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what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here it's been about a month since we reviewed the BlackBerry z10 I've had much more time to play with it get a chance to know the phone even better than I did after the few weeks before we did our review so I want to share my thoughts and opinions as you decide whether or not the BlackBerry z10 should be right for you on the dawn of its debut on the US carriers let's go ahead and get started all right so here is of course a blackberry z10 and as a refresher it is the first phone the BlackBerry has released running a new operating system and that is BlackBerry 10 and that's still a lot of the story here so I talked about the review there are a lot of things I like about the phone a few things I didn't like and for the most part those still hold true I really do like the screen still a 4.2 inch screen is beautiful resolution webpages load great text looks beautiful a surprisingly nice screen what I didn't notice when I did the first review was viewing angle on the side is not as sharp as been on other phones and viewing in direct sunlight is absolutely abysmal you can see the glare here so if you are outside you're gonna have to try and really adjust the brightness find a level it's going to work to see what's on in the screen so I still really like the gestures it took me about four days is to get used to the home button that's essentially that swipe up and I really got used to it I'm really expecting most phone manufacturers to ditch physical home buttons it Altima LIGO the sort of gesture route but I think blackberry here absolutely nailed it blackberry peak is still one of my favorite features as you go ahead and take your finger and scroll up you can see notifications for what you've got and if you pull your finger over to the left you can see all of your information in your BlackBerry hub which we'll talk about in just a minute that's still one of the best things about the device continuing the user interface become more intuitive as I've used it I've learned where things are a little better had some muscle memory I used to keep always sort of scrolling and looking for different settings now I can remember I can pull this down and I can go and access the settings right from there I like keep thinking notification should show up there perhaps from all my time I've spent with Android built quality here is still been very outstanding I like the way the phone feels it is plastic but a few extremely solid the back which is removable sits flush with the batteries I don't have any sort of gap that could make a plastic phone feel of less quality this volume control button sir in the middle which does some muting has been really hard to push a minor coil but one to notice the volume controls I really like the placement of them the power and lock button in the middle of the phone has been a bit of an annoyance I keep maybe it's personal thing from having tested so many phones but I'm used to it either being here or up top on the right-hand side the middle takes a lot of getting used to again small complaint but something to bear in mind when the biggest issues I had with the phone was the lack of applications that's still the case now a month later mostly apps I use are here but some of the ones that I really rely on including Instagram are not actually lack of Instagram is why I switched away from using the z10 other applications will be coming for example whatsapp which you see right there was not purchased from or downloaded from blackberry stores side-loaded via the Android installer so something to keep in mind it's stored or works not a hundred percent so apps like that should be coming hopefully sometime soon I mentioned in my review the calendar that sometimes we crashed I tried to add a new item and that still is true about fifty percent of time when I try and add a new item here it'll work the other 50 percent of the time it's going to crash I got to reopen it back up again the browser here is still as impressive as it was when I first tested things load really quickly the HTML tests on it show it's actually one of the faster browsers out there and I've had no issues with it at all and that's a big compliment what Blackbird is done because the previous browsers were absolutely visible most using this I really noticed no difference between browse the internet on iOS or Android it's just that good we'll go ahead and go home I love the multitasking I love these panes that sort of show new things so I had the calendar application open you'll see that it's created almost a live tile and telling me it 45 minutes I've got a revision three status update call if you want to close those I still wish you could swipe them off the screen if you got hit that little tiny X which can be sometimes hard to hit I thought the keyboard is awesome at first of the review I am now absolutely in love with the keyboard is outstanding from the placement of the frets to the learning what you want to type to be able to swipe words right up on the screen is solutely incredible this is hands down the best on-screen keyboard I have ever used and it gets more enjoyable as you use it there's a heat sensor below the screen actually will sense your contact point so if you always type I would mean to type you it will learn where you're going and it will adjust it accordingly and it works really well and it learns very fast so from a keyboard standpoint I did expect for pretty much all BlackBerry's they hit this sucker out of the park overall I've really still been enjoying using the phone a lack of applications is still my biggest complaint a battery life that started off outstanding during this review has degraded a little bit when I comes time to end of the day now I'm generally below that 20% mark so that's where it gets to be a little bit nervous time but I definitely use the phone more than most so if you're not a heavy user something you're going to want to keep in mind email here still absolutely outstanding it comes through almost immediately quicker on my blackberry than it ever was on a desktop application so pretty cool for there as well I'll go ahead and go home I still really like the BlackBerry hub as well you can browse through all of your inboxes they're opening up that API to other third-party applications it just works well it's a great way to see a unified inbox so that has still been very impressive to use and I said it was the best first generation operating system that I've ever used and that's a huge compliment this is a polished OS this is a modern OS this is an OS that is scalable and has a tremendous amount of potential it's still suffering though from sort of new operating system woes and that's developer support and I think the success and ultimate success of blackberry and BlackBerry 10 is gonna be the hands of developers and I still think that blackberry world can get up and running and get the applications that the other operating systems have the future is gonna be very bright for blackberry this is a great phone that works very well however I still have a hard time recommending it I just don't know if I trust blackberry to be around in two years continue to supporting the phone I would wait probably about four months to see what blackberry comes out what they said they won't release up to twelve new devices here throughout the course 2013 so see what comes I check out the q10 see how the company is doing I would be very wary to pick up a device that I didn't know was and be supported over the duration of a contract now that being said if you want to pick one of these up unlocked and use it for over long you want to use it this is going to be a great phone to try out there are plenty of places to buy them the prices are dropping on it it's a really enjoyable phone but it's hard to recommend it over iOS or Android it's not better than either of those I would say it's close to on par but loses points again from that app support something to keep in mind I'll take you guys thoughts on blackberry 10 if you picked one up if you've used a z10 Oh without you agree or disagree what your favorite features are I love to hear your thoughts thank you guys for watching give this video a thumbs up if you like we really appreciate it check us out at TechnoBuffalo com I'm John Rettendon I'll see you next video you