I Bought a Huge BlackBerry in 2022

[@SAMTIME]

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[@jack_276]

6 hr ago.... how

[@GH05TYPLAYz]

gud video

[@bobshindorf5736]

I want to know why the fuck it took me this long to stumble on you're channel? I sub and thumbs up instantly funny man.

[@Anilu777]

I still have my Passport. It was an awesome phone in its day. I wiped it before the servers went down but kept my Z30 as is. BBM is still loaded in the cache! I accidentally let the Z30 battery die and was horrified that I’d lost the last BBM conversations (outside of BBM Enterprise). Thankfully they were still there when I charged the phone. Good memories. The poor BlackBerry engineer who had to pull the plug was giving us a play by play as things were shut down. Lots of drinking over BBM that night. 😢

[@jonfreeman9682]

Truly legendary. Hold onto it as it could be worth millions as a piece of history.

[@mikearthur8129]

Z30 was my favourite phone to date

[@amore711]

I also keep my first 8520 and also the z10.psando x the one scrolling

[@courtneymoran2329]

Awful!

[@이웃집고양이루루]

I really wish Blackberry continues making these phones with updated software

[@milademjayyy]

*They had a horrible CEO*

[@muttaking354]

​@@milademjayyy right

[@vgamesx1]

I feel the same way about my Xperia XZs as Sam does about his BlackBerries, sometimes you just want a good old design with updated specs / software support rather than some fancy looking new phone.

[@WololoWololo2]

iPhone 13 Pro Max with its OLED screen: count me in

[@ListenToPumpkinMusic]

XZs can still be used in 2022 with custom ROMs like iodeOS.

[@vgamesx1]

@@ListenToPumpkinMusic It can be used with the stock OS just fine, software improvements can only do so much, you aren't going to suddenly be able to play Genshin Impact or whatever just because you update the OS. I've come to terms that nobody will make my idea of a dream phone and the closest things to it will cost over $1000 anyway, so I'll just have to settle on keeping around 2 or 3 different phones for different purposes, it's annoying but manageable.

[@sladekiske]

Yeah. I bought the iPhone 12 Pro when it came out because the iPhone 4S was my first smartphone. I wanted the stainless steel and square sides. Now if they would just offer it with the brushed stainless steel that aged beautifully (like Steve Jobs said) rather than this mirror polish that gets micro scratches and shows every smudge and fingerprint to where it will look like crap 5 seconds after you clean it.

[@jonfreeman9682]

Xperia was great too. My first smartphone was Xperia Ray and it was great back in the day. Sadly BlackBerry Sony HTC LG are dead. They were true pioneers back in the day. At least Motorola is still around.

[@metaldiceman]

I've kept my collection of red, black, and silver Passports. Use them for alarm clocks, MP3 playing, and random notes. Best phone I've ever used.

[@antaeussnorik6790]

Did You tried BB Key2?

[@metaldiceman]

That's an Android phone. Not a viable option imo

[@antaeussnorik6790]

@@metaldiceman Right, true.

[@Darkest_matter]

@@metaldiceman uhh... What?

[@Darkest_matter]

Damn.. This guy got trio citizenship

[@theshadowman1398]

Dude do reviews of Nokia's heyday phones. Especially the E and the N series. Those are amazing unique devices.

[@DPPOfficial]

YES!

[@jajan.murahASMR4K]

Yes 2nd, especially the old monochrome Nokia screen

[@tamasjakaba2941]

3rd that

[@cool_gamez]

4th an Xpressmusic or a Communicator phone

[@calingabrielpop5566]

As a native Romanian, that lives and speaks the language every day, I can not translate whatever was said on the radio 102.5(Radio Romania Actualitati). However, I listen to the radio if I am in a car that doesn't allow you to play music over the speakers, and I need to listen to it.

[@TechieXP]

I always love the pun!!! "Look at that. Someone who thought naming a phone after a small book, before Microsoft did". Classic!!!!

[@cschmitz100]

Gotta love this man. He really said “blackberry. Are you black-ready? 😏”

[@MG-im8ku]

I still have mine, I kept it because I love the form factor of it. When all it's services and what not were running, it was a great phone. I kept most of my blackberries actually. Got a pearl, Z30, Passport and KeyTwo. My Blackberry Torch snapped, so I couldn't really keep that. Using a Samsung S22 Ultra now, but kept those for the memories lol I still still BlackBerry 10 was an amazing operating system that the others (andoid and iOS) are now taking features from blackberry 10 to use themselves. Like the swipe gestures.

[@thirdworldarchives]

Is that a Big BlackBerry in your pocket or are you just excited to see me 😂

[@aarongee1168]

If they released the passport this year, I would buy the shit out of it

[@MG-im8ku]

Same here. Especially if they released one with an updated version of android, but the better security from blackberry.

[@Tapot_goo]

Same !

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

It's pretty wild the resolution is higher than an S22 plus

[@ShadyRadaideh]

The S6 has higher resolution than the S22+

[@WololoWololo2]

The Xiaomi 12 Pro has higher screen panel color than S22 Ultra which Xiaomi 12’s is 86 billion and so S22 Ultra’s is 16 million

[@ShadyRadaideh]

@@WololoWololo2 bro talking about a modern phone breaks the point This is not about comparison it's about laughing at where we were and where we at now

[@WololoWololo2]

@@ShadyRadaideh Bro, if people bought a S22 Plus, means they couldn’t have used their heads properly which they should have bought Xiaomi 12 Pro / should bought Xiaomi 12 Ultra when it will come out. The biggest phone in the hystory, is the S20 Ultra. Now Xiaomi 12 Ultra will have same 6.9 inch display but with 68 billion screen colours, way more than 1 billion colours, 68 times more colour while being at WQHD+ 1440p resolution! At the same time Dude! Also Samsung + Apple is here with 16 “M”illion. Look Who is laughable brother. Plus with LAİCA cameras, the best cameras at this earth, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 FİNALLY no more Samsung research! Finally TSMC! Tsmcccccccc. Say bye bye to Exynos and Samsung’s overheating 5 nm other company so called processors. Which smartphone will reach Xiaomi at resolution and “colours”? Also being at hugest size again? Nobody. Because Xiaomi never had made a keyboard phone but Samsung did made many phones with buttons if not atleast keyboard in 2000s! What can you expect smartphone companies to do something terrible but also “overpriced like Apple products”? Just provides software updates! Yuck I could buy 3 flagship Xiaomi phones for updates support! Right?

[@ShadyRadaideh]

@@WololoWololo2 oh my god what are you saying 💀 You completly missed the point This is not a comparison man stop comparing companies People get samsung for the OneUI software, hardware is useless with an unstable software Also S20 isn't the biggest phone in history, there's the mate 20X and honor 8X max phones with 7.2" display, and honor x10 max with 7.09"

[@sadmanislam5111]

I hope you are enjoying the European life. I love Blackberry phones. Thank you for trying to bring back the Blackberry to the modern age.

[@jonfreeman9682]

They tried but totally mismanaged the phones. They should have released a new phone every year.

[@c3vids_shorts]

I love BlackBerry especially the keyboard made it so easy compared to to typing on the screen 😭 I nearly bought the Passport but didn't want to spend the steep price tag. The configuration of BlackBerry setting servers was a it annoying which means you could only use from their system which I understand for exclusivity but unfortunately that's what 'killed' the brand eventually. Perhaps, if they tried to open like adapting to like the Android version they might still have been around?

[@sali-ali]

This thing is like 10 years old and it's still performing very well. I had BlackBerry Z10, the BlackBerry OS 10 was the best operating system ever made. ANDROID is almost catching it now 10 years later while IOS is a total trash. I want new phones with BB OS 10.

[@alpacino9226]

you are too biased to blackberry that even biased word itself is ashamed of you.

[@sali-ali]

@@alpacino9226 Haha I know I stepped on you by saying IOS is a total trash. Don't cry my little kid, you'll see the real world once you grow :)

[@Wind0wsMediaPlayer]

i was just watching your other blackberry videos lmao and you just uploaded this

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Can't wait for your nothing parody. You should try to do it without a single nothing pun

[@The-Heart-Will-Testify]

That phone will outlast latest iPhones or androids … I still have the passport and the built quality bus amazing,,, the best hardware quality of al time honestly…

[@mufasa7526]

Had a Q10 in early 2014 and i felt like a God among my peers hahaah

[@tkd4]

BlackBerry claimed to be a software company now. You'd think they would have had the skills to make an up to date browser for bb10. That's all people needed.

[@jonfreeman9682]

They tried. When they bought amazing tribes to launch bb10 they introduced a browser but problem was that's it. No email either.

[@jrufus11]

Google pulled all thier hardware because they want to spy on you and blackberry don't allow spying

[@The-Heart-Will-Testify]

Chen was sent by apple and google to destroy blackberry… they fail when they went with android

[@jonfreeman9682]

@@The-Heart-Will-Testify Well no matter what BlackBerry does they would fail. When they first started they were the Mercedes-Benz... the Rolls Royce of smartphones... a real status symbol if you owned one. But then the competition got good... really good. They are smarter faster and far better organized and far bigger than a one product company. BlackBerry was gonna get steamrolled no matter what. They got a head start on a phone that can do e-mail but the phone became so much more than just e-mail and that's why they lost.

[@cibervilla2594]

@@jonfreeman9682 you dont know what you are saying, BB passport was far better than any iphone or android device when it came out, it was better in every thing, the problem was I think they did not promote it very well, if a passport 2 came in 2023 with a bb new system would be amazing

[@ShanmukhGudivadaGamingGeek44]

Man I too have this Blackberry Passport White. I stashed it as a souvenir.

[@VoloKinProject]

After the Android leaked for it I kept mine for a bit too long waiting patiently for somebody from XDA to cook a proper Android Ron for it but it never happened so finally sold it last year. Surprisingly it's still over a hundred quid for a boxed unit.

[@jonfreeman9682]

It's a collector's item now. If you hold onto it you'll get quadruple the quids.

[@VoloKinProject]

@@jonfreeman9682 not really. I kept it for 3 years and sold it for the same money. Not now they BB killing services and the back cover of the phone becoming sticky.

[@System.10]

You are one of my favourite KZbinrs, Sam! I seriously enjoyed this video!

[@adityanarayansreejith9362]

I’ve once played PUBG lite on a Galaxy S3 mini. I was actually shocked when I saw that it could run it without any issues.

[@jonfreeman9682]

Seriously. That's unbelievable as hardware is pretty frugal.

[@turphin]

alternative name for android blackberries: blackberry: fandroid edition

[@jonfreeman9682]

Good one. 👌

[@KingTechHD]

😂 this is awesome. I used to love blackberries. After I got an android it was over. Full websites, MySpace, updated apps/games, bigger screen, better battery. RIP Blackberry

[@kelmerbueno5445]

You're hilarious bro !!!! Don't stop making videos please 😂😂

[@johnlez0]

8:30 F

[@WedgeStratos]

BB10's UI design was miles ahead, and the software integration was incredible. The Hub is still the best notification manager on any smartphone OS, period, and it's tragic that such deep API hooks don't happen with the competition the way it did with BB10. Even trying with the Priv and on, Blackberry couldn't reproduce that on Android. At this point, Sailfish is the only other good alternative out there, and unlike Blackberry, you need to put that on a phone yourself. Actually, you might look into that next. Get yourself an Xperia 10 and chuck Sailfish OS on there, see how you ride. It can run actually supported Android apps! -Never mind that you need to pay Jolla a 50€ for that, it's good fun-

[@jonfreeman9682]

Exactly. Too bad they didn't support it. Really think there's room for a BlackBerry even today.

[@demboyz4082]

miles ahead? theyre inconvinient at best.theyre unique yes but they arent miles ahead

[@mikearthur8129]

@@demboyz4082 they were ahead. Swipe gestures scared people. Now all advanced phones have that.

[@demboyz4082]

@@mikearthur8129 youre only talking about 1feature which wasnt originate from blackberry. for your info swipe feature came from hp palm. blackberry os altho useable its inconvient to use even before. they hid settings make it hard to use just to be unique back 2010

[@WedgeStratos]

@@demboyz4082 sounds like malding from someone who never daily drove a BB10 device. I pity you that you won't get that opportunity.

[@cyrilio]

I have an old blackberry that still works. Willing to donate it. Should I send it to you Sam?

[@jonfreeman9682]

Hold onto it as it'll go up in value as piece of mobile history.

[@hanghaeja]

Evernote syncs fine, actually. BB servers are not required for that. Telegram - depends on the version. Kindle is OK. Hub is functional.

[@amore711]

I love blackberry, if it comes back I'll buy it in one

[@CaidicusProductions]

I had one of these, back when it released. Man, I loved the HELL out of it. Such an awesome phone. I entered the Blackberry party really late, 2015 being my first year of buying one. Instantly fell in love with the keyboard. A shame Blackberry killed itself with bad management.

[@joshualebowitz]

Phone still need physical keyboards.

[@zethloveless7238]

@@joshualebowitz maybe you do but the rest of us don’t. We can use that for many myriads of other reasons

[@caniz80]

He loves phones that much he wants to "root" them

[@SAMTIME]

😏

[@UltraCenterHQ]

I remember seeing the blackberry passport and wanting it so badly

[@metromodernism]

Should've done this video in a 1:1 ratio for us Passport users

[@kenhcuatung]

I'm living in Vietnam. I have a Bold 9900 and a Classic Q20, both in perfect condition. Bold 9900 represents BBOS 7 and Q20 for BBOS10. BBOS 7 is better in my opinion, it's smarter in some cases and has absolutely no delay in basic tasks

[@TaiAnh132]

99 đỉnh cao thiết kế luôn, mỗi tội pin hẻo :))

[@kenhcuatung]

@@TaiAnh132 giờ nghe gọi trung bình cũng được 3 ngày, ổn mà bác :D

[@TaiAnh132]

@@kenhcuatung nghe gọi thì oke chứ cỡ chục năm trước còn xài để lướt fb các kiểu thì đúng hẻo :))

[@oneminutewonder77]

The crazy thing is that despite this phone being more wide than other modern phones, is that it's smaller than many phones that we have nowadays.

[@WSS_the_OG]

Your video made me feel like a visionary, having bought one of these in or around 2016. It still works today, for what that's worth.

[@Exedorable]

Watching this on my 6.5 year old BlackBerry Priv 😎

[@Mark-mu4pj]

It's always a good time with SamTime.

[@bdotashu]

A humble comment celebrating SAMTIME's efforts since BlackBerry couldn't. 🙄🤪

[@Backflipornament]

First time viewing this channel. Great content! Aussie humour too😎 GG subbed

[@wjckc79]

Best phone ever made. I miss BB10 OS in general.

[@henkondemand]

Shame it never went anywhere, would have loved to see it be part of the big three. Android, iOS & BB10 OS.

[@npanos1]

Best OS ever! Had the Passport since 2014, no lag or slow down (new battery in 2020), this OS was perfect! Iphone and Androïd are so fare out, but nobody wants to ear about it!... BB OS 10 was mature at launch, but only had 500K apps... How much app do you need, frankly?

[@AeroSatan]

You've got a tip from me Sam. Keep up the crackberry humor and that Australian wit

[@SAMTIME]

Hey AeroSatan, thanks heaps for the tip and shall do ;D Stay FUNKY!

[@LetsBringThePain]

would be cool to see a Blackberry Priv video 🔥

[@jonfreeman9682]

I would say the Priv was the make or break for BlackBerry. It was a really good phone and they did everything right. But lousy software support and they abandoned it after a year. At that point it was too late. People didn't have much hope left for BlackBerry. Really sad as I loved the phones. Not sure where it all went wrong.

[@ImprovingAbility]

Samtime’s sponsor sketches are so good I’d be fine watching a sponsor sketch as standalone video with no review video around the edges

[@jennaarnaz7125]

I have my passport still. Love it.

[@j2simpso]

Seems like your BlackBerry got blue balls trying to connect to BlackBerry's Skynet!

[@robertjameson6600]

The BB Key 2 and also the BB Motion are great phones, even though they were made by TCL. They still have a lot of Blackberry to them... like the Hub, the various flashing LED colors depending on texts, various email account, messenger, etc.

[@alptheguide]

Blend still works perfectly fine .

[@jonfreeman9682]

Well BlackBerry was truly legendary and a real status symbol back in the day. Sadly they could not survive in the Android iOS world. Just mismanaged iconic brand. Passport was not bad and the Priv and Key 2 were amazing. They should have released another BlackBerry.

[@MG-im8ku]

I was hoping for a Passport 2, that runs the latest Android OS. The KeyTwo was good, but I just loved the dimensions of the passport. For a guy with bigger hands, the wider phone was awesome.

[@Darkest_matter]

Uhh .. if he was in Romania, he could've just stole the phone. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do"

[@tresspeng8066]

I have a red passport, and it is still in my drawer. Absolutely love the geometric design of this phone, too bad it can only run BBOS, otherwise it will ba a great secondary phone for work

[@bayembo]

I was a hardcore bb user... last one I had was this blackberry. Loved it back then- The screen was ahead of its time but everything else became dated by 2017. Never tried the new android versions though... too pricey for what it is.

[@fleshmazecrewmatix]

Yeah I loved the BB10 OS sad that it went under I tried the BB Priv but it ended up shitting itself still have my Z10 and BB Passport still work just not much works on them hahaha still have music and photos on them check out the Unihertz Titan probably the closest thing to the BB Passport that uses android has most the same swipe functions and trackpad keyboard I'm thinking about getting one.

[@killerbees1199]

i was waiting on the warning klaxon noise when PUBG crashed 😄

[@AlexTrout79]

Dude, you would be a genius in marketing 😁

[@somehowimanage3902]

Pork dessert 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@somehowimanage3902]

Enjoying Romania I see. Excellent choice Sir!

[@Seagaltalk]

My dad still has one of those and it still works well.

[@1234mattyman]

My favourite blackberry was the BB 9800 because the cameras were ok and it was a slide phone. I do miss having a physical keyboard. Great video. From UK 🇬🇧

[@fleshmazecrewmatix]

Maybe try the Unihertz Titan or Titan Pocket closest thing you will get to a functioning BB these days im thinking about getting one or two hahahaha

[@ericablue32]

I love this guy. He cracks me up. 😂

[@remyedosio3427]

Got me laughing at 3am on a review video, Subbed.

[@ChristopherPetersonR2d2]

80s actor Michael Landon would like his hair back! 😂. Hope you’re feeling better.

[@karunjohn4537]

thing is man, even now currently using BB priv for around 6 years, BB messenger, server ol stopped but its so good that i never wanted another fon..i can say its good for next 3 4 years and that's how you make your money worth other than buying a fon for just 2 or 3 years. BB passport was like around 10 years and if you could update the version u cud use the fon.

[@roblapierre5236]

Unlock the bootloader and then obtain SU then flash a custom ROM like Dirty Unicorns... Haha 😂 Ah the good ole days

[@heyayaye]

me from Romanian looking for a Passport and looking at this video randomly, lol

[@aaditya1893]

I'm still using BB Key 2 and man-o-man it's one helluva phone. It's my permanent 2ndary phone.

[@iuliupaltinean6072]

Dude, you are romanian? I’m from Timisoara and I love your work

[@tlm2096]

Ngl I forgot this company still existed

[@jonfreeman9682]

They do but sadly no more phones. They were truly iconic.

[@raxadian]

Eh, is more functional that my Nokia N8 at least?

[@MihaiRUdeRO]

LMAO that Borat clip XD

[@eyeorigins77]

that keyboard is so cool

[@paulinnes4493]

I wonder where paper comes from lol 👍

[@jadevu904]

Love the concept but why the keyboard are so small???

[@BogdanPopescuOfficial]

Are you in Romania? Cool! It seems that you are, maybe, in Timisoara?

[@candevallejo]

Dude, look at that keyborard…I LOVE IT and miss it so much! I’ve already buy it for a dumb phone :)

[@jonfreeman9682]

Truly amazing. They were the last holdout for keyboard but sadly it seems nobody wanted keyboard phones anymore.

[@joshualebowitz]

There remains no substitute for a physical keyboard.

[@denisvasiliev694]

I loved this phone. Such a great device it was. To bad it didn't take off and they didn't support the OS.

[@SPOOK.E]

Passport was my favorite phone ever.

[@TheiTunesFanboy]

You really overpaid for that, they go for $35 USD on eBay. A BlackBerry like that can detect an AirTag, I tried it with my BlackBerry classic.

[@jonfreeman9682]

Seriously. They've gone up in value as collector's item now. Like the first iPhones in new condition in box can fetch several thousands now. They are iconic collector's item.

[@TheiTunesFanboy]

@@jonfreeman9682 I checked as I was watching this video, they may have gone up slightly, but not by much.

[@The-Heart-Will-Testify]

I sold blackberry passport se for $600 on Amazon… some people are buying it as a collection lol… this black one is the cheapest, SE and red edition cost more

[@julianaalves6591]

I just love this phone form factory. Please companies make a large fone...

[@KrazyCouch2]

What a beautiful specimen.

[@Josh-tx8sj]

I loved my blackberry passport

[@F4LL_4_NON3]

The passport was actually decent

[@Ametisti]

RIP Blackberry. I almost got a Blackberry as my first smartphone, cuz I thought the keyboard'd be nice, but ended up gettin' an HTC Wildfire S, partly cuz camera (it wasn't great, but it was alright.)

[@kimberlysilenge734]

if only they built a model like this in2007

[@drumrace]

The gray hair is for real 😂

[@baddboo]

But does it work in 2024, and what carrier ? I don’t care too much about the BB features ( servers down) but can I use text, calls, email?

[@mikeriv60]

Still the best designed phone to date.

[@madmike6942]

i have a blackberry bold... works perfect... now i am searching 4 a Priv to use and put aside my mate 40 rs porsche design

[@amos660]

That's the best phone I've ever owned. hands down.

[@AzmiAb]

I miss my passport phone.

[@Vallee152]

"HD definition," high definition definition

[@Mr_Ravee]

You should try out LG vu2 / F200 almost the same dimension as this one. NOICE Video btw😂

[@michaelsegal3558]

I wonder why Sam isn’t wearing his glasses in this video

[@kapilsharmaWorld_uncensored]

The world became more chaotic after BB died. True story.

[@THE16THPHANTOM]

its kinda funny how just installing the game almost set the phone on fire.

[@mihairhea]

I would like to see a review of ericsson R380

[@starchild7843]

Dang wish Samsung would have a phone that size and that keyboard too I kinda miss a physical keyboards.