It’s a fantastic tool for people who put productivity first, but it doesn’t really shine anywhere else.
The BlackBerry Motion is the latest device from TCL, the Chinese electronics giant that creates the products and then uses BlackBerry’s brand to market them.
BlackBerry phones have historically had a hardware keyboard, which has remained a constant even in the era of all-touchscreen smartphones; recent BlackBerry phones included the Priv and the KeyONE.
The BlackBerry Motion is a great device for business people with productivity in mind, but just an okay phone for everyone else.
BlackBerry isn’t a top player in the smartphone landscape anymore, and it hasn’t been for quite some time.
However, unlike Nokia, it hasn’t completely disappeared; it just maintained a retrenched, low-key profile, and kept making devices that some people chose either for security reasons, their need for a productivity-oriented device, the presence of a physical keyboard, or a combination of the above.
Tech: BlackBerry’s latest smartphone will satisfy workaholics and BlackBerry fans, but no one else
