The touch experience is very much as it is on the BlackBerry Z10 and involves the same gestures to get around. That means you are forced to use the BB Q10 as a touch and type device: you have to touch the screen to operate the phone, whereas the last generation of devices you could still navigate without touch. There's no home page either, as BlackBerry 10 wants to do things differently. You can't hit the end call button to go home, because there is no end call button. Losing the central waistband of controls means that navigation of the BlackBerry Q10 is very different from previous Qwerty devices.
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The break in the keys is a nice clean look however and the overall size of the keyboard is similar to previous devices. All those little rolls of the thumb to hit the key you want still work, so you'll feel right at home.īlackBerry tells us that the frets have been made larger to make it easier to feel exactly where you are but we can't say we really had any difficulty with it. If you've been a BlackBerry user then you'll find that the keyboard action is very much like second nature. We like the design and the keyboard experience, but beyond that communication experience, there's little that's unique and BB10 is still some way behind rival offerings.Īlthough the keys are now arranged slightly flatter than the Bold 9900, we found that we were instantly into the keyboard flow again. In summary, we like the BlackBerry Q10 because it embodies those things that we love best about BlackBerry. As contacts have moved away from the BlackBerry platform, we've been using WhatsApp and Skype more and more, and those apps and services excel on other platforms. But like the Z10, there’s little here that's unique besides BBM.
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But the Q10 is different, because it offers you that keyboard experience that's now extremely rare.Īs a pure communicator, we'd take the Q10 over the Z10, because you really can just knuckle down and get on with it. In that it has an advantage over the Z10, which doesn’t bring with it quite the wow factor that you'll get from the iPhone 5, HTC One or even the Nokia Lumia 820. The browser is better, the UI is more sophisticated and the experience is much more comparable with rival smartphones than the last generation of BlackBerry smartphones. It's more up to date, it's a better performer all round and still delivers the elements we love about BlackBerry. It's a step forward for BlackBerry's Qwerty device, it offers the reassurance of a physical keyboard that's great to use, with tried and tested shortcuts, and improvements to many areas of the OS. Set alongside the BlackBerry Bold, we'd take the BlackBerry Q10 any time. For those still loving the BlackBerry Bold, or one of the lower-tier Curves, then BlackBerry Q10 is the obvious device to aspire to.īut is the BlackBerry Q10 the crowning glory of BB10, or has the sun set on the BlackBerry empire? The defining moment for BlackBerry may well be in experience of the Q10. The BlackBerry Z10 has some shortcomings: the battery isn't great, there are some UI holes that make the experience feel a little more fiddly than you might want it to, and there's nothing that's really distinct, that you can't already get on other platforms, all compounded by slow adoption of apps. A brand new platform, with a brand new device, that looks to offer all the consumer joy of other large-screened devices, while retaining much of what BlackBerry holds important. With the BlackBerry Z10, that is exactly the aim. It retains the keyboard that BB owners know and love, sticking to the tried and tested route, rather than taking on the big rivals from Apple and Samsung with a touch-only device.
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(Pocket-lint) - The BlackBerry Q10 is the BlackBerry of BlackBerry users.