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what's up everyone John renter from TechnoBuffalo you're back with another smartphone smackdown this episode we've got the king of Android the galaxy s3 squared up against the newcomer at the BlackBerry z10 we're gonna talk about operating system build quad and go over what I like and don't like about those phones at all it's really clear winner let's get fight all right so on the left if you couldn't do it by the giant logo we've got the BlackBerry z10 the perky upstart challenger on the right we've got the stone worth the king the phone you know this is the Samsung Galaxy s3 so this smartphone Smackdown is going to be a little bit different in the olden days we could you compare speeds we could open up the browser at the same time see which apps open quicker that doesn't work anymore all these phones are fast and all these phones open applications relatively quickly the one tenth of a second or 10 millisecond different really doesn't matter so we're gonna break this review down in a way we've never done before I'm gonna talk about what I like best about each phones if I mentioned build quality for example on the BlackBerry z10 that means I like it better on the z10 than I do on the Galaxy s3 so let me go and jump in and get started and then give you a few disclaimers before I do first the BlackBerry z10 just came out a few weeks ago whereas the s3 was released back in May we're looking at a u.s. SPECT galaxy s3 this is for AT&T s Network are looking at an unlocked BlackBerry z10 that they gave out at BlackBerry's conference just a few weeks ago and it does have support for 18 T's LTE network and in the past I've tried to avoid talking about the operating system as a whole and really focus on the phones but it's impossible to get away from with this review the BlackBerry operating system in BB 10 was made for this phones first time we've really seen it mass-produced and available for public consumption so we're gonna talk a lot about the operating system and things that I like best about each so it's not gonna be physically all about the galaxy s3 as a whole but the software that runs on it as well so let's go ahead and get started and start with the new guy on the block the Challenger the BlackBerry z10 I just mentioned built quality let's go ahead and start there I really actually like the build quality on the z10 both the z10 and the s3 have plastic removable backs but the body on the z10 just feels better whether it's not the texture back or how flush it sits with the battery you don't feel like it's got a removable plastic back it almost feels like a unibody device the bezel feels thicker feels better built and it just feels more substantial in the hand so another thing I really like about the z10 and I think BlackBerry totally nailed this one is multitasking I love the way they handled it here when you open an application you get the little preview window and it's not just a default preview window a lot of apps will actually show you relevant information about that app sort of like Windows Live Tiles well I do wish you could close it like you can on the PlayBook by just wiping off the screen hitting a little X in the corner is not a big deal but I really like the way they handled multitasking here it's very very elegant and the multitasking window is your home screen I think black braid just did a great job with that one of the other things of BlackBerry's of course known for is email and I think they hit this one out of the park not surprisingly I really like the unified inbox approach email came through so fast it came through faster actually on the blackberry and did even on my desktop computer but you're talking about email on the galaxy s3 or Android device Samsung's email client I think is awful and has a long way to go to improve know obviously the Android caveats are here you can download third-party apps to improve I usually use k9 for my Android email you can use secondary apps obviously like Gmail but lack of unified inbox kind of makes that annoyance for me personally I know you can do tweaks with the routing to make emails come through a little bit quicker but so the out-of-the-box experience black break this one right out of the park so one of the highlights of bb10 are gestures and how gestures work blackberry peak it seems kind of gimmicky but I found myself using it more and more and more at sea my notification like blink read I wanted off I had an email who was from if it had a reply right away and just by peeking in and I swiping up and moving my finger over to the right a little bit I could just get a quick look at my inbox even just swiping straight up and holding my finger on the screen I could see that little red asterisks to know if I had an email a text message or whatever else it might be it was really handy and something that I found myself using quite a bit speaking of using quite a bit you're gonna want hit a home button quite a bit on the blackberry for coming from an iPhone Windows Phone or Android device but there is not a home button to be found the home Mac is to swipe straight up now first that was one of the more annoying things about the phone but the more I used it sort of days and days and weeks on I got really used to about myself liking it and as I switch back to Android or tried iOS again I kept trying to swipe up on the screen surprisingly that was something that I really enjoyed about the black brazii 10 I wish other os's would actually use it if you've never tried it definitely something you it's gonna take a while to get used to but it does become second nature very quick so when blackberry announced the z10 and BlackBerry 10 in particular they were really touting the keyboard awesomeness and they also hit a home run with this guy the keyboard is probably the best on-screen keyboard I have ever used the frets are in a great place I love how it starts to fill in words for age of typing you could just swipe them right up on the screen it became second nature and it learns as you go and I love what BlackBerry did by putting a touch sensor underneath the screen so if you've got fat fingers you accidentally hit the opiate tip the P key it'll sense that actually will move those contact points over they really did a cool job and of course everything I'm talking about if you want more detail on it definitely check out our blackberry z10 review or a galaxy s4 you do which is gonna run through all these features in depth but the keyboard they absolutely nailed if you're a blackberry purist and you're coming from a bold or an older curve and you don't want to give up that physical keyboard you can wait for the q10 to come out for a few months in May issue or you can take the plunge and try to keep around the z10 I really don't think you're gonna be disappointed and using the z10 week after week it never felt slow to me it always felt fast never felt bogged down the dual-core processor and 2 gigs of RAM were awesome I think that's due to the vertical integration model what that means is BlackBerry makes the software and BlackBerry makes the hardware so this phone was made just for this operating system they didn't have to deal with really anything else that went into it now they certainly outsource the processor and there are components in there but the phone was built for this operating system in particular which is really an incredible model Oh executed properly and it worked beautifully I didn't feel any sort of lag at all I used in his detent it felt quick it felt as if II and it really just worked well never at any point no matter how many applications I had open did I feel like the phone was slow or to catch up with what I was doing so when it comes to speed and this was surprising to me to the BlackBerry z10 definitely took that and the last edge that I'm going to give to the z10 is the screen itself it's a 4.2 inch green with the resolution of 768 by 1280 with a 355 PPI the screen itself was actually beautiful which I was pleasantly surprised about because Samsung is really known for putting out awesome screens pictures look great videos popped text was crisp and clear and this is a huge comp into blackberry because Samsung has some of the best screens on the market but I think they absolutely nailed it and it's great to see a high def screen finally on blackberry all right so we talked about all the awesomeness that is in the BlackBerry z10 what about the awesomeness that's in the galaxy s3 this phone currently sits is the king of Android and has for the past few months and it's got that position for a reason there's a lot of stuff to love so let's go ahead and first start with apps the Google Play Store has a ton of applications and I found myself when I was using the z10 wishing that I could finally go back and use Instagram and some of the other apps that black brace that is coming but just aren't here yet things like Instagram whatsapp etc I just wish they could have I knew when I was using an Android device particularly the galaxy s3 that any app I wanted there would be an Android version and that just because the OS has been around for years and Blackberry does not have that luxury well they claim to have 70,000 apps not many of them are overly useful so apps something the galaxy s3 absolutely has over the z10 next is browser one of the things I use absolutely the most on the phone the browser on the galaxy s3 and really Android in general is pretty incredible I'm talking about the built in browser not even Google Chrome which I know a lot of you guys use in Chrome would have been the same thing here incredible browser was smooth it was quick everything just worked very well and of course mobile websites are optimized to work with Android devices and I'm certain they're based on the same base of technology it's a WebKit so things work pretty well on the z10 but everything worked perfectly on the galaxy s3 and you'll find that's true of course of almost any Android device so the z10 has a speech-to-text functionality built in and it works as you talk it'll type but nothing holds a candle to what Google has on Android devices I think the Galaxy S series with a perfect examples of that speech-to-text just works great and quick as you talk and get punctuation it shows up almost instantaneously and it just worked in the day that's really what you want from your phone you want it just to work you don't have to think about all the things your phone is doing to make the processes go you just want the phone to do what you need and when it comes to speech to text it absolutely nails it and of course Google now I love Google now for knowing how long to take me to get home sports scores stocks Google now is incredible add-on comes with jellybean built in and of course the galaxy s3 features that it just works very well and again that's the theme here things just work on Android used to be the hallmark of iOS but Android has really come up very quickly one of the other great things about Android particular is customization on the z10 you can't do that much you can change the background you can make folders but that's really it you don't have options to put widgets and changed away icons look and change fonts really to the depth that you can on the galaxy s3 or Android it just worked much better and that's again that's the moral here things you just worked better on the galaxy s3 so the next thing that I think that the galaxy s3 has got over the z10 something I never thought I'd say actually TouchWiz itself has a really lot of nice additions here that's come along very well over the years and I'm not the biggest fan of the cartoonish look in the big bright icons and that kind of things but TouchWiz does have a lot of nice functionality you've got things like all the s functionality here as well you've got S Memo as suggests and of course s voice and all the tweaks that go into it as well anything from how the home screens perform to the widgets TouchWiz has come along very well and isn't as heavy as it once was so I give Sam some credit certainly that edge goes to the galaxy s3 so I mentioned in the z10 what things I liked was the gestures but what I missed was physical home buttons for back and menu I found myself searching for where the menu option was on the z10 while I preferred the home button swipe gesture on the blackberry I did miss the back and many buttons and the physical buttons found on the galaxy s3 or the capacitor buttons that are here so I talked about how much I liked the screen itself on the BlackBerry z10 but I preferred the screen size on the galaxy s3 if Sir mix-a-lot taught me anything it's bigger is better and I really like the bigger 4.8 inch screen on the Galaxy s3 when it comes to the screen itself that edge still goes to the z10 but the size I like my phone's big and I prefer the larger screen size of the galaxy s3 so which one would I pick if I had to choose one of these phones if I have to choose one of these phones for you the winner would be the galaxy s3 for a few simple reasons first and probably most importantly I know Samsung is gonna be around for the next two years or the duration of my contractors three years if you're in Canada you can't say the same for blackberry they've got a great operating system they've got what now looks to be a brighter future but there's no guaranteeing what that's gonna mean for you is future support Samsung hasn't been known to push out a ton of OS updates for their phones are kind of slow but they do come and Samsung's gonna continue to support if you're gonna be customer service warranties will be honored and I think that that would be one of the main reasons I would choose a Galaxy s3 over a blackberry is d-10 now BlackBerry's done an incredible job at the z10 it's probably the best first generation operating system that's ever come out but as I mentioned in the review if you want to catch the competition and you're losing in a race which blackberry certainly is right now you can't just run as fast you have to run faster and I don't think blackberry is running any faster I like the scalability of Android I like everything about the galaxy s3 and this phone is the winner for a reason insta-kill of Android for several months while so many competitors have come out for a reason it's a great phone on a great platform it's available on pretty much any carrier you can pick this up almost anywhere you go in any country there's always going to be support for it so the winner of the smartphone smackdown is the galaxy s3 and I know a lot of this scenes like Android versus BlackBerry 10 but it's the only way to approach something like this with such a new operating system in the z10 so hope you guys enjoy it if you liked the video you liked this style of smartphone smackdown give this a thumbs up it really helps us out I check us out at TechnoBuffalo come for latest and greatest tech news I will see you guys in the next video you