REVIEW: The new BlackBerry phone is safe in every sense of the word

BlackBerry doesn't have much left. Its operating system is dead. Its apps are unbundled. Physical keyboards are a relic. People don't talk about it anymore.

This, I imagine, is how you end up naming a phone the DTEK50 - you see the writing on the wall. And indeed, the Waterloo, Ontario company's latest handset feels like it's coming from a company that's been stripped for parts.

This isn't a moonshot like the Priv; it's an inoffensive and altogether safe stab at a certain sect of privacy-conscious users, most of whom would already consider BlackBerry in the first place.

At $300, though, it's also affordable. That opens it up to a much larger potential audience than the $700 Priv ever could. After using DTEK50 for the past week, though, I can't really see it gaining much traction outside of the BlackBerry niche. Here's what I mean.