BlackBerry Z10: Mobile Review

HIGHLIGHTS

BlackBerry Hub

Stay in touch with a single swipe. Stay close to what's important and keep everything that matters to you in one place. Simply peek into the BlackBerry® Hub from any app with just a swipe, and flow effortlessly in and out of your messages and conversations.

BlackBerry Keyboard

A smarter way to type. The new touchscreen BlackBerry® Keyboard provides an effortless typing experience. It learns your writing style and suggests words to help you type faster, more accurately and with the least amount of effort. And if you tend to mistype certain letters, the keyboard will remember and subtly adjust to make sure you hit the right key.

BBM Video with Screen Share

Share and be seen. Switch your BBM™ chat to a BBM™ Video1 conversation and talk face-to-face with those that matter to you most. Use the new Screen Share feature to show photos, your browser, or review a business document together. You can even share the view from your camera. It’s an amazing new BBM experience for BlackBerry® 10 smartphones.

Camera with Time Shift mode

Create the perfect shot every time. Pinpoint and adjust elements of your picture to get the photo you want. Time Shift mode captures milliseconds before and after your photo—so you can scroll back on the dial to open one friend’s eyes and then forward to catch your other friend smiling, before combining it all to create the perfect picture.

FEATURES

BLACKBERRY REMEMBER

Create. Organize. Act. Managing a busy project? Planning this weekend's party? The BlackBerry Z10 has the tools you need to get things done on the move. Group relevant photos, lists, messages and web links into one place with BlackBerry® Remember – then sync tasks with your Microsoft® Outlook® calendar. Plus, with Documents To Go™ and Adobe® Reader® built in, you can update spreadsheets, documents and presentations on the move.

BLACKBERRY BALANCE

One device for work and play. Use your BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone for work, and access email, apps and documents without compromising your personal content. BlackBerry® Balance™ keeps your personal information separate and private from your work data. Switch between your profiles with one simple gesture.

INTELLIGENT CALANDER

Do more. Manage less. Spend less time managing schedules and tasks – BlackBerry® Calendar makes managing your busy schedule simple.

When you create a new appointment, BlackBerry Calendar suggests who to invite based on your existing events and who you invited last time. It will even show you friends’ recent messages and social updates – so instead of ‘How are you?’ you’ll know to say ‘How was your holiday?’

SUPER FAST BROWSING

Powerful, responsive, fast. Discover a BlackBerry® Browser with speed, simplicity, powerful page rendering and built-in sharing to your favorite social networks. Found something you want to show your friends? Send a link through email or post it to the social app of your choice – all it takes is a couple of gestures.

Over time, your BlackBerry smartphone remembers how you like to share – just another example of how BlackBerry® 10 adapts to you and fits your life.

TRUSTED SECURITY

Stay secure. You don’t want to worry about whether your stuff is safe. BlackBerry is famous for ensuring your messages, photos, apps and content stay private.

Plus, with built-in features like BlackBerry® Protect™, a lost or stolen smartphone doesn’t have to be the end of the world. You can simply lock or wipe your smartphone remotely so your data can’t be accessed.

SHARING MADE EASY WITH NFC

Share with a tap. Tap your smartphone against another NFC enabled BlackBerry® device to add a BBM™ contact, swap a photo, discover apps or even connect to a headset. Just choose what you want to share, then bring your smartphones together and BlackBerry® Tag will do the rest.

VOICE CONTROL

Turn words into action. Send a BBM™ message, schedule a meeting, update your social networks, or open an app when your hands are full – just by using your voice.

Voice Control recognizes natural speech patterns, so you can talk naturally and always be understood. You can use Voice Control anywhere you can type, so it’s easy to dictate a document, compose an email or search your smartphone.

EDITING AND SHARING PHOTOS

Capture every moment. Take great shots with the super-sharp 8MP camera, or switch to the front facing camera and be part of the scene. Crop, enhance and apply artistic filters, then use the Story Maker app to weave those moments together and create the perfect movie.

Display your masterpiece on the big screen for all to see. Simply connect to your TV via HDMI or tap 'Play on' to link wirelessly through DLNA. You can share with your social networks too just by using a few simple gestures.

SHARP RESPONSIVE DISPLAY

Beautiful display. See the world in stunning detail with the all-touch BlackBerry® Z10. Photos, videos, websites and apps all come alive on the large 4.2" touchscreen. With its razor-sharp 365 ppi display and new, thinner screen design, whatever you’re doing, you’ll enjoy a highly responsive and precise experience.

Apps & Media

BlackBerry® World™ now gives you access to more of what you love. Download apps, games, music, videos, books, magazines and more. Plus, the new BlackBerry World storefront gives you recommendations so it's easy to find something new.

SPECIFICATION

Specification	BlackBerry Z10
Internal storage	16GB
Touch display	4.2"
Rear camera	8MP
Ready	4GLTE
Resolution, Ppi	1280 x 768, 356
Talk time (3G)	Up to 10 hours
Standby time	Up to 13 days
Video recording	1080p HD
Memory card	MicroSD
Operating system	BlackBerry® 10
Get the full Specification at:	Specification: BlackBerry Z10

ACCESSORIES

BlackBerry Mini Stereo Speaker

Play music wirelessly from a Bluetooth® enabled smartphone, or take an important conference call on the run. With a light, clip-on design the BlackBerry® Mini Stereo Speaker can be worn on a bag strap or placed on a table.

BlackBerry Z10 Cases

Premium carrying solutions designed to protect and personalize your BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone

See more accessories at: Blackberry Accessries

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Nokia: Is to Get Payments From RIM as Companies End Disputes

Nokia the Finnish mobile-phone maker struggling to reverse a slide in sales, agreed to a patent-licensing deal with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), ending all legal disputes between the companies.

RIM will make a one-time and “on-going” payments to Nokia, the Espoo, Finland-based company said today. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

Nokia is trying to add revenue from its patent portfolio as sales at its unprofitable smartphone unit drop. It may get a one-time payment of $150 million to $200 million, and about $50 million annually over the next 10 to 15 years, depending on when the patents expire, according to estimates by Hannu Rauhala, an analyst at Pohjola Bank Oyj in Helsinki.

Nokia has sold units and assets including its headquarters to boost its cash position. Its cash reserves have shrunk by about half in the past five years and will drop below 3 billion euros by year-end, Standard & Poor’s estimated in August. Its debt is at junk status at the three main rating companies.

“The impact of this deal is twofold: on the one hand, it shows the upside potential for Nokia to cash in from similar legal cases,” Sami Sarkamies, an analyst at Nordea Bank AB in Helsinki, said by phone today. “Secondly, the financial impact will help Nokia beef up its cash position and bring in new revenues that give Nokia time to turn its loss-making smartphone unit around.”

Shares of Nokia declined 2.2 percent to 3.10 euros at 2:34 p.m. Helsinki time. RIM advanced 3.6 percent at the close in New York yesterday.
Similar Disputes

Sarkamies estimated that Nokia may receive no more than 100 million euros ($132 million) annually from RIM for probably a five-year period, and that the one-time payment could be several hundred million euros.

In May, Nokia said it filed patent-infringement lawsuits against Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM, HTC Corp. (2498) and ViewSonic Corp. over inventions in mobile devices including phones and tablets. The RIM deal signals that the disputes with HTC and ViewSonic could be settled within six months, Sarkamies said.

Today’s agreement is less lucrative than the one Nokia signed with Apple Inc. last year because RIM’s device volumes are “so small and the BlackBerry maker is going through such difficult times,” he said.

RIM said yesterday that BlackBerry shipments slumped to 6.9 million last quarter. Its PlayBook tablet shipments were 255,000.

Both Nokia and RIM are struggling to compete with Apple’s iPhone and smartphones using Google Inc.’s Android software, including those from market leader Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) Android and Apple accounted for 90 percent of global smartphone shipments last quarter, compared with 4.3 percent for the BlackBerry and less than that for Nokia, according to research firm IDC.

Source:
Bloomberg

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