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the blackberry ten
i went to the front line to make it to me is that correct
electric cited demos looks pretty good
i've been using it for the last couple of weeks into paraphrase reliance on
this is a big step for blackberry but a small step for smartphones
it does what it needs to do because some of it very well
garcetti idiosyncrasies but no major fires there's a lot to discuss
outright repeal said ten is an original device in heart is not great from older
lymphomas
but i can't help refer to the iphone which has been my personal choice for
the last year
more accessories then you might expect
documentation charger ear buds with mic cleaning cloth and the case
the woven metal back looks and feels sleek it's comfortable the hold
the phone has my career that's being migrated here my connectors
the back is removable so you can insert or later replaced the battery also slots
for micro samina mike arrest e-card
phys ed ten has thirty two gigs of internal memory my caress the supports
up to another thirty two the eggs
setup is straightforward
i'm using the my courage p_m_i_ output to record directly from the phone using
a standard but optional micro aged e_m_i_ katya my cable
that's a nice feature
selector language update the software restart connector wifi
keyboardist plays both numbers and letters handy
press the i_r_a_ common to see the password you've typed download an except
the license agreement
crater sign into a blackberry count
the keyboard changes from entering your address to enter your password
word of the numbers go
and why
except the privacy invasion more updates
and now demo of navigation techniques for the touchscreen
it straight forward and reasonably intuitive once you've seen the tutorial
were set up
time zone
and then configure all your accounts one or more emails face book twitter linked
and i never know
mine on standard hosted personal gmail connected after entering the address and
password
nags
ones that dan has these accounts accounts to set up your contacting
counter from those services
very useful
in a few moments the phones fully configured and ready to go
i really like with this does for contacts
in addition to details you can also see recent activity
using the updates and activity tabs
if the contacted cysts in multiple services
you can select the photo you prefer
this is the standby screen
new messengers have a red star
the slight bump opens to the last screen
i wanted to click on a red star died in the jump directly to the new messages
but that didn't work
there is a lot you can do with just your right from
and the flick up from the bottom is totally natural an addictive i find
myself doing that and other devices now
did i mention the screen resolution it's twelve eighty by seven sixty eight with
the pixel density of three fifty six branch
it's big
it's chris
the hub is always successful swipe up and right
this is an integrated inbox of all messages from all of your services mail
phone text linkedin twitter
swipe from the right or the ellipsis starts at the bottom brings up the
context menu
the hot button in the lower left or a swipe from the left
lets you select specific accounts of services to you just those messages
to compose
first you've got to select the service
man in my mind i want to select the contact first and uh... service but
with the tight integration you'd expect that if you receive a face book
notification you'd be able to follow it up
stacy commented on my post but i can't get to it with the face book
notification luckily
i'll save that email notifications and that allows me to read the comment
so although the facebook notification seems useful
emails actually the better option
this is the phone interface
recent calls contacts and a dial pad
the nice feature here is called out
to make notes about the call
note the keyboards flick words feature
as you type it predicts words for several letters
if that's right just flick it to the message
incoming call so i don't answer or just click on the name to stop the ringing no
other options
i'd love to be able to send a text that says i'm busy herbal products in order
play a quick voice creating that puts the potholed until i get to a place
where i could have a conversation
phone functionality is straightforward
the three buttons across the top are shortcuts
the tap dials the number
contacts are added using the contact up
i'd appreciate a little better integration here
the call notes that you make are stored in reminders will get to that man
i have to update my counter know that changed tickets to the previous night
past switching is straightforward
i like the date time selection widget changing both together
now that i thought they did the event on the blackberry
it sinks backing up dates the original i count event on my computer and updates
the other invitees to
calendar face book integration is a bonus
events that i've accepted in face book which don't appear in counters on my
other devices appear here
there's the agenda view
the schedule view
and that people view
which shows me the friends will also be attending the love shack craft in
organized on face book
searching his voice in a bold
the period he has a my contacts
except more privacy invasions
confined aps
voice recognition is good
but the instant filtering as you enter characters is pretty cool
here's the home screen
hall of the apts are displayed here with phoned universal search in the camera
always available across the bottom
you can rearrange by holding until they paulson dropping one onto another
creates a folder which you can name
trash cans at least the apt
closer for thereby swiping up from the bottom
the last eight caps appears home screen widgets many of which like weather
have live updates
keyboards canfield inconsistent
sometimes there's their fourth line for a number of sometimes not
sometimes you get the predictive flick word sometimes you don't
i'm sure there's a rationale but i haven't figured it out yet
the predictive text is nice
it supports entry for up to three languages you select which three in
settings i've selected english french dutch
which explains some of the foreign words appearing on the keyboard
unless you're really multitasking multi lingual e it's a bit distracting
it is nice to have though is specially if you're a dutch spelling is below par
i'm still finding accuracy difficult
i think i'm flicking award but instead just got a letter
auto correct appears on the space bar a few things you venture word incorrectly
the correct word appears on the space bar click to accept the correction
or flexed to use the word you've typed
voice dictation for text entry works reasonably well we need to remember
think period at the end of the sentence
but a true daughter ocap it'll always knew paragraphs without prompting
attacked the scream to get the cursor highlight
and then slide your finger to where you want to add it
click on a red underlined word to correct it
that
rotation
some acts like waiter and calendar
or specific mods and other apts won't rotate
peasantry orient speak up and writes like is particularly confusing when you
transition through the non rotating home screen between two rotated aps
let's talk a little bit about design
the slow swipe up shows you that there's a reasonably powerful processor
able to handle complex graphics tasks
however
most of the interfaces flash and two-dimensional
following a recent design trend away from three-dimensional textured and skew
more fic designs with complex motion geometry is
virtually all the native apts embody the same design philosophy
except for the very skew morphing compass
clock
and calculator
these few more for clock has several nice features
their world time zones
a stopwatch
with multiple lap timers
and the countdown clock
i like the way you set the alarm
or the countdown by dragging the pointer
the display can be either analog or digital
a nice feature is the bedside manner
as long as it's connected to power this mode stays displayed all night long with
a soft orange glow
maps
here is that awkward keyboard again you have to switch standard numbers and
there's no predictive text
why the inconsistency
uses a search is helpful but sometimes has trouble parsing address or just
can't find it
map seems slow to load maybe it's the server
navigation doesn't provide transit or walking directions time and distance the
destination appear on screen which i like prepared to turn right
leaders spoken directions is slightly stills is compared to other map aps
but does include street names
the first refine search indicated in the legal left turn
although apple maps also gets this wrongful deaths are right
in general i was happy with the roots of provided
id we calculates quickly if you don't follow the instructions
maps are slightly crudely rendered
the screen stays on while in navigation mode which heats up battery quite
quickly
if you turn the screen off navigation stops
unlike other devices which continue to provide spoken instructions
dropbox is one of my essential products are the details
so i'm pleased that it's installed by default
it's actually well integrated after you connect you can click on view my files
but drop offs also appears in the blackberry tense native file manager
you can preview documents
not sure about this morning
or send them to documents to go for anything
the document preview is much better than i a west devices
compared side by side you clearly want the blackberry
it displays the font
table layout and sell color correctly
anaya last year after load the document into apples ten dollar pages ap
the file management options include opening documents to go
but it's simpler to open the document and then select the edit pencil
let's back up for a moment
documents to go as a mobile application suite of acquired by blackberry and
bundled with his ed ten
if you haven't used ox to go before there's a quick powerpoint intro
word and excel documents open
display with their full formatting and can be edited
with one exception
some unsupported formulas are displayed in excel to go but lost the document
preventing editing
you can add it documents using the keyboard
or voice dictation
to edit tap where you want the cursor
to make the keyboard go away
hold the space bar
i find the small screen makes the process somewhat awkward especially
placing the cursor accurately
andy undo redial buttons while handy are sometimes in the way
to save
click close
ellipsis opens more options
using save as you can save back to drop box
sink is a little buddy
i did find myself wishing for a way to force a refresh
you can create excel worksheets as long as you can remember the formulas
weirded flick words go
although you can't create powerpoint decks you can edit them
haley flick words are back
you can save a copy locally for offline access using the pain feature you can
even paying all of dropbox
recent documents are displayed but don't include files opened her saved in
dropbox
and sometimes search can't find the file
the nice integration of dropbox and uh... docs to go sweet are solid reasons
to prefer the said ten
and although there's no native note application with word two though you may
not miss it
remembered is an all-purpose storage area for emails documents web pages
folders can sink with evernote in the cloud
but that setting is only available while creating a folder
afterwards there doesn't seem to be a way to sink it in every note
it is strange that blackberry doesn't have their own cloud storage service
maybe i'm still getting used to it that and finding the ability to save items in
the folder somewhat clumsy
and not everything is easily saved
i can't find a way distorts email messages in remember folders
to put our travel info in one place
remember shows promise
i'm sure to point out will be better
and there's no need of reminders that if that's what you were expecting
the blackberry browser can be erratic
flashes supported which is nice
i can see my fic bit sleep chart
pages load and display is expected
i don't find it particularly fast
occasionally like they tried to stars html five pages rendering is off
the toronto hydro time of use page won't load
and then a few hours later it does
pages sometimes become completely unresponsive you can't click on anything
even back doesn't work
i found video playback to be problematic on sites like the star city t_v_ tsn
the ads play the main content doesn't or just plain doesn't play here at the
video should play fullscreen
and i a headache this little puzzle icon
video performance seems worse on l t even wifi
the hot spot functionality is excellent
robust and reliable
i'm not sure if his ed ten uses battery more quickly than other smartphones
it certainly doesn't last thirty or three days the way a blackberry i owned
a few years ago did
and really used it a lot but several times over the last month it's been
totally drained by dinner time
very unexpected
turning the screen off with the press of the power button on top
to power off for restart hold the key for a few seconds until the power off
screen appears and then hit restart