BlackBerry Priv is the best BlackBerry in a decade

Hello, old friend. I can’t say I’ve missed you, but it’s still a pleasant surprise to run my digits over your surface. The bumps and ridges feel, after so much time, odd, yet strangely familiar. I honestly can’t believe it’s been almost five years since I gave up my last BlackBerry and touched my last BlackBerry keyboard.

My last BlackBerry, a Bold 9650, was a small, yet fairly traditional BlackBerry. It had a pretty small screen and the full classic QWERTY keyboard right below it. Before that I had the large-screen (for the time) Torch with a slide-out keyboard. Aside from its lackluster performance, I kind of loved that phone. Read more...