{"id":640895,"date":"2013-02-01T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=606571"},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:38:33","slug":"two-days-with-the-blackberry-z10-some-likes-some-dislikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640895","title":{"rendered":"Two days with the BlackBerry Z10: Some likes, some dislikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t quite been 48 hours <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/01\/30\/video-first-look-at-the-z10-with-blackberry-10\/\">since I left Wednesday&#8217;s BlackBerry 10 event with the new Z10<\/a> handset, so I can&#8217;t provide a full review yet. Stay tuned for that next week. However, as I formulate the review, I&#8217;m definitely seeing things I really like about the new product, as well as a few aspects that have me scratching my head.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order then are some thoughts on the experience, both good and bad. I think many of the shortcomings can (and will) be resolved over time, but of course, you should always buy a product for what it does now, as well as for your specific needs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Z10 hardware is impressive. Great display, responsive and has a nice texture on the back, making it comfortable to hold. It weighs a little more than the iPhone 5 and is a smidge thicker, but doesn&#8217;t feel bulky at all.<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t used the camera except for a few stills, so I can&#8217;t comment. I did read about poor low light camera performance, which I&#8217;ll test.<\/li>\n<li>Battery life has me concerned, particular because I&#8217;ve been using the device on Wi-Fi only until this morning; I&#8217;m now using a nano SIM with adapter. I got through the day yesterday but not with heavy usage; I&#8217;ll say moderate with little video playback. Battery level was 20 percent at the end of the day.<\/li>\n<li>I like that there&#8217;s no hardware &#8220;home&#8221; button. BlackBerry&#8217;s gestures are quite good &#8212; they were on the PlayBook too &#8212; and bring more functionality.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s also no &#8220;home&#8221; screen in the traditional sense. If no apps are running,\u00a0you start with a grid of apps. Open an app, slide up to minimize it and it dynamically becomes a widget on a new main screen. Eight of these are supported at one time; plenty for me and easy to switch through. I can navigate through my open apps and tasks quite fast. Here&#8217;s a look:<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/bb_home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:1px solid black;\" alt=\"BB10 home\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/bb_home.jpg?w=254&#038;h=425\" width=\"254\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-606668\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Love the &#8220;peek&#8221; gesture which shows the number of messages; to see this, you slide up the screen from the bottom during any activity.<\/li>\n<li>While the BlackBerry Hub function is smart &#8212; this consolidates mail, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, BBM &#8212; it is slow to start up when powering on the device and it can be lacking. You can reply to a Tweet, for example, but I don&#8217;t see a way to retweet; for that I seem to have to go into the Twitter client. It&#8217;s also a pain to delete all of the tweets and Facebook updates from the Hub to remove clutter. Here&#8217;s an example with tweets, Facebook status updates and read email:<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/bb_hub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:1px solid black;\" alt=\"BlackBerry Hub\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/bb_hub.jpg?w=254&#038;h=425\" width=\"254\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-606593\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The software keyboard is outstanding. So much so, that on a recent podcast, I said it may be the best for any platform. Even though I generally use two thumbs for on-screen keyboards, I&#8217;m cranking out text with one hand due to the word prediction over the next letter of each typed word.<\/li>\n<li>Email is generally good, but you can&#8217;t move from message to message; every email action takes you back to the inbox. Ugh.<\/li>\n<li>The web browser is solid and fast. Adobe Flash is supported for those that care, but turned off by default. Search suggestions are good. Zooming and scrolling is fluid; page loads appear fast. I like the Reader function; same as in iOS.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing information is similar to Android, meaning: great! Sharing a web page, for example, brings up options for BBM, mail, Facebook, Twitter, Bluetooth, NFC, etc&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The lack of apps that I use on other devices is concerning. BlackBerry has commitments for Skype, Amazon Kindle and others, but they&#8217;re not there. Nor is Netflix, any recognizable top-tier games, or my offline reading platforms. Google Talk is there, but no Google Voice; a must for me on any phone. YouTube is the HTML 5 mobile site wrapped up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have plenty more to test; as I said, the full review will be coming soon. 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