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Sorry, i meant outright, not unlocked.

So shopblackberry will sell for $950 unlocked, and carriers will sell it outright (but locked) for ~$800?

It just seems kinda weird to me haha

Very weird as they've always price their phones under off contract prices of carriers

From Shopblackberry:

Sub-Total:$899.00
Shipping:$0.00
Tax:$107.88

Total: $1006.8

Just going to get mine off Bellus and robbers.

Just got the mail from Blackberry that I can pre-order now for $899

I personally dont think its worth the extra $100 + tax to get an unlock priv

You can unlock phone for like 20 bucks or less

am due for an upgrade so ill pick one up from telus

Telus said they will release their priv nov 6th

Amazing advertisement, BlackBerry should be spreading the news left right and centre. Perfect

Got my case ordered today. Nov 6 can't come any sooner!

More goodies. officially one week to go.

Simulator now available on Telus website

http://www.telus.com/en/bc/support/a...lackberry-priv

Ordered mine of shopblackberry , 1006 tax in.

Models you can get in Canada:

STV100-1 [$899] (Shopblackberry) - comes with wireless charging, factory unlocked also meaning faster updates

STV100-3 (confirmed) [$799] (Robellus) which is what every carrier in Canada will have , no wireless charging + factory locked and won't update as quick as it needs to be carrier approved but has more network bands.

Interesting... I'll cancel my reservation from Rogers if that's the case.

I bought 2; 1 from Shopblackberry for $1006.88 and 1 from Ingranmicro for $963.19 taxes in. Will be keeping whichever comes first and will sell the other at cost. Let me know if anyone is interested

Got my hardshell case in the mail yesterday. Thought I'd share some photos and side-by-side comparisons with the Passport. First thought that came to mind was "wow, things fucken huge!" And as you'll see, it's nearly as wide as the passport.

Spoiler!

well this is a huge disappointment

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Quote Originally Posted by privberry View Post
From my experience over the last week I would say [the Hub] is barely intergrated. It sits on top of Android like a fancy notification center and nothing more. It is not the Hub you know from BB10 by a long shot. It only really handles email. When you tap any other message like Twitter or SMS it opens a different app. Some apps do not intergrate like Whatsapp so when you hear a message tone you check the hub and see nothing and have to check the stock Android notification center. At best Hub is pretty useless. At worst its hugely annoying for the reason just described.

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The Flow is SORELY missed. Hub is pretty useless on the Priv for a number of reasons:

You cannot peek into it.

It does not have apps like Whatspp integrated so when you hear a message tone you have to check both the hub and the standard Android notification tray to find out who is messaging you.

Apps like Twitter show all interactions in the Hub like retweets and favs not just personal messages and I cannot see a way to filter it so it is only personal messages so Twitter is not useful in the Hub at all.

It doubles up on notifications - if you get an SMS you see a spark on both the SMS app and the Hub icon. The spark remains if you read the SMS in the SMS app so you have to clear it twice.

I have gone back to a home screen with the main messaging apps on and when I hear a notification sound I first look at which app has the spark on it. That seems to me like the 2006 way of doing things.

When in the Hub you swipe the screen to the right to see your individual accounts just like on BB10... but if you swipe in the middle of the screen it tries to delete or file away the message you had your finger on. On BB10 swiping on a message in the Hub didn't do anything but in the Android Hub it registers as an interaction. That means if you want to get to account view, you have to swipe from the farthest left pixel of the screen avoiding the message, but that's hard to do because the farthest left pixel is down the side of the cell phone due to the curve screen.

Twitter, SMS, Facebook are all just notifications in the Hub and you cannot reply to them. Tapping a message opens the Messenger SMS app to actually reply.

Also if you see the spark on an app and go into it to check who has messaged you the spark remains until you go into the Android notification hub and dismiss the notification. It doubles the work you do to check notifications.

In short the Hub is pretty redundant as it stands and I miss it sorely. I hope they are working on it.

I ordered the sync pod and hardshell case bundle for 55 tax in :)

i dont like that write up about the hub. waiting for those of you who ordered the phone to use it and comment on everything before i pull the trigger. actually very excited for this phone but not worth it for me to switch to it if the hub isn't integrated seamlessly.

I feel like hub will be better than what it is now because it is just the early stages of it , more and more updates will help improve the hub experience.

Im also waiting for knight604 to do a review but I will buy it for sure. The delivery date has been pushed to nov 9th

Even if they shipped on the 6th , it wouldn't have gotten to anyone in canada as most couriers do not deliver on weekend. I wouldn't expect my device until the 13th to be safe.

Also the 11th is a holiday so another day they won't be delivering.

Tempted to go to telus on friday to mess around with it :p

Lol I was thinking the exact same thing