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Introducing new smartphone BlackBerry® Q10. Every feature, every detail of the BlackBerry® 10 smartphone was crafted with precision and designed to perform flawlessly. It offers its users the speed of a dual-core processor and connectivity helping them to always be on the move.
Noticed the flashing red light? Now you don’t need to close what you are doing and look for what you are afraid of missing. Simply log into the BlackBerry® Hub from anywhere and access your messages and conversations.
The classic BlackBerry® keyboard has been redesigned to help you type faster, more accurately, and with less effort. Reply to emails, stay connected on BBM or work on an important document on the go. Express your thoughts with new keyboard BlackBerry® Q10 will be even nicer and lighter.
Share your screen with BBM™ Video . Switch from BBM™ Chat on video with one gesture and meet your friends and colleagues face to face. Show them a photo, a browser page, or even a work document during your BBM voice conference—make your video calls more personal and meaningful with Screen Share. You can even show your contact what you see in front of you using your camera. This is the new BBM experience for the next generation of BlackBerry® smartphones
BlackBerry® Remember lets you easily create and organize your interests, ideas, and projects. With BlackBerry Remember, you'll never forget a single idea or project by saving the photos, lists, messages, emails, and links you need in a way that's convenient for you.
Design & Performance
Every millimeter of this device has been thought out and created with a specific purpose, starting from the 3.1-inch OLED display with 330 dpi, ergonomic keyboard and ending with a special durable and lightweight material for the phone. Here is a smartphone that offers excellent performance and ease of use.
Bring your BlackBerry® smartphone to the office and access work email, apps, and content. All your personal applications and information will be separated from your work ones. Easily switch between work and personal apps with a single gesture. Having one device for both work and personal purposes has never been more convenient.
BlackBerry Calendar
Create schedules and appointments in seconds. BlackBerry® Calendar helps you manage your busy schedule with ease. Every time you create a new event, your smartphone predicts and suggests who to invite based on your previously planned events, invitees, and topics. It'll even show you recent messages from friends and social updates, so you can skip questions like "How are you?" and go straight to "How was your vacation?"
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Finding apps is easier than ever with recommendations based on similar purchases. Choose best apps devices such as BlackBerry® Travel or Dropbox™ and share them with your friends and colleagues via social networks. Now it's so easy.
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BlackBerry Tag (NFC)
It's never been easier to add someone to BBM™, exchange contact information, send a document, send a photo, connect to NFC, or even search for apps - just hold your BlackBerry® Q10 smartphone close to another device. BlackBerry® Tag with NFC technology allows you to quickly and easily share information between BlackBerry smartphones just by touching them to each other - no additional menus, settings or difficulties. Just place your smartphones nearby and BlackBerry Tag will do everything.
Attention! BlackBerry phones running OS 10 do not support the BIS service. Now access to the Internet, setup mailboxes has become easier and does not require the connection of special services from cellular operators.
Additional accessories for your smartphone
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One day I bought a Blackberry. This was two and a half years ago, when I did not yet recognize the iPhone and was seriously looking for something new for myself, interesting and preferably functional. The harsh design and legendary reputation captivated and swirled BIS into the whirlpool, unlocks, Wi-Fi settings, installing applications through App World and constant hassle with service books. This is the fate of many who choose “gray” BBs.
That smartphone today lies in a box somewhere in another apartment. Physical keys have finally become bad manners, and a qwerty keyboard on a smartphone today can only scare people. And the device itself is very sluggish and not even suitable for active web surfing. Either way Blackberry Q10. Modern operating system OS 10 plus a bold and at the same time strict design - these qualities fit the criteria for choosing the second main “handset” of an iPhone owner or flagships from other manufacturers. Let's take a closer look.
As you know, earlier this year, Research in Motion took a bold step and went all-in by changing its name after its most famous, key product - Blackberry smartphones. And at the same time, she announced a complete reboot of the line of devices, announcing the release of the Blackberry Z10 and Q10 - an entirely touchscreen smartphone and a more traditional “communicator” with a QWERTY keyboard layout. Both run on the latest edition of QNX OS - BB's proportional answer to the eclipsing popularity of iOS and Android.
Reviews of the Q10 are already a dime a dozen on the Internet. I tried to consider the device from a special point of view - as a person who needs a second device for calls, mail and social services, as well as for the inevitable visits to pages on the Internet. Many people choose some cheap dialer for the role of a backup “handset,” but Blackberry is a thing of a different class. There is no shame in taking the Q10 with you as your main device, which is why the scope of use for such a device is noticeably wider.
Design
The time has long passed when manufacturers boldly experimented with new body materials, much less came up with new shapes. Black and white rectangles with rounded corners reign supreme, and the rear panels are in most cases covered with “cheap” plastic. Blackberry Q10 is not like that.
The back panel of the new BB smartphone is not just covered, but almost entirely made of carbon fiber or, popularly, “carbon fiber”. This is not a shameful sticker with a holographic effect of a once popular material, but real carbon fiber. It is also noticeable from the back of the lid.
The material is, without exaggeration, daring and quite male. In the light, it behaves appropriately, strongly highlighting one of the rows of fiber and “darkening” the other. To the touch and in the hand it feels like a regular plastic panel with a matte surface that makes it difficult to slide. The panel itself is almost weightless. And the smartphone is also not heavy.
The rest of the Q10's body is made of plastic.
Matte, rounded edges are interspersed with a sync port and a block of volume and lock keys, painted to resemble metal. The location of the lock button in the center of the top edge already seems unusual, because it requires an awkward movement to press with the same hand that holds the smartphone. You can, of course, block the device with your second hand.
Metallic paint is also present on the front panel - between the lines of the keyboard keys. And the screen in the light has a violet-blue tint, reminiscent of Galaxy smartphones.
Q10 leaves surprisingly finished impression: materials and colors combine very, very well. I really want to pick up such a smartphone - also because it stands out from the crowd of others with its main “trick”. The signature portrait keyboard is back to try and prove its usefulness in 2013.
Keyboard
Research in Motion is one of the first companies to produce communicators with a portrait QWERTY keyboard. In this field, she is generally recognized as having no equal: Blackberry keyboards are considered the best in the world in terms of ergonomics, ease of use and input. For many years in a row, BB has not changed the idea and essence of the keys, and Q10 has adopted in this regard all the good things that remained from the heirs of the former greatness of the Canadians.
The QWERTY keyboard in the Q10, which is officially shipped to Russia, initially has Russian letters placed in a strange way: on one button there are simultaneously Sh And SCH, AND And D, b And Kommersant, X And E, YU And B... This format really takes a long time to get used to and is partly smoothed out both by the predictive input system and by the experience of entering letters through Alt.
Blackberry does not skimp on trifles: the keyboard has not only Alt, but also two Shift, Enter and Backspace. All these buttons make working with text much easier, especially considering the clutter of numbers, letters and symbols on each button. I can tell you from my own experience: it will take at least a couple of weeks to get used to this input method, even if you know a regular computer keyboard very well.
The keyboard implementation in Q10 is very similar to the company's previous models. The keys have a very clear, pleasant and quiet stroke. Their surface is beveled towards the center intentionally - to make working with both hands a little more convenient. The distance between the keys is quite enough for medium-sized fingers. People with “shovels” will probably have to get used to it a little longer.
The Q10 has a capacitive touch screen, so there is no optical joystick, much less a trackball, in the device. All buttons, menu items, etc. are selected manually, and this is confusing at first. Why type on a kind of physical keyboard if you still need to point at the screen? Often, however, you can get away with pressing Enter - for example, to send the typed text in a Skype chat.
Blackberry veterans may be upset by the lack of phonetic layout in the settings. Or I just didn't find it. This means that buyers of English-language Q10s - read, “gray” models - will have to purchase a spare part separately or put up with the inability to type normally in Russian without seeing the letters.
OS 10 on Blackberry Q10
Blackberry is very proud of OS 10 - operating system, which originated on the virtually defunct Playbook tablet and was more or less successfully transferred to the company’s smartphones. Unlike Blackberry OS 7 and others, OS 10 really meets many of the requirements of a modern user: it is attractive, in some places very convenient and loaded with various useful features. But there are plenty of strange moments in it.
The device desktop is a set of icons installed programs. And on its first screen there is a taskbar a la Android or iOS 7. All running programs are placed there and really work even when minimized - they exchange data on the Internet, do not break the connection, and so on. OS 10 supports full multitasking, but reserves the “right” to suspend programs that the user has not opened for a long time.
One of the most advertised features of OS 10 is Blackberry Hub, side panel, which stores and sorts alerts from all installed applications and mailboxes. Something like Notification Center. This panel is called up by swiping sideways, but for some reason not from every place or menu. Here you can see alerts from Twitter, the latest messages from Skype and much more. Not a bad implementation.
Since we're talking about applications... They are downloaded and purchased in Blackberry App World, and the main set for most is already available: Twitter, partially integrated into the system, Skype, IM+ Pro and similar multi-platform software. Otherwise, the selection and variety of App World applications does not even reach Windows Phone. And there are strange problems with performance: for example, Skype took more than twenty seconds to load, which is very, very strange for a middle-class smartphone today.
The system has a panel quick access to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and alarm clock, called from above. In general, in OS 10 there are a lot of different swipes, movements, and gestures that barely conflict with each other on the small screen of the Q10. The gesture to close applications was reminiscent of Windows 8, with one caveat - it didn’t work very well.
I couldn't resist and surfed the web in the built-in browser. Zooming and scrolling were accomplished without lag or lag, and the surfing experience was overall positive. Pages opened quickly and without problems.
The only thing that upset me was the strange fonts - after all, no one can keep up with Apple in this area.
Hardware and conclusions
Blackberry is famous for the quality of speech transmission and reception, so there were no special surprises in this regard - except that the volume of the speaker could have been higher. At the end there are two microphones that help suppress external noise. But the music speaker is blasting so loudly that only HTC One. The quality is “traditional” - i.e. not very good. The same definition can be applied to photographs from a camera: colors appear faded, and in poor lighting the quality of the photo generally drops sharply.
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The BlackBerry Q10 is the first BlackBerry 10 phone to feature a physical keyboard. It stays true to the BlackBerry traditions of yesteryear and will attract those fans who didn't want to give up a real, physical qwerty keyboard. Q10 combines the iconic form factor of older BlackBerry models with a brilliant new design that runs at full new system BlackBerry 10.
The BlackBerry Z10 laid the foundation for BlackBerry's software strategy for the coming years, and the Q10 continues along the same path, introducing the first significant update to BlackBerry OS 10 - release 10.1. This the update contains several improvements associated with a physical keyboard, for example shortcut key support. In addition to many keyboard shortcuts retained from the old days, BlackBerry introduced Instant Action combination, which complements the results of the Universal Search and allows you to immediately open the application with the desired setting. Many pre-installed applications The Q10 uses a new dark theme, which, in addition to adding flair to the appearance, helps increase battery life given the presence of an AMOLED screen. Several other improvements also benefit BlackBerry 10, such as HDR mode in the camera and improvements to notifications. On the business side, 10.1 offers additional policies and usage settings for clients connected to BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This brings back almost all the functionality that was used for older BlackBerrys that were offered to business users, for full control above mobile devices their employees. Basically, this means disabling various features and tracking user activity - a requirement of large corporations and government agencies. This is an important milestone for the new BlackBerry 10 - the corporate world has been waiting for this set of features before updating its entire fleet of BlackBerry devices.
The Q10 will ship worldwide, initially launching in the UK, Canada, and the US at the end of April. In Russia, the EuroTest device will go on sale in May 2012.
Get your thumbs ready
While the Q10's hardware is faithful to the classic BlackBerry design, the software inside BlackBerry 10 is completely free of the legacy of BlackBerry OS and gives a completely new experience to BlackBerry users.
If you're coming from an older BlackBerry, you'll find that BB10 runs surprisingly smooth and fast. Overall, it's clear that the BlackBerry Q10 is for the loyal BlackBerry users who don't buy other smartphones because they can't live without a physical keyboard. The Z10 began its journey by showing the world that BlackBerry is fighting on equal terms with the best in the world of touchscreen smartphones, and is not hastily designed after the development of QWERTY devices, as was the case with previous BlackBerry touch devices. Now that the Z10 has laid those foundations, Q10 – for fans of qwerty keyboards.
BlackBerry Q10 will be extremely popular. With the current 70 million-plus BlackBerry users loving their physical keyboard, upgrading to the Q10 should be easy once it's available on carriers around the world. There is simply no competition in this area - all rivals use the form factor of one large touch screen, leaving BlackBerry as the only device for users who want to feel real keys under their fingers. While experienced BlackBerry users will find the Q10's keyboard easy to use, there's a lot that's new that will take some getting used to. The most important thing is the classic navigation keys and trackpad are gone. It will take time to mechanically retrain the muscles to use gestures rather than click on keys to receive calls and other familiar commands.
Traditionally, QWERTY devotees have been business users who type email messages day after day and who require impeccable spell checking and enough battery life to last them all day. Thanks to the new BlackBerry's smaller screen and larger battery, the BlackBerry Q10 promises to offer good battery life, especially for those without extra charge during the day. As a result, the BlackBerry Q10 is a device somewhat familiar to us, but at the same time with modern and fast hardware, thanks to the BlackBerry 10 operating system and updated hardware.
BlackBerry Q10 Unboxing
The BlackBerry Q10 comes in yet another impressive BlackBerry package. Inside the box is Q10 purple, battery, USB charging, sync/charge cable, quality stereo headphones and manuals.
BlackBerry Q10 Features and Specifications
The Q10 has a 3.1-inch screen, 720x720 pixels, with a density of 330 pixels per inch. For comparison, the Z10 screen is 4.2 inches, 1280x768 pixels, 335 pixels per inch, and the iPhone 5 is 4 inches, 1136x640 pixels, 326 pixels per inch. And while the Q10's screen clarity is on par with the best of devices, you'll be surprised by the small size due to the presence of a physical keyboard, especially when compared to Android's giant 5-inch screens.
However, compared to any previous BlackBerry device, the Q10's specs are stellar. Inside is a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor, 2 Gigabytes of RAM, 16 Gigabytes internal memory. The main camera is 8 megapixel with autofocus (yes, no more EDOF) and a 2 megapixel front camera. LTE, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC - everything is available. Of course, the main ones are the 3.1-inch, 720x720 Super AMOLED screen and a physical full-fledged QWERTY keyboard.
For us, what stands out most among all of this is the size of the Q10's battery. With a capacity of 2100 mAh, this guy is clearly larger than what we've seen on BlackBerry to date. And when you find out that the Bold 9900 battery is only 1230 mAh, and the Z10 has 1800 mAh, you understand that you are in for excellent battery life for the Q10.
BlackBerry Q10 First impressions of the hardware
When you first pick up the BlackBerry Q10, it feels strikingly familiar. It has a classic BlackBerry design, with a physical keyboard underneath big screen. While we love the BlackBerry Z10, there's still a certain feeling of satisfaction when picking up a BlackBerry with a keyboard. Rear end Made from lightweight yet durable fiberglass with a matte finish and steel outer frame. The entire device feels sturdy, strong and will no doubt withstand the rigors of everyday use.
From the front, the Q10 simply screams BlackBerry. Beneath the 720x720 touchscreen is a full QWERTY keyboard that begs to be typed on.
On right side The device contains volume keys, and on the left - micro USB port synchronization/charging, as well as a new micro HDMI port so you can connect the Q10 to a TV or monitor.
The familiar lock/sleep/off button is located on top, and the speakers output sound from the bottom.
The Q10 will be available in both black and white variants - the only difference is that the white model has a slightly different rear panel(more details below).
BlackBerry Q10 Black version. Image gallery
BlackBerry Q10 White version. Image gallery
BlackBerry Q10 Appearance and Design
Let's take a closer look at the device. First of all, on the left side there are USB ports and micro HDMI. They're higher than they were on the Z10, which is great - now you can plug everything in without getting in the way of your typing. This was a big problem on some older ones BlackBerry phones, so we're happy to move the ports higher.
On the right side there are playback control buttons - the sound is louder, quieter and silent.
They are almost identical to the Z10 - attractively metallic, easily distinguishable to the touch.
On top there is a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, an on/off button and two holes for a noise-canceling microphone.
On the bottom side there is one speaker and the main microphone. Sorry, there are no charging contacts here.
It looks like any dock you buy (if any) will use USB.
The front panel is almost entirely occupied by the screen and backlit keyboard.
Slightly higher, there is a speaker, several sensors, a notification LED and a front camera.
On the back side, except for the camera and LED flash, you will not find anything.
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