Quite an old joke.
I do miss my old Blackberry 9900

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    Obama was forced to use a Blackberry while president and he hated it.

    “I get the thing, and they’re all like, ‘Well, Mr. President, for security reasons … it doesn’t take pictures, you can’t text, the phone doesn’t work, … you can’t play your music on it,’” Obama said during an appearance on The Tonight Show this week. “Basically, it’s like, does your three-year-old have one of those play phones?”

    https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11910306/obama-upgrades-from-blackberry

    Edit: Ugh, I hate the way The Verge totally failed at punctuation.

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      That quote is about the replacement phone, not the Blackberry

      isn’t thrilled with this new phone either

      Any secure phone will have the same restrictions - the manufacturer doesn’t make much difference in this case

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      The quote is about Obama being forced to give up his beloved BlackBerry and move to a secure phone.