• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Help I Don't Think That I Could Hate My PRIV Anymore Then I Do Now!

the2ndflood

Newbie
This stupid Blackberry Priv is by far, the worst phone that I have ever owned! Only the Hard-Where keyboard is nice, everything else is pure trash! Does anyone here also hate their Priv? Do you, like me, regret buying it? Here is a small review of the phone, so people know what they are getting into, when they buy this phone. I am truly not trying to disrespect Blackberry, but people need to know the truth.


The phone heats up constantly. The memory card slot , often fails. The phone can not charge, while you are using it. You have to let the phone charge, by not using it, at all. The SIM and Memory card slots, are difficult to access and prone to breaking. With voice calls, the person on the other end, can not hear your at first. It takes a second or two, for them to hear you. It is very difficult to add contacts. The options that are supposed to let you add contacts, don't work, in the way that they should. You can't automatically download files to the memory card. You have to change settings and download apps, in order to transfer the content from the phones Internal memory, to the SD Card. The Spell-Check doesn't work like it does on other phones. You will see all of the possible spellings on the keyboard, but you can't click them and have the word typed in. Plus, with this problem, you have to Back-Space, in order to correctly add the words that you really wanted. It has no removable battery. It has an extremely annoying Nanny-Like function, where it will keep changing your curse words and other spellings of words, into "SAFE" words. Also, the Mini-USB port is really susceptible to breaking. I bought this phone, because it has a Hard-Where keyboard, a lot of Internal memory, it is running the most current version of Android and it is still able to keep upgrading the OS, decent battery life, support for up to to 2 TB's of SD Card memory, large screen, ect. I know some of these issues are caused by Android, but this is actually Blackberry's version of the AndroidOS, so they could have customized it better. If you can buy it for around $150 to $200, then it could possibly be worth it to you. But not $700+. I really wanted to love this phone, but I dont see it lasting for anymore then a year. The Blackberry PRIV, is just a poorly designed phone. I could go on, but I imagine that you get the point. A somewhat decent phone, with A LOT of issues!
 
i dont think installs many differetn but uptill now has no advantage of using them its just i have an app which is consuming 4mb of my phone space
 
Completely agree. I've gone from BB10 to android (didn't take the PRIV as it was too big). But every day I'm finding ways in which the BB software (to coin an Apple Fan phrase) "Just Works".
So far the alarm doesn't switch the phone on in the morning, and email accounts can't be separated on the home screen. Well they sort of can but the 'new email' number notification on all accounts is the combination of all new emails. Someone advised me that the feature I'm after is not necessary, I already feel like I'm in the new Apple club where I will be told how I want my device setup and I will be grateful :-)
 
Hmm, I've only read positive things about the Priv. I have heard of the heat issue, but other than that I have seen no real negative reviews. I am considering getting one and I'm sort of torn between that and a BB Passport because I want a physical keyboard again (miss my old Motorola Droid).
 
Back
Top Bottom