The recent launch of the BlackBerry Priv showed the company could create a high-end Android smartphone. A video dives into a graphical assembly of the Priv, showing from the inside-out how its many parts come together to form the smartphone.
From the curved display to the slider mechanism to the physical keyboard, the video shows how all these little parts come together to form the smartphone. Granted, there's not a lot of explaining what the parts do (though you can generally infer from the video), and it's really whetted our appetite for a proper deep-dive into the assemblage of the Priv, it does offer a brief overview of how BlackBerry's first Android smartphone was designed and built on their years of smartphone hardware expertise.
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