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sidtek50 The reason it's a disaster is because in the UK, Samsung, Motorola and Apple rule the roost. You'll see HTC and OnePlus and the very occasional Windows Phone, but when you ask people if they've heard if they've heard of the Priv, they say no. DTEK, no.
I was out in Liverpool, UK with my DTEK50 on launch and there were 0 adverts throughout the city for the DTEK50, but there were adverts for the IDOL 4. I couldn't believe it...
Blackberry didn't advertise the Priv well, the DTEKs and this phone looks to follow the same trend. "Security blah blah". No one cares about security. Only nerds care about security. And they're pricing this phone higher than you can buy an S6 Edge or an S7. It's higher than the new Moto G5 will be and it's higher than the 64gb iPhone SE.
It's simply DOA. No one but the most hardcore Blackberry fan will buy this at it's current price. Try and convince Samsung, Motorola and iPhone users to buy this.
Blackberry and TCL need to release cheaper devices along the same line as the Moto G4 and Moto play and gain popularity rather than release overpriced devices and extremely disappointing launches.