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The Blackberry Q10 - Opinions Please
Just been reading some quite positive reviews about Blackberrys new flagship phone The Q10 priced at a wallet breaking £579.99 Sim Free - What attracts me to this phone is the very good battery life, on a down side I think the lack of Apps wil put a lot of People of - What are your thoughts on this phone
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Just been reading some quite positive reviews about Blackberrys new flagship phone The Q10 priced at a wallet breaking £579.99 Sim Free - What attracts me to this phone is the very good battery life, on a down side I think the lack of Apps wil put a lot of People of - What are your thoughts on this phone
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Isn't the Z10 the flagship and the Q10 is the alternative for blackberry fans
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the Q10 is most def the flagship. I can imagine there have been a lot of people holding out for this particular handset. As we all know Blackberry has always been about the keyboard and the typing experience goes unmatched. Whether it sells by the bucket load remains to be seen as the price for the handset is a bit of a joke.
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This must has just come under the radar as a possible upgrade.
I like the fact that it has a touchscreen & a 'QWERTY' keyboard. I also like that fact that it isn't the same size as small car, like a few of the high end smartphones of today. |
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Try and do those BB10 gestures on that small screen. You will struggle. If BlackBerry insist on a physical keyboard then the ideal form factor is a portrait slider - maximise the screen size and give a physical keyboard.
OP - it would be difficult for me to imagine a worse phone than the Q10, even a iPhone has more appeal to me. But hey, I am not you - you know what you need/like. |
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What attracts me to this phone is the very good battery life...
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the Q10 is most def the flagship....
It's a distinct drop in spec vs the Z10, so it's definitely not the flagship. |
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The Q10 got a very positive review from The Register today, which came as quite a surprise as they seem to have spent the last year or so predicting the demise of BB and doom mongering at every opportunity.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05...ry_q10_review/ There have been a raft of positive reviews for the Q10 already, and it looks like a good choice if you need a serious communication device. |
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My contract was just up and I have upgraded to the Q10 because I like a keyboard and I don't really like touchscreens.
My last BB [ a Bold ] had a keyboard and a touchscreen like this one. I've only had the phone a day so I am just setting it all up and haven't got strong opinions yet but my initial thoughts are....... The keyboard on the Q10 is way better than any other BB I have had. It just feels better under the fingers and is a wee bit wider so you don't tend to slip your fingers onto the wrong letter and have to delete and retype [like I often do on a touchscreen keypad] They have removed the trackpad/ball and the keys that were alongside it, so you have no back arrow or blackberry icon or phone icon to press like you are used to. TBH I can see they have removed that row of keys so they can use the space it took up as extra screen, but I would have preferred that row of keys to remain and the actual handset be a bit longer for extra screen. Also this phone has a micro SIM card so you will need to buy a SIM card adaptor to use this SIM in a spare phone that uses a normal sized SIM. The back is a weird plasticky stuff but it feels nice in the hand and doesn't show up fingerprints like the last Bold did - but it's not as nice as the leather back on the Bold 9900. I had a problem rigging up twitter from the twitter icon. The blurb says you just go into accounts, click on the twitter icon and key in username and password and it should be set up. I couldn't get into twitter. I just got a whirly thing that never connected. I went into BB World, downloaded the twitter App and set it all up again - and it worked. Email account set up, same ease of set up for hotmail and live email accounts, just go into accounts, add account, select email account and key in email address and password and....it's set up. Not so with my BT ones. I can send email from the phone but can't receive. I'm assuming BT will be able to give me the correct settings to solve this but it's too late now for me to ring them and ask, so I'll have to tackle that problem tomorrow. Also, the default setting for email notifications seems to be 'no sound' so you may need to go into each account to set it to 'sound' and then choose your sound. I thought no emails were working but the hotmail and Live ones were its just that I got no sound to tell me emails had been received till I sussed out that little thing! I may have done something to make the sound selector go to the off position without realising, but I suspect silent was the default notifier setting.Customising the icons is easy. Bit like on Androids. You hold your finger over the icon you want to move, a blue line appears next to it and you swipe your finger to where you want it to go. There are a few pages of icons so if you want to move one from one page to another you have to make sure your swipe action goes across and off the screen other wise it just moves across the page its on rather than into the next page. And if you want to create a folder to shove several icons in together, you hold your finger over one, then wait for all the icons to vibrate, then you move one on top of another and let go. A folder appears, give it a name, and then do the same thing to move any other icons into that folder. If you want to take an icon out of a folder, you just swipe it to the bottom of the page and it escapes. Blackberry Desktop Help can't recognise the Q10 so you have to download Blackberry Link to backup your stuff and transfer stuff from an old BB to the Q10. Download of that is easy enough and so is backup. So far that's as far as I've got with it. I can't comment yet on battery life as it's early days. My main gripe about it is the BT email set up problem and that RIM have taken away the row of keys and the trackpad - but I think that's just because after using BB's for ages I've got so used to having it there and I just need to break the habit. The other thing I'm not sure about is this 'hub' thing that RIM think is so marvellous. For example, on the lock screen if you have had a call or a message, a notifier appears on the lock screen - but you can't get into the message by tapping on it. You have to go into the hub thingy and scroll to get to your message. Maybe there's another way, but I haven't found it yet. But, apart from those few niggles I like the phone. If you want loads of Apps, a fab touchscreen and camera - don't get this. If you want a fab keyboard for texting and emailing - this one is worth looking at. The keyboard on this is the best phone keyboard I've had. Hope this helps. |
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Might be worth waiting for GSMArena's battery life test on it - they run a standardised series of tests on handsets to make it easier to compare them directly.
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According to one of my friends, battery performance of Q10 is way better than 9900's.
But if battery life is a major deciding factor for you, it may be worth getting a feel for how the Q10 measure up to the competition - even the Z10. |
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No, it most certainly isn't.
It's a distinct drop in spec vs the Z10, so it's definitely not the flagship. http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3...&idPhone2=5274 I can 100% Guarrantee that this phone is the flagship, it carries the premium price ot match when up against the considerably cheaper Z10. Specification wise they are similar regarding the internals, screen real estate if that is what you are bothered about is obviously reduced to cater for the keyboard. But tell me what makes the Z10 the flagship? Blackberry has and will always be able the physical keyboard. Thats one of the reasons why the majority of users stick with it. Thats almost like saying saying the S4 from samsung isn't the flagship because they released the Note 2 in november and that is bigger? |
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Ive sussed the BT emails thing - you just need to select advanced at the bottom of the page when setting up the account and select yahoo! because BT use yahoo servers.
I left the phone on all night and the battery was still well charged. I love this phone. My only gripes are - 1) I miss the trackpad and the back arrow at the top of the keyboard. I want that back. and 2) if you increase your font size above '9' you can only see two lines of a text message in the box as you type. You carry on typing after two lines and you need to scroll down to read the whole message before sending. But if you have your font size on 9 or less, you can see your whole message in the box as you type. Other than that, I love it. The keyboard is the best one ever. |
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Specification wise they are similar regarding the internals, screen real estate if that is what you are bothered about is obviously reduced to cater for the keyboard. But tell me what makes the Z10 the flagship?
The Q10, by comparison, uses lesser components, a chipset based on older technology and a cheaper screen, which regardless of whether you also have a physical keyboard, is still the single most important feature of a handset running a geature-based OS. But more than that, the fact it was the device Blackberry chose to launch BB10 on. What you're claiming is that the most important new OS of the company's history, a change of direction that will make or break them, was launched on a second-tier handset instead of the device designed to show it off to the best of it's potential. |
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I've had the Q10 for a week now as my work phone as a replacement for my old Torch. I did look at the Z10 but it just felt a little too bulky in the hand and I'm a BB traditionalist when it comes to a keyboard.
On the plus side it is very fast and the browser is a huge improvement on previous models. On the downside the new gestures are taking a lot of getting used to (I keep automatically trying to hit a back button) and there is a real lack of BB10 apps. |
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A month down the line, I'm very happy with mine.
Keyboard - which is why I got it - is excellent. I don't download Apps really, so I can't offer any opinion regarding them. Battery life is still way better than any other BB I've had. And I've got used to the lack of a back button. I'm not as enamoured of the Hub as the BB creators are, though. I'd like to have my emails accessible from an icon on my Home screen. But that's not too big a gripe. |
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A month down the line, I'm very happy with mine.
Keyboard - which is why I got it - is excellent. I don't download Apps really, so I can't offer any opinion regarding them. Battery life is still way better than any other BB I've had. And I've got used to the lack of a back button. I'm not as enamoured of the Hub as the BB creators are, though. I'd like to have my emails accessible from an icon on my Home screen. But that's not too big a gripe. |
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I'm looking at getting this phone in a few weeks too. Keyboard looks top notch and looks more pleasant on the eye than the Iphone running IOS7.
It does seem to take ages to boot up when first switched on in the morning. You can't set the currency key as default on this one. It assumes you want the $ key, but if you hold the $ key down for a few seconds a menu box pops up for you to select £ I'd prefer to have the £ as default but I can live with it as it is. And backspacing to correct a typo is done by using the touchscreen. You touch the screen for a few seconds and a big circle appears, you move that back and forth to the letter or symbol you want to delete and it just takes a bit of getting used to. But I really like it. The Bold 9900 with the leather back and trackball is my most favourite BB of all, but its browser was so slow! This one is better because its Browser is much faster. |
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There are a few niggles - but it's really just getting used to the new style and breaking the habit of previous BB's.
You can't set the currency key as default on this one. It assumes you want the $ key, but if you hold the $ key down for a few seconds a menu box pops up for you to select £ I'd prefer to have the £ as default but I can live with it as it is. And backspacing to correct a typo is done by using the touchscreen. You touch the screen for a few seconds and a big circle appears, you move that back and forth to the letter or symbol you want to delete and it just takes a bit of getting used to. But I really like it. |
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I take it there's regular software updates? It looks a decent alternative to Android I think.
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I thought no emails were working but the hotmail and Live ones were its just that I got no sound to tell me emails had been received till I sussed out that little thing! I may have done something to make the sound selector go to the off position without realising, but I suspect silent was the default notifier setting.