Blackberry DTEK60 impressions!
Finally! Blackberry has come up with a phone that packs some respectable flagship specs of the present day. It's called the DTEK60. But after the mediocre BlackBerry Priv and the immediate mid range predecessor DTEK50, what's new here? These are my first impressions of the new BlackBerry flagship.
We see a lot of the design elements from the DTEK50 are carried over to this one too, like the oddly placed power button on the top left side and the convenience key on the right hand side. But the fibre frame is replaced with a more durable aluminum frame. The back is made out of glass this time, though it doesn't seem as tough as a gorilla glass back, like the ones on the galaxy phones. Maybe it's just regular tempered glass. It still looks and feels great anyway. There's a USB type C port this time, so that's good.
The phone has gotten a lot slimmer than its sibling, measuring less than 7 mm! It reminds me of the unnecessarily thin iPhone 6 and of course, the galaxy S6. Both were 6.9 mm thin and had terrible battery life. Speaking of battery life, the DTEK60 has a 3000 mAh unit which blackberry claims will last 24 hrs of mixed usage. I'll comment on it more, if I do a full review.
The display is a 5.5' QHD AMOLED panel with 534 ppi this time. It's very sharp and bright, though not as rich in colors as a Samsung super-AMOLED panel or even an LG Quantum IPS panel. Maybe it's just an issue with the sRGB display mode. A software update could probably give out a wider synthetic color gamut.
The cameras got a bump up in resolution. The rear camera is a 21 mp sensor and the front one is an 8 mp sensor, both with f/2.0 aperture and an LED flash. Camera app also allots you certain amount of manual controls like ISO, shutter speed and everything. The camera quality seems pretty good as of now. Again, I'll post my thoughts in the full review. It's always nice to see higher resolution in a smartphone camera sensor anyway. It leaves more room to crop and zoom.
There is now a fingerprint sensor on the rear, now the camera. That was probably the only missing feature of the DTEK50, and now it's there. It's very fast and reliable, no issues there. The software is stock android marshmallow, not Nougat as I expected. The UI is silky smooth, as it is powered by the Snapdragon 820 and 4GB of RAM. There are some neat animations and graphics changes done to the UI, such as the recent apps screen shows the apps in tiles format, as on a Windows phone screen. Not the usual card swiping deal that we see. There's blackberry DTEK center that enders all your data, apps, messages and everything. All that is needed on a business oriented phone anyway. Blackberry was famous for that kind of stuff and now it's bringing it back, on Android's Linux kernel😎👍.
I was sad to hear that blackberry was sitting down smartphone manufacturing and even though this phone is not actually made by BlackBerry, I'm still glad they released it. I really hope that the DTEK60 can convince the public, to give the BlackBerry boys a second chance😅.
We see a lot of the design elements from the DTEK50 are carried over to this one too, like the oddly placed power button on the top left side and the convenience key on the right hand side. But the fibre frame is replaced with a more durable aluminum frame. The back is made out of glass this time, though it doesn't seem as tough as a gorilla glass back, like the ones on the galaxy phones. Maybe it's just regular tempered glass. It still looks and feels great anyway. There's a USB type C port this time, so that's good.
The phone has gotten a lot slimmer than its sibling, measuring less than 7 mm! It reminds me of the unnecessarily thin iPhone 6 and of course, the galaxy S6. Both were 6.9 mm thin and had terrible battery life. Speaking of battery life, the DTEK60 has a 3000 mAh unit which blackberry claims will last 24 hrs of mixed usage. I'll comment on it more, if I do a full review.
The display is a 5.5' QHD AMOLED panel with 534 ppi this time. It's very sharp and bright, though not as rich in colors as a Samsung super-AMOLED panel or even an LG Quantum IPS panel. Maybe it's just an issue with the sRGB display mode. A software update could probably give out a wider synthetic color gamut.
The cameras got a bump up in resolution. The rear camera is a 21 mp sensor and the front one is an 8 mp sensor, both with f/2.0 aperture and an LED flash. Camera app also allots you certain amount of manual controls like ISO, shutter speed and everything. The camera quality seems pretty good as of now. Again, I'll post my thoughts in the full review. It's always nice to see higher resolution in a smartphone camera sensor anyway. It leaves more room to crop and zoom.
There is now a fingerprint sensor on the rear, now the camera. That was probably the only missing feature of the DTEK50, and now it's there. It's very fast and reliable, no issues there. The software is stock android marshmallow, not Nougat as I expected. The UI is silky smooth, as it is powered by the Snapdragon 820 and 4GB of RAM. There are some neat animations and graphics changes done to the UI, such as the recent apps screen shows the apps in tiles format, as on a Windows phone screen. Not the usual card swiping deal that we see. There's blackberry DTEK center that enders all your data, apps, messages and everything. All that is needed on a business oriented phone anyway. Blackberry was famous for that kind of stuff and now it's bringing it back, on Android's Linux kernel😎👍.
I was sad to hear that blackberry was sitting down smartphone manufacturing and even though this phone is not actually made by BlackBerry, I'm still glad they released it. I really hope that the DTEK60 can convince the public, to give the BlackBerry boys a second chance😅.