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Yes, the Priv is great. I had the Q10 before so I can give you a pretty good idea of what you're in for.
Hardware:
- Fantastic physical keyboard, the touch enabled is great for swiping up word suggestions and 'whole word' backspacing. I don't use it all that much for scrolling but that's maybe just how I use the phone.
- I don't find it especially thick or hard to hold. That being said it is rather large in every other aspect especially coming from a Q10. I have the flip case on it (came with during the Christmas special) and that doesn't help for making one hand operation easy, especially since Android seems to place a lot of controls at the top of the screen.
- Rear camera is excellent. Quick and good quality. Front camera is meh, because of keeping the sliding screen thin, for me, I've only used the front camera to see how it works so I don't care.
- Battery life has been excellent for me, few days to settle in but all good from there.
Software
- The HUB loses a few things but gains some others. I hope/expect a lot of the BBM integration (like group pictures, favorite channels activity feed) to be integrated in the future as BB gets more and more into Android. You do gain things like snooze messages until a time or place or device connection is made, and there is some more filtering and custom filtering options.
- You loose (hopefully for not too long) BBM video chat and BBM screenshare.
- I hope and pray that BB makes the HUB an actual SMS client, currently it opens your default. I have found a very good solution with YAATA, certainly better then Messanger but not perfect.
- You do loose Timeshift on the cameras
- You do loose music playback control with the volume keys
- I'm a huge BB10 fan but there are some things that they just didn't have time to work out and I think Android has implimented better. Lock screen music controls, music quiets for notifications, podcasts pause for notifications, stuff like that.
- Really nice 'Smart Lock' where you can set your phone to lock at a certain interval (even as soon as you press the hardware lock/unlock button - not available on BB10) but if you are at a certain location like home or connected to a certain device it takes 4 hours to lock, I love it at home.
- The option of no LED notification unless the screen is off. Nice little touches like that.
- No BBM instant reply but hopefully coming
- Marshmellow is coming at sometime.
#1 first thing you do when you fire it up is check for updates, OS and apps
#2 go into settings and take voice input off of the physical keyboard 0 button so it acts the way your used to.
#3 I had no luck with the content transfer app for the contacts, it did transfer them but maybe I messed it up. You want to add your contacts to your google contacts because they sync uo beautifully and you edit them on the website and they instantly change on your phone.
#4 Download a file explorer. I use Solid Explorer and the USB OTG addon.
#5 If you want to replace the Google Now app as the middle swipe up gesture, use Now Gesture Tweeks or their Free Version
The 3 functions in the swipe up are nice. I use lock device, camera, and HUB
I've never had an Android device before but it really didn't take long to get used to and I actually really enjoy the occasional widget haha
I'm sure I have other opinions haha but thats all I can think of right now.
PS If you do use Now Gesture Tweeks for the camera set it to app -> BlackBerry camera, not the function camera, as that takes one picture and closes (like an app invoked it)
