry purists uh so quick tour of device we've got that full physical keyboard uh which has as Blackberry saying perfect clickiness and just using it for a few minutes it certainly does uh the onscreen keyboard is great I think Blackberry has nailed these uh and it feels really good to type if you've missed a physical keyboard or maybe you're still using uh an older Blackberry device this is a nice iteration a nice upgrade uh from what you already are going to have uh on the side is where your nano SIM and micro SD cards you're going to live you can use that semi ejector tool that came in the Box open the trays up for each on the right hand side you've got volume up and volume down in the middle you're probably saying weird plates for the power button uh that is actually a volume mute button or play mute button if you're listening to music a long press it will actually pull up a blackberry's assistant and on the top button that's where your power button is going to live and 3.5mm headset Jack um so let me do a quick tour here of the buttons since the buttons are very new to Blackberry OS 10 so if you want to make a phone call just tap that it'll take you right into the dialer and go ahead and make a dial uh if you're in an application hitting the Blackberry button will give you contextual menus if there's one to uh to have there uh you've got your trackpad which is just a trackpad it sort of work as advertising it works throughout the whole OS uh back button for going back and if you want to end a call uh you've got that end button right there uh so let me do show you qu the the blackberry's assistant looks like go ahead and long press that button on the side what's the weather outside would you like to turn on location services so you get a very sultry voice it's going to reply back to you uh performance- wise it's pretty close to what You' got uh in the competition so Cortana Siri uh and Google now maybe not as fast as those other options but it is improving and is getting better so as I mentioned the successor to the outgoing Bold 9900 which at this point is many years old uh so what the differences between the two uh first browser is a big one if you want to use a mod smart phone you probably want a browser that's going to be able to perform uh and the classic going give you a browser that is three times faster and my response to hearing that was really only three times uh this thing came out many moons ago but it is a fully capable browser that blackberry's got built in you're going to get way better battery life versus the Bold you can get 50% longer battery life uh the screen is 60% larger also as you can very clearly uh see here uh no more curve to the screen uh one of the features that I loved on a Blackberry Passport was actually motion gestures on the keyboard uh those are not here on the classic so bear that in mind uh build quality feels really nice and really premium I think modern Blackberry devices have felt really nice uh you've got that metal ring around it that unibody design uh feels very very uh high quality uh the back it's a it's a plastic back but it does have a bit of texture to it so it's easy to grip and grab but don't think you're going to be able to remove that battery cuz it is locked in there unless you want to avoid your warranty so non- removable back I'm going to use this guy I'm going to test it I'm going to put it through its paces and see how it performs I'm excited to try another BlackBerry device as I always am when they come out uh if you've been looking or clamoring for a full keyboard or maybe your business uh is still using Blackberry you might be looking forward uh to this device don't let the price don't let the specs fool you I think what we're going to have here is a really nicely specked phone but of course only time is going to tell and in particular you guys want to see me test on this be sure to let me know until next time I'm John rer from Tech no Buffalo see you guys next video byebye thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed we love making Tech videos here if you like watching them as much as we love making them and just enjoy playing with the latest consumer Electronics gear check us out hit the big subscribe button we got new videos coming out almost every single day we also have a channel on Twitch where we play games sometimes not so well at twitch.tv/ TechnoBuffalo\n"