BlackBerry CEO John Chen stumbles through a demo of the BlackBerry Priv

When you’re the CEO of a company, you’re probably pretty busy, so you can’t exactly be expected to know all the nuances of your product at the drop of a hat (despite the fact that some CEOs do). Unfortunately, that was made painfully obvious during BlackBerry CEO John Chen’s demo of the BlackBerry Priv, BlackBerry’s first Android-powered smartphone, as he stumbled through showing off some of the Priv’s features. Most notably, the Priv was extremely slow to react when first interacted with and Chrome took quite awhile to start up as well. Check out the whole demo below:

It also doesn’t help the credentials of your device when you say things like “all the latest Qualcomm specs, and the cameras, and all that good stuff”. We do have to cut Chen some slack as this will be his company’s first Android device, but you’d think he would have been briefed on how to at least use the phone before an interview. Despite this rather awkward showing of the Priv, we’re still very interested to see what the device has to offer when in the hands of someone who knows what they’re doing – presumably when the device actually launches this year.

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Source: BNN via Droid-life