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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a recap of the blackberry 10 launch so not only did they announce the brand new operating system but they also announced a pair of new phones to go with it so let's take a look starting with the phones they announced one with a keyboard which is going to be the q10 and one with AD the keyboard which is going to be the z10 so I think the z10 is going to be more than mainstream option it does have a 4.2 inch touch screen as well as a pretty good-looking design it is packing some pretty decent specs however so that 4.2 inch display has a resolution of 1280 by 768 giving a very high pixel density comparable to what you would find on the iPhone and some other high-end handsets and on top of that it also is powered by a dual-core 1.5 gigahertz processor they weren't exactly specific on what this is but my money would be on a Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 you'll also find two gigabytes of RAM on board as well as 16 gigabytes of storage built in now something I think a lot of people are going to like is that the back plate is removable so that means that you can go ahead and swap the battery the SIM card as well as at an SD card of up to 32 gigabytes as far as the cameras go it sports an 8 megapixel shooter around back with 1080p video recording as well as a front facing camera with 720p video if you're looking for a keyboard the q10 is where it's at so this looks much more like a typical blackberry and if I trust them to do anything right it's convenient awesome physical keyboard however this actually does look pretty nice is if you flip it over to the back as a special glass woven material which blackberry was very very eager to kind of talk about and say how amazing it is it's probably not all that special but does give it a very nice look to the device this is also powered by a dual-core processor unfortunately they weren't very specific as far as the specs go so a lot of the stuff we'll probably find out a little bit later as the z10 will be coming out much sooner than the q10 however what you can't expect is a 3.1 inch touchscreen of course with a resolution of 720 x 720 which again should actually be a very nice screen the start of the show is definitely blackberry 10 so they pretty much removed everything as far as the old blackberry OS and I've taken a few bits from the playbook OS but for the most part this is all new and it looks good not amazing but it looks good so the first thing that struck me is I was watching all the demos was it looked very smooth now of course this is something that we pretty much take for granted in iOS for Android Windows Phone these days but it is good to see that looks very smooth and a lot of the gestures in the multitasking we're actually really impressive one thing you won't find on any blackberry 10 smartphone is a home button so instead everything is really optimized to work with gestures for example if you want to do some multitasking you swipe in from the bottom you want to check your notifications you swipe in from the left and it seemed to work pretty well on top of that is also really optimized for one-handed use so for example the keyboard which they showed off of course the touch version of it looks really responsive and way way ahead of anything else that's out there so for example you could just not do any spaces and it would be very very smart as far as figuring out what you're saying one of the big things they were talking about is blackberry hub which basically integrates all kinds of information into a single spot now this is hardly a new idea however it looks like they did a really good implementation with this version so basically it takes a lot of different information for example facebook twitter linkedin but also takes other things for example calls emails texts calendars it all puts it into one spot so if you want to look up some information on one person maybe like a contact to whatever will populate all the rest of the information it'll all be available in one spot so for example you can look up a person's email address shoot them an email then tweet something go check on linkedin all from one spot and it looked really nice and smooth bbm also now has video chatting built-in so it looks pretty much like FaceTime nothing all that revolutionary but it is a kind of a nice feature to add and on top of that something I'm a little bit more excited about is the fact that you can screen share using BBM video chat so this is actually something really cool of course screen sharing has been around on the desktop with skype and that kind of thing but being able to actually do that from your phone is really cool it also looks like apps are going to be well taken care of so bb10 will be launching with over 70,000 now of course most of these are probably not going to be all that high quality however you will find quite a few of the standard things you would expect including twitter facebook skype kindle and much more on top of that it also does have support for android apps sort of so basically it ships with an android 2.3 virtual machine so when you want to do an android app you can kind of make it work but of course running in a virtual machine probably not going to give you the best performance but the possibility of using android apps is there the blackberry z10 will start to go on sale around the world over the next couple months so for example in the UK it actually goes on sale tomorrow however you for your live in canada can i have to wait till next month and for the United States going to have to wait until March where we'll be launching both on AT&T as well as verizon for two hundred dollars on a two-year contract anyway guys I'm curious to know what do you think about blackberry 10 as well new phones personally the q10 really doesn't do it for me I'm kind of given that physical keyboards a long time ago how did the z10 looks like something that I would be actually interested in I definitely do play doing a review on it as soon as I can get my hands on one but then I definitely be sure to let me know what you guys think in the comments below if you guys are interested in more feel free to check out some reviews I've done up some other high-end smartphones lightly if you enjoy definitely be sure to leave this video thumbs up and subscribe for more blackberry 10 content anyway guys I will catch you next time