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Originally Posted by emai7s2
Thanks for the BB report. How about battery life, viewing videos, etc?
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Battery life is benchmark.
My iPhone 4S never makes an entire day, usually the battery is drained around noon.
Here I easily can make an entire day and it still holds up to 50%.
Videos work as expected. The display is great, nothing to complain. Given the square format, you either have to accept black bars or zoom and loose some information.
Not an issue for me, I won't watch movies on such a small display.
But of course the square form can have the same problems with some apps. If they're not optimized to the "exotic" ratio, you either loose information or it gets kind of cramped. Most of the times it's no problem, but sometimes for example the start screen of some apps looks a bit distorted.
I search for apps in the BlackBerry store first. They all work flawlessly. Then I check the Amazon app store. Here it's a bit more critical, but most apps work fine. Of course you don't find everything in Amazon, they lack the entire Google portfolio for example. Last but not least I've sideloaded the app "Snap". Here you can log into your Google Play account and install most apps you find in Google. Only problem: Quite a few Apps (Google, but 3rd party as well) ask for Google Play Services. Without those, Google Maps or Tripadvisor for example don't work. I haven't found a workaround yet, those apps for now simply don't work.