bluenote
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I tried the z10 for a day (I lost my iPhone 5 so seemed like a good time).
The browser was very fast--impressive. Especially since I have a playbook that I got cheap and its browser is way slower than this one. Since my iPhone was lost (and then stolen), I could not compare browser speeds with iPhone but I am sure you can find tests on the web.
Coming from a webOS device, I appreciated the gestures instead of a physical home button although it took some time to figure my way around the device.
I liked also the fact that I could swap batteries.
I could see that putting all the email and twitter social messages into the hub could be useful if I used all those ways to communicate as it would be really fast to reply. Since I only use a few of those avenues to communicate I did not need the hub and in fact it seemed cluttered to me.
I am for having alternatives to iPhone other than android so I would consider this as a second phone. I am not crazy though, about android apps as they are indiscriminate in the way they ask for permissions (a wallpaper app needs access to messages and web history really???). The most attractive thing may be the famed Blackberry security so that would limit one mostly to the blackberry apps.
I am also unsure about the fate of the OS since less than 5 million phones were sold and it seems like the older OS is selling more phones. Blackberry recently announced that they were outsourcing their phones to Foxconn rather than producing themselves so they will turn solely into a software company. I am not sure if the Foxconn phones would be the older or new OS although there seems to be software leaks for the new OS still coming on the site. Verizon notoriously slow in updating software so they are at least one iteration behind and I imagine there is not a lot of incentive for them to test the new software iterations since the user base is small although one encouraging thing is that Verizon is the carrier who is carrying the latest z30 device that came out in the fall.
I would buy one as a second device.
The browser was very fast--impressive. Especially since I have a playbook that I got cheap and its browser is way slower than this one. Since my iPhone was lost (and then stolen), I could not compare browser speeds with iPhone but I am sure you can find tests on the web.
Coming from a webOS device, I appreciated the gestures instead of a physical home button although it took some time to figure my way around the device.
I liked also the fact that I could swap batteries.
I could see that putting all the email and twitter social messages into the hub could be useful if I used all those ways to communicate as it would be really fast to reply. Since I only use a few of those avenues to communicate I did not need the hub and in fact it seemed cluttered to me.
I am for having alternatives to iPhone other than android so I would consider this as a second phone. I am not crazy though, about android apps as they are indiscriminate in the way they ask for permissions (a wallpaper app needs access to messages and web history really???). The most attractive thing may be the famed Blackberry security so that would limit one mostly to the blackberry apps.
I am also unsure about the fate of the OS since less than 5 million phones were sold and it seems like the older OS is selling more phones. Blackberry recently announced that they were outsourcing their phones to Foxconn rather than producing themselves so they will turn solely into a software company. I am not sure if the Foxconn phones would be the older or new OS although there seems to be software leaks for the new OS still coming on the site. Verizon notoriously slow in updating software so they are at least one iteration behind and I imagine there is not a lot of incentive for them to test the new software iterations since the user base is small although one encouraging thing is that Verizon is the carrier who is carrying the latest z30 device that came out in the fall.
I would buy one as a second device.