BlackBerry Z10

BlackBerry Z10 – the latest offering by Smartphone pioneer

Introduction

BlackBerry introduced the new phone, the BlackBerry Z10 to take in charge of the smartphone market. BlackBerry Z10 is altogether a new phone with redesigned architecture, look and feel, leading to a modern and attractive smartphone product. It is packaged with powerful hardware and a modern software platform, the BlackBerry OS 10. The new Z10 has a range of latest apps for download from the BlackBerry app store, developed exclusively for this new software platform.

Design & display

With regards to the design of the phone, the new BlackBerry Z10 phone doesn’t have a physical keyboard and buttons, and sports a swish 4.2” touch screen display. The display features a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels, packing an impressive pixel density of 356 ppi. The screen size is perfect for single hand use, and is neither huge as some Android models nor too small. This gives a crystal clear display of content, giving an affable experience while viewing pictures and web surfing. With round edges, the Z10 looks quite posh and elegant. The back cover includes the BlackBerry logo, which doubles up as a NFC (Near Field Communication) antenna.

Operating system

What distinguishes the Z10 is its all new BlackBerry 10 OS platform introduced for the first time in this phone. It’s a huge overhaul from the existing BB7 plaform. This gives it a modern functionality and the OS provides an environment for modern apps. The most attractive feature of OS 10 is the gesture based interface. There are a lot of apps inbuilt and thousands of other apps, developed exclusively for BB10 platform, are available to download through the app store- BB world. One of the gesture is when you swipe from up to the right. This exposes you to the BlackBerry Hub which contains a list of all navigable items. This can be considered as the control centre of the phone.  

Camera

One of the most important and vital feature of any smartphone is the camera, and the Z10 is decorated with two cameras- an 8MP rear  facing and a 2MP front facing camera that clicks rapid pictures and captures high resolution pictures.

BB Keypad

Talking of the BlackBerry keyboard which has been the trademark aspect of any BB phones, the new Z10 doesn’t disappoint with its virtual onscreen keyboard. The keyboard offers predictive text feature which predicts the text as the user types making it easy and fast to complete the words/sentences. The buttons are also easy to tap.

Performance

The BlackBerry is powered by the 1.5 GHz dual core Qualcomm processor with 2GB of RAM which helps the phone to quickly respond to user commands and gestures. Apps are fast to load, and switching between apps is also fast and efficient. The Z10 phone battery has 1800mAh capacity, and is a powerful enough to last over 8 hours on a single charge (standard video rundown test).

Bottom line

The BlackBerry Z10 phone is a serious competition to the established top line smartphones in the market, and can give them a run for the money.              

Author Bio

Tech enthusiast and a Car Lover, Always on the lookout for the latest and coolest Gadgets. Loves Blackberry phones. Suraj also writes for Croma, an electronics megastore.