[FabriciusFab]

I know the 810 was a terrible SoC with the overheating issues, but the 808 it's pretty temperamental too. I watched a video today where it showed the temp condition and they used an LG G4 for the 808. It came above the 810 after running a geekbench test for 10 minutes, and they concluded that the 808 didn't have overheating issues, but that's not the case with the PRIV, with that in mind, knowing that the phone would overheat, wouldn't have been better to just put the 810, being more powerful? Just a thought

[mrfreeze]

I'm sure it would have cost more for starters.

[ToniCipriani]

Well if the 808 already overheats in the Priv chassis, imagine what a 810 would do.

[glwerry]

Was the 810 available when the PRIV was being designed? That would be a factor.

[mrfreeze]

Was the 810 available when the PRIV was being designed? That would be a factor.

It came out first quarter 2015 and PRIV was released November 2015.

That being said since this was BlackBerry's first try at an Android device, it was probably cutting development too close.

[Ment]

They'd have to include mittens with every PRIV sold thats why!

[FF22]

I hate to say it but it does not matter - that is not the chip they used and we are dealing with the one that they did use.

[jakie55]

If I remember correctly, the 808 is much better on power use.... but then I could remember that wrong.

[Joao Oliveira]

810 came out before the 808

[dcal1701]

They'd have to include mittens with every PRIV sold thats why!

Not a lot of mittens then.......

[cmdaga]

Try performing a factory reset on your PRIV. It is the best solution. I must have posted this in every thread related to Priv issues. :-p

Factory Reset.

Do it.

Do it.

Starsky and Hutch!

Do it!

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[glwerry]

They'd have to include mittens with every PRIV sold thats why!

Well, being a CANANDIAN company, mittens wouldn't be completely out of place, as we do get winter here!

You could perhaps spin some marketing there. Pictures of people ice-fishing, using their PRIV to warm the hands while waiting for the fish to bite.

If you were going after the serious Geek market you could make that "while waiting for the fish to BYTE".

Maybe BB missed an opportunity here!

[mrfreeze]

It would have made a negligible difference in sales.

[FF22]

Not a lot of mittens then.......

Very subtle!

[anon(679606)]

It would have made a negligible difference in sales.

Dozens

[anon(679606)]

Well if the 808 already overheats in the Priv chassis, imagine what a 810 would do.

Shoulld'a made the Blackberry logo heat-sensitive so that if the temperature exceeds Fahrenheit 451 the logo would read Samsung... mdr

[PurplePriv]

I know the 810 was a terrible SoC with the overheating issues, but the 808 it's pretty temperamental too. I watched a video today where it showed the temp condition and they used an LG G4 for the 808. It came above the 810 after running a geekbench test for 10 minutes, and they concluded that the 808 didn't have overheating issues, but that's not the case with the PRIV, with that in mind, knowing that the phone would overheat, wouldn't have been better to just put the 810, being more powerful? Just a thought

Before priv i had LG g flex 2 with SD 810. I can tell you that it's kind of the same. The flex seemed more snapy (sometimes!) and felt more powerfull ( sometimes) but i can tell you for sure that it had much worse overheating issues, at least on that specific phone. For exemple. I couldn't play Pokémon go on LG for more than 20 minutes if i was in a car or indoors wheres i didn't have problems on priv. Also games ran smoother on LG (1080p screen though) but for much shorter times. My conclusion is that 808 is theoretically worse than 810 but practically much better. The only problem that i can see is the software. If blackberry wants, they can make this phone as snappy and fluid as any other flagship. Another exemple. Sony Xperia z1 compact with cyanogenmod 13.1 is mostly as fast and usually much more fluid in opening and scrolling any app than the priv with SD 800 vs 808. It's all about the software. Anyway my priv somehow works pretty good i don't have so much to complain about as many others that I see.

[FabriciusFab]

Yeah, I'm not complaining at all, it's just a thought that crossed my mind. Not that it would've been a tremendous difference but it might have been nice to have a flagship processor. The heating issue exists with 808 already so...

<Passport SQW100-1>

[yyz321]

The 820 would've been a better choice.

[PurplePriv]

The 820 would've been a better choice.

I agree but 820 did not exist back then.

[FabriciusFab]

The best back there was the 810, can't remember if "810 v2.1" was already out.

I think that fiasco from Qualcomm did the PRIV absolutely no favors.
A year after or before and They could've packed a really good SoC, like with the DTEK60