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so which is better the BlackBerry z10 or the iPhone 5 hey guys it's four and a minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to compare both of these phones let's get to it these devices look entirely different the BlackBerry z10 is made for business while the iPhone 5 is more dainty and good-looking and also fragile we found in our durability report that the iPhone 5 is especially susceptible long-term we're talking three or four months to scratches dings dents bruises and all that kind of stuff if you're not using a case especially this chamfered edge which is what really makes people fall in love with the iPhone 5 I think but it is so susceptible to getting beat up very very badly now the z10 is a totally different device it's made for productivity for for for life and so it's made out of entirely plastic whereas the iPhone 5 is glass and metal and it feels totally different in hand it feels more solid it feels like something that's not going to slip out of your hand and if it does slip out of your hand you're not going to cry about it because this device is more resilient so on the back here we've got a soft touch plastic with a nice dimpled texture which just makes it feel awesome and hand you know some people say that the z10 looks like the iPhone 5 well what they really mean to say so the z10 looks like the back of the iPhone 5 and it's not that big of resemblance we have these strips on the top and the bottom but the differences really stop there overall the z10 is nondescript it really isn't a looker but that's okay I think it's meant for business it's meant to take away the distraction of chamfered edges and metal textures and all that stuff and just give you a functional device that feels good in the hand over here on the side we've got micro USB and the ability to do and output to an HDMI capable television or projector got a volume rocker and BlackBerry's quick actions button and here at the top is the power standby button one of the interesting things that you can do on the z10 that you can't do on the iPhone 5 is unlock the display by swiping up from the bottom now both of these are turned off right now so it's not going to work but I'm going to show you that in a sec of course on the iPhone 5 we've got everything in its iPhone e place on the back we've got 8 megapixel cameras on both capable of doing 1080p video we can say without question that video and photos look much much better taken with the iPhone 5 you can check out our full z10 review for camera samples if you want both have an LED flash there in terms of thickness the z10 is definitely thicker taller and wider overall the iPhone 5 is more slender in hand and it feels smaller and more lightweight but again the z10 feels like it's ready for a day of action now before we talk about specs and boot up a little bit on availability the BlackBerry z10 will be available on all four carriers very soon we're filming this in March and around March or April it should be available the iPhone 5 of course is available on all carriers carriers except for t-mobile so let's start these up and see which gets on first one two three Geronimo okay and some life has occurred here and let's see which of these devices turns on more quickly now in terms of specs they're kind of similarly SPECT in a way as mentioned their cameras are the same they've both got and they both have a dual-core CPU the BlackBerry z10 has 2 gigs of RAM the iPhone only has 1 gigabyte of RAM on boots onboard storage that's a funny thing to say is 16 gigabytes on the z10 and your choice of 16 32 or 64 gigabytes on the iPhone 5 but the z10 gives you microSD expansion it also allows you to swap the battery ok the iPhone 5 was first the z10 is going to be second and let's just show that built for business of course so you can swap out your battery if you're doing a cross-country flight you're watching video you take out the battery put in a new one and we've got a slot for a micro SIM card so you can expand the memory on the z10 okay so we've Jack brightness up to 100% on both devices to turn off all the brightness and what you can tell right away is that the screen on the z10 is warmer some people like warmer screens some people don't it's really up to you now these are very different screens but they're similarly sized we've got a 4-inch 11 36 by 640 display here on the iPhone 5 that's 326 PPI the z10 beats the iPhone 5 in terms of PPI if that's something that you're looking at with a 1280 by 768 resolution 4.2 inch screen makes for a PPI of 350 five can you tell the difference between the two in terms of PPI not really they're both extremely crisp and they look really really good now software couldn't be more different on both of these devices the z10 has the new BlackBerry 10 operating system which actually takes some cues from the iPhones operating system let me show you what I mean by that so if we swipe to the right this is the main home screen if we swipe to the right these are where your icons live and you can make folders and stuff on the iPhone of course back in I don't know 2007 they introduced this idea of tap and hold and the little jiggle right watch this tap and hold and pulsate okay not a jiggle but it's a pulsate this is definitely inspired by the iPhone 5 and like you can do on really all platforms you can tap and hold an icon drag it on top of another and you can create a folder and when you're done you just tap you just tap but folders are kind of weird on the z10 they are fullscreen they're up in your face whereas on the iPhone 5 they kind of just fold down which is a nice touch okay now let's compare web browsing always very important here and open up Safari now to get to the web browser on the z10 we swipe over to the app pane here I've got browser up here at the top so I'm going to click Safari here and browser at the same time one two three boom and got there faster on the iPhone 5 now here on the z10 what you have is sort of this quick dial interface which is always nice to see let's go to pocketnow.com on both and see what's up we've got the address bar on the bottom here and here's something interesting the keyboards are very different between these two devices it looks so nice on the z10 it kind of looks like a real Hardware QWERTY keyboard with these metal strips in between bit of pocket now calm here okay and they're both going not exactly the same time but we'll do an official speed test in a sec moving around the page both of these I can tell you have very very good web browsers but which is faster let's say desktop version one two three go and we're waiting for the progress bar here and the iPhone 5 finish first and we'll wait for the z10 to finish loading final images and let's scroll down the page we don't want to see any white space if we flick quickly and we don't i phone 5 has a slower way of scrolling let's pinch to zoom see which clears up text faster iPhone 5 a little bit faster the the z10 is having some problem with Typekit fonts a lot of websites these days including pocket now use custom fonts with Adobe Typekit and it's not converting it Windows Phone 7.5 and 7 have the same problem in Internet Explorer not that big of a deal but it makes some websites like the verge and Engadget and pocket now look a little bit weird so let's click on a link and see what it's like to load up this pocket now daily video that's fascinating okay so we've got a video here ready to go and a video here at a go let's see which loads up the video first 1 2 3 go did that work running for the Samsung Galaxy and there we go 2 videos playing video is slightly larger here on the z10 of course because it's a larger screen they both look very good on the z10 it's definitely a little bit warmer so Jaime looks more tan than he usually does Hey look at that that's funny but both playback video very very smoothly let's get out of here now if someone were to ask what's good about BlackBerry 10 I would say messaging and this is why the BlackBerry is really good at messaging something that the iPhone does not do from any screen by the way the videos still playing you swipe up from the bottom if you do it the right way you swipe up from the bottom and you begin to see your notifications in the BlackBerry hub if you swipe up a little more into the right you can start to peek into your into your BlackBerry hub which is where all of your Twitter and Facebook status and updates come through and all of your emails fall into one place and it's a really awesome way to really see everything that's going on in your life and of course if you go over here to the hub or to the listing before the hub you can drill into specific areas but from any screen whether you're on Facebook or Twitter the New York Times and you just want to see if you have some messages and what they're what they're looking like you just do a little swipe and then you can swipe back and go back to the home screen through that multitask UI but besides that that's really it and in terms of what makes BlackBerry 10 awesome right now it's sparse in terms of the app selection and we are trying to answer the question why the z10 because of course the iPhone 5 has a app selection that is really second to none it's still slightly better than what you get on Android phones today so the z10 is a great phone if you want some rugged Hardware a great typing experience the best email experience on any device great security features and a device to just get stuff done but that's not exactly true because in order to get stuff done you need apps for everything all of your stuff and the z10 just does not have it and right now we cannot recommend the z10 so if you're comparing against the iPhone 5 the iPhone 5 is a mature product that can just do so much more the z10 has promised make no mistake about it but right now it's unfulfilled so which do you think is better which device would you rather carry as your daily driver the email friendly messaging friendly z10 or the more refined more mature iPhone 5 let us know in the comments and thanks for watching that's it for now