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this video is brought to you by Coolermaster mobile featuring the jazz pro notebook stand check it out at mobile doc cooler master - usa.com welcome to my unboxing and first look at the blackberry z10 so i'm gonna open this up with saying a big thanks to Bell Mobility here in Canada for providing me with a blackberry z10 because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get my hands on this phone and as a Canadian I am extremely excited about the Zed 10 because it is one of those sort of you know you know Canadian company not formerly rim now blackberries is kind of their their their last big sort of kick at the can with blackberry 10 and I'm really really excited to try it out but the funny thing about trying it out is that I'm not actually gonna be the one trying it out doing our I switched 30-day trial with blackberry 10 is actually going to be slicks responsibility so that'll be interesting he's been a hardcore Android user for a long time and I'm I'm just fascinated to see how this goes so inside the box we find not really a whole lot there's a little tiny wall wart very very slim very very stylish very small I mean personally I prefer if they ship a bigger wall board and it charges faster but as long as it you know charges the phone and charges it adequately then I don't think we're gonna have a problem here the USB port is on the side of it just like that alright also included in the box we've got some documentation so start here which has presumably some instructions because BlackBerry 10 is all about gestures it's about getting around with gestures there's no back button there isn't even a home button there's not a single hardware button on the phone so for those of you who are used to iOS are used to Android devices where you do have hard buttons it might be a bit of a thing to adapt to now I was one of those few sort of you know demented people who thought that the BlackBerry PlayBook was awesome at the time and really enjoyed the gesture based navigation so maybe when slicks done with the z10 I'll spend some time with it and see what I think of that in more of a smartphone like environment so the other things inside the box are you know nice long USB - a - mini B cable for charging as well as a pair of headphones although I'm not entire convinced that anyone actually uses the headphone / headsets that are included with phones these days but there you go it's got a single button so you can take your calls as well as a clip so you can clip it to things and then what appear to be probably the most uncomfortable at your buds ever anyway that's not what you paid good money for you paid good money for the z10 phone so on the top of the phone you're gonna find your lock button as well as your headphone and microphone port so it's a three and a half millimeter jack i've actually powered up the phone just now the said 10 has one of the brightest screens available on the market with some guys measuring it as high as 700 CD per M squared which is pretty much meant to be usable in direct sunlight the disadvantage to there the way that they've implemented their screen brightness functionality is that you actually cannot turn off auto brightness now this is one of the things that bothered me immediately about Windows Phone 8 where some of the decisions were being made for me for example in Windows Phone 8 it is impossible to auto to lock the auto-rotate you can't do it it auto rotates no matter what and I'm looking at this going really and then in iOS at least when I'm back when I was using it maybe they've changed this now you were only able to lock phones in portrait you couldn't lock them in landscape and why are you making these decisions for me why don't you let me make the decision whether I want to trade-off battery life or whether I want to trade off the screen brightness so so there you go that's something that sort of doesn't appeal to me about it right off the bat but you know since I'm not the one doing the I switched I won't be the one to have any complaints about it I suppose on the side we find micro HDMI as well as a USB port for charging and then on the bottom we've got what looks like yes the price pot to pick take off the back plate so we'll we'll cover that in just a moment and then on the other side we've got the volume rocker so on the back of the unit there's sort of a chromed finished thing here I'm sure if you're watching this video you've probably seen a blackberry z10 at this point but there's the 8 megapixel rear camera as well as the flash and then on the front there's a 2 megapixel camera that is right about there now I've had people complain I look at my screen I've had people complain about the finish at the back of the phone saying that it feels that it feels cheap but I don't get that impression at all I mean let's be really clear this is not the HTC one this is not like a beautiful one of the most beautifully anodized finished phones I've ever encountered but it's also not where did that thing go it's also not a galaxy s4 where it's like a glossy scratch Abul piece of plastic on the back that actually feels quite flimsy even compared to the z10 so let's go ahead and top the backing off of this one you can see it's just like it could be a butterfly if butterflies were made of plastic and stuck to the back of phones whereas the one on this at 10 which I've already actually know what that's really not any better is it okay well there you go I like the texture then let me just put it that way I find it easier to not drop but the advantage of any of these phones that have replaceable backs whether it's the s4 s3 or whether it's the z10 is that you can replace that back cover with something else if you don't like the stock one so speaking of replacing things if you don't like them there's a removable battery just like Samsung's phones and then you've also got your SIM slot right there so they make you remove the battery in order to swap that oh that's kind of a smart design and a micro SD card reader and if there's anything I've missed about the HTC One in spite of the fact that I went from iOS where Apple doesn't has never believed in expandable storage to Android going from a 16 gig phone to a 32 gig phone I found on a modern phone when you're shooting a lot of 1080p video with how great the video capture capabilities of these new phones are you're going to use up the space really fast if you're a content creator at all so spec wise you guys probably know this already it's 1280 by 768 so you are fully capable of watching HD videos but not full HD that gives up 335 pixels per inch which back when it was released was quite competitive but these days with phones like the HTC One and the and the galaxy s4 on the market is a little bit different it's got bluetooth for NFC dual band Wi-Fi 4G LTE a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon s4 plus which isn't as fast as what you might find in something like the Droid DNA from a TC or the newer s700 processors in the HTC One and the Galaxy s4 but it's still plenty fast for most of the things that you're going to be doing whether it's browsing or whatever else it's got two gigs of RAM and this is the kind of one of the coolest things I think that I've ever encountered on anything anywhere ever so I haven't actually used the phone yet I've not quite touched the screen yet but check this out so the way that they've implemented the keyboard which is a very clean layout by the way to see seen reports that there's no delay no leg and that seems to be true for the most part this is something that started to drive me crazy about the iPhone 4 near the end of its usable lifespan for me but oh it's a bit of a lag there yeah you can see that anyway is when there's when there's a delay on the keyboard it just drives me nuts but under the screen there's actually heat sensors so if you consistently miss type and miss hit the z10 will actually learn where you usually hit when you're aiming for a particular key over time and make life easier for you so hopefully slick we'll talk about that during his impressions of the phone and yeah that should be just like absolutely awesome so let's show some of the basic gestures so let's go back to see it's funny because I still don't know how to use it at all so I think it's from one side blackberry hub so that takes you to the hub you can add accounts hub is cool because it allows you to bring all of your messaging together whether it's Facebook SMS or whatever else and then besides just showing you everything at the same time you can also filter out the things that you don't want to see let's just go ahead and lock the phone so that I can so I can start from scratch here alright so let's do a tour of the gestures that are the main gesture so we are unlocking the phone up here actually here's something even when you're in sleep you can unlock the phone by nope yeah there we go very cool so you don't actually have to press the hard unlock button you can have it just locked and going up from the bottom unlocks it or you can see the lock screen which will give you a preview of any notifications that you have as well as allow you to access your camera without actually unlocking phone entirely so then we do the same thing in order to do that so multitasking is accessed by scrolling up from the bottom and from there you can actually see some of the things that I have open including search settings calendar now this is a funny one the browser is open but you can see it's sideways this is a bit of a weird thing where if you leave an app sideways and get this okay so you scroll up from the bottom now and it opens up multi - it's in portrait really so you have to take your phone and go like this and then it leaves that app actually in in landscape mode so there's there's some funny things but you know what for those of you watching the video this is an unboxing I am NOT a blackberry 10 expert by any stretch of the imagination but these are things that are already a little bit unintuitive for someone who's coming from a few other major smartphone platforms that I'm pretty familiar with now so anyway so there's that from the lock screen down swipe puts it in bedside mode which I personally think is really cool I it basically just turns your phone into a clock and then gives you easy access to alarms it's these kinds of productivity focused things see there's a little clock you continue notifications on or off there you go well whatever they were off before now they're apparently I don't know somewhere and then you can turn your alarm on and off just by doing this which i think is really neat and you get rid of that just by scrolling up and getting rid of it the other thing too is when the phone's not unlocked again these are very product right multitasking then we can that see there as an Android user and an iOS user that's unintuitive to me on both of the previous major platforms that I've used scrolling down from the top lets me access my quick settings and my notifications regardless so there you go we have to be in the multitasking menu so rotation lock Wi-Fi notifications alarms Bluetooth from settings are all accessible from within here now moving over to your I guess whatever it's called app drawer right is just scrolling to the right so you can see all your apps that launch they had 70,000 apps I don't know how many they have now but at least they have sort of the critical ones things like Facebook and Twitter which we're missing first party apps when Windows Phone 8 launched at least I think one other two of them were same thing with YouTube where Windows Phone 8 was missing a native well ok there was a native app written by someone in collaboration with Microsoft but it wasn't a Google app and that was that was really that was really missing then um okay swiping oh yeah so from within any app so let's go back to here so no matter where we are we can go into our multitasking here this is a vastly inferior thing compared to the Android experience that I've been having so when you go to here I can see I don't need such a large preview of the browser thing that I had open or whatever else I prefer this approach where I have nine things and I understand that the larger 4.7 inch 1080p screen versus a 4.3 inch 720p screen enables that but it's considering that they're in the same sort of price bracket I would consider that a much superior way of doing multitasking but once you're in here you can preview your messages just by holding and then if you gesture from left to right off the screen you can access the BlackBerry hub which as you can see I did a quick test between me myself and I of the text messaging and then I can also see my text messages my blackberry messenger and a hub which sort of once you add the accounts puts everything in there phone dialing so BlackBerry hasn't forgotten that this is a phone so the first thing that you're gonna see every time you scroll up from our swipe up from the bottom is going to be phone searching camera these are sort of the most critical these are the things I use most often on my phone with the exception of search I really don't use that that much I usually just open a browser but phone is great to have there you can't dial by number unfortunately so if I put in lioness that's not gonna work this is a great feature on Android I use it all the time I almost never look at my contact list any more because I can just dial people by name outstanding every platform should have it and that is a very very unfortunate thing but apparently searching contacts is quick according to some of the sort of anecdotal evidence that I've read about but honestly I don't see this being any quicker than what I already had on iOS which is not as fast as just dialing it in the new blackberry messenger includes video calls and screen sharing as long as you have enough data for it and of course the feature that makes blackberry blackberry is the security so blackberry balance unlike Samsung's Knox which is their bring-your-own-device work initiative for having a an employer accessible sort of corporate section of the phone when you bring your own device and then your own personal one and they can't talk to each other blackberry balance has been around for years and is very very well regarded in that in that respect so I think that's pretty much it that covers what you guys probably need to know about the Zed ten that isn't gonna be covered by slick when he goes cold turkey on Android with his s3 I'm taking your s3 that's yeah no s3 for you you're going you're going z10 you know you're going z10 and thank you for watching this video don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos