[profeta]

> BlackBerry Priv

YES!

i bought this phone only to "vote with my wallet" that more companies should make android phones with keyboards. It is pure garbage in any other aspect. It is the lame phablet size. The keyboard doesn't even have a DOT or COMMA key, let alone numbers, tab, etc.

The only redeeming features is the OLED screen and keyboard. But then they made the software for the keyboard pure garbage, and filled the OS with bloatware.

I've been waiting for root on this phone so i can start to hack away for months. But blackberry with its cave man corporate mentality, thinks that giving out root will scare the 5 old men still buying their products. I can't even buy a developer version like motorola (which have the same mentality) allowed before.

So, thank you for the sloppy coding, Qualcomm! Thank you for not doing your homework, Blackberry! and thank you AT&T for holding OS updates until you can bother to patch your bloatware!

[Karunamon]

I have one of these phones, and this was my first thought too. "Woohoo! Root vulnerability! Now I can run what I want on my own device!"

:(

[mdaniel]

As a former Samsung owner, that's actually the same feeling I get every time I heard of an Android vuln but definitely without the frowny face. I only get frowny face when the exploits don't work on my specific device. Or, rather, used to then I noped right out of that situation and got a Nexus device.

In the same way I never intend to get "free phone with contract" ever again, I hope to never again buy a device that is subject to vendor "enhancements."

[jugbee]

Do you really own the same priv as i do? Because i sit with a superb phone on august 5th patch.

Dedicated Comma, dot, numbers keys? Buy a laptop. Or stay with priv, double-click alt and voila! Use all those buttons you named - write numbers and put comma in between without doing anything else.

I regret accidently upvoting your unsubstantiated rant

[profeta]

the priv keyboard is nice, if you have the blackberry keyboard selected.

But as soon as you close the physical keyboard, and get the blackberry soft keyboard, it is pure garbage! years behind the most basic free keyboard. The top 3 softkeyboards for me (swype, google, hacker) have zero support for anything on the hardware keyboard. I can't navigate the cursor, i can't double click alt, i can't swype up, heck i can't even get a word prediction/correction band to show up!

So it is a futile fight with which keyboard you have selected. Then add two languages and now every time you want to switch the language, you also risk switching the keyboard you have selected. It is brain damaging to try to use it.

now, if i have root and can hook up to keyboard open activities on all keyboards (or if blackberry released the source to their keyboard i wouldn't need to do that) i can check if the physical keyboard is open and change it or something.