Although BlackBerry released the classic Q series mobile phone in 2013, it has also achieved certain results in the market with the blessing of the new system. But under the influence of Android and IOS, BlackBerry, which is eager to survive, still tried to compromise, gave up the 10.0 system that he had high hopes for, and then fell into the arms of Android. In 2015, BlackBerry's first Android phone, the BlackBerry Priv, was released.
The Priv body adopts a newly designed QWERTY keyboard, uses a 5.4-inch hyperboloid screen, and is equipped with physical navigation keys, and the QWERTY keyboard adopts a push-pull design, which is also the signature feature of this phone. Although some users report that this design is not easy to use, most users think that this is a good design. I think at least when typing, without the obstruction of the virtual keyboard, the screen appears larger.
Priv used the Android 5.1 operating system, equipped with the 6-core processor of Qualcomm Snapdragon 808, 3+32 configuration, and an 18-megapixel camera on the rear, but it was complained that the photo effect was not very ideal.
As the first BlackBerry machine, Priv is still tested in terms of industrial design and workmanship, and although it is a native Android system, it does a good job in system optimization. But BlackBerry had an obvious drawback at the time, that is, the price was not cheap. In the context of smartphones beginning to bloom at that time, the performance of BlackBerry mobile phone actually did not have much advantage over its opponents. Under such circumstances, it is very unfavorable for a company that is on the decline and expects to rise from the beginning.