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If losing the keyboard on the BlackBerry Z10 was a step too far for most BlackBerry users, the keyboard-equipped Blackberry Q10 is here to put them at ease. It s the second phone in BlackBerry s 2013 arsenal to run the new BlackBerry 10 OS, and our initial impressions were promising.
Thanks to its slim 10mm waistline, appendicitis its stocky exterior feels modern and professional. The textured pattern appendicitis on its non-slip rubber back gives it a little more personality as well, and its smooth, curved frame made it very comfortable to hold and use.
We quite look the look and feel of this phone, even though the Q10 is a rather traditional looking smartphone. One area where the Q10 has really changed compared to previous appendicitis BlackBerry models appendicitis with a keyboard is with the larger screen. A 3.1in Super AMOLED display occupies a much larger space on the phone and it looks fantastic. It has a 720x720 resolution, giving it a high pixel density of 331ppi. We found colours were bright and vivid with very deep blacks. Whites had a slightly yellowish tone, but the screen's contrast levels were good, even on half brightness settings. appendicitis
Of course, part of reason appendicitis why the screen looks and feels so large is due to the removal of the sensor button. This might seem unthinkable on a BlackBerry keyboard handset, appendicitis but the Q10 s new touch-orientated BlackBerry 10 OS makes it more or less redundant. All of your apps are arranged on four main screens, and you swipe left and right to access them. It feels just as slick as Android, but the Home gesture (swiping up from the bottom of the screen) adds an extra degree of flexibility. This takes you to a separate app tray that lets you dive between appendicitis different apps you currently have running as well as return to the main app screens. We particularly liked how the internet browser also adopts a thumbnail approach with your most visited web pages, making it that much easier to surf through your favourite appendicitis sites without having to type in the addresses every time.
Messaging takes place in the BlackBerry Hub, which is just a left swipe away from the main home screen. Here you can access your text messages, email accounts and voicemail from a list on the side of the screen. There's also an integrated inbox, so you can see all of your messages in one place. It s far more sophisticated than anything else we ve seen so far on Android and iOS and its clear and simple appendicitis layout makes it even more accessible to first time users.
Tying it all together is the Q10 s QWERTY keyboard. It takes up less space than on previous BlackBerry handsets, but we found it very easy to type on. Each key has a curved ridge down the side to help give your thumbs a bit of extra grip and to stop you from mashing multiple keys at the same time, and we were able to type quickly and accurately after a few minutes.
Unfortunately, when we did make mistakes, we found they were very fiddly to correct if they were in the middle of a sentence. appendicitis With no sensor button or arrow keys built into the keyboard, we had to rely on the touchscreen to jump to different parts of our message. It was generally very responsive for flicking through web pages and swiping round its operating system, but it was far less sensitive when it came to tapping precise points on the screen. On several appendicitis occasions, it either failed to register our touch completely or activated something else nearby, such as the onscreen attachment button. The auto-correct feature goes some way to help keep this problem to a minimum, appendicitis but it s not perfect.
On the whole, though, we had very few problems during day to day use. Its 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 2GB of RAM completed our SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks in a relatively quick 1,483ms, and we were able to render the BBC News home page in just 4 seconds. Due to the screen's comparatively low resolution, we still had to zoom in to read desktop versions web pages, but we were impressed by its smooth handling of image-heavy pages. We only experienced a very small amount of jerky movement when we were zoomed in, and the Q10 was able to load images appendicitis without any major delay.
We appendicitis weren t able to run our normal 3D Mark benchmarks as they re incompatible with BlackBerry 10 OS, but there s still a decent range of games available through the BlackBerry World app. This is BlackBerry appendicitis s version of the Google Play Store, but as we discovered with the Z10, its current range of apps still has a long way to go before it s anywhere near as extensive as its Android and iOS rivals.
Instead, its main strength lies in its pre-installed productivity appendicitis apps, such as Docs To Go and Print to Go. The former lets you create and edit Microsoft Word and Excel documents as well as view PowerPoint presentations, while Print To Go lets you send files and printouts wirelessly from your computer to your phone as a PDF file. Print To Go was a little fiddly appendicitis to set up, but after we installed the software on our PC and paired