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Hi everyone. Scott Lewis here for Wirefly. Today, I'm here to give you a quick look at
the brand new Blackberry Z10 for T Mobile. Let's go ahead and dig into the box and see
what you get with your Z10. Right on top is the phone. We'll get to that in a second.
Let's see what else comes in the box. It looks like our T Mobile SIM card and some
users manuals, micro-usb charge cable, the usb charge block, just a single port and the
battery for our Z10. The battery for the Z10 is a 1800 mAh power battery. It should be
good for 10 hours of talk time and 13 days of standby time. It's a very considerable
size battery for the Blackberry. Let's sit the box out of the way.
Let's start peeling some stickers off so we can unveil the Blackberry Z10. Right away
you can see that this doesn't look like any other Blackberry that's been out. It is a
full touch screen Blackberry with a 4.2 inch diagonal screen, with a screen resolution
of 768 by 1280 which gives it an overall pixel density of 356 pixels per inch.
I'm going to go ahead and turn the camera off now and I'll pick it up after I boot up
the Z10, we'll do a quick tour around the phone, we'll talk about a few more specs and
I'll give you a quick tour of the Blackberry 10 operating system.
Here's our Blackberry Z10 all booted up and connected to the T Mobile 4G network. The
start screen has you with a swipe up to unlock. This is the home screen but this is actually,
also, the multi-tasking screen. This is the last four applications that I happened to
go in to. You have the weather. If you wanted to launch that, you could go right into it.
With a swipe up, you would go back to the screen.
You can go into the browser, same thing. One of the key features of the Blackberry is the
Blackberry Hub. For that, it's going to be the screen farthest to the left. Now, this
is my particular Hub. I signed into a couple of email accounts, a Facebook account and
a Twitter account and you can see that it has all the different stuff, emails and everything
aggregated into one place. It even has calendar reminders. You can break
it down in to specific emails or if you just want to see Facebook or Twitter posts, you
can go there or if you want to get the whole Hub back which is all of the accounts that
you have signed in, you just tap on the general Blackberry Hub.
We'll swipe over to get back to our multi-tasking screen and then you can swipe over one more
time and you have a little bit more common app tray. This has all the different preloaded
applications. Your regular settings and menus, Facebook, Twitter, music Blackberry app world
or just Blackberry world now is where you get your applications for your Blackberry
Smart Phone. BBM which is Blackberry Messenger which is a great feature on the Blackberry.
Let's go ahead and take a tour of the phone real quick. You can see the navigation keys
are not physical keys. They are virtual keys on the screen. As you see, I'm doing a lot
of gestures on the phone. That's definitely a way to navigate the phone versus some of
the more common ways of navigating through Android Smart Phones and Windows Smart Phones.
It's a little bit different with some different gestures. You can do Peek and Flow. If you're
actually in an application, let's go ahead and open the browser and instead of going
all the way back and then gesturing over, you can actually take a look. There's nothing
that you want to go and look at, you can just swipe back to the application that you're
in. The nice thing about that is let's say you're
playing a video. We'll go ahead and load a video real quick. You can actually peek at
your information and see if there's anything you want to look at or go into while your
video is still playing. You can go right back and jump right back into where you were at
with the video. As far as design, the Blackberry is made from,
mostly, plastic. It obviously has a glass front. The back cover is the nice soft plastic
touch with the Blackberry logo on the back. It is a removal back cover and we'll take
that off in a second here. Note real quick it is an 8 mega pixel rear facing camera,
it records video in 1080P, has an LED flash. The front facing camera is a 2 mega pixel
front facing camera and as far as thickness, the Blackberry Z10 is 9 mm thin and it weighs
4.85 ounces for a total weight and that's with battery installed.
Let's go ahead and take a look under the hood here. This is the 1800 mAh battery for the
Z10 and we have a spot for micro SD card so you can expand storage on a Z10. It does come
with 16 gigabytes of internal storage already on it and then, this is a spot for our micro
SIM card. One other thing to note, you can see the contacts on the phone and contacts
on the back cover and that's going to be for your NFC or near field communication technology
that the Z10 has built in. I'll put the back cover on. On the top here,
we have our 3.5 mm headphone jack, the power and sleep button, small microphone, volume
up and down rocker switch. The center button is going to be for the voice assist. That's
the micro usb charge port and the micro HDMI output and then, you also have a microphone
at the bottom here underneath the Blackberry logo.
I think I mentioned it before but just as a quick reminder, it is running the Blackberry
10 operating system. Empowering the phone in the operating system is a 1.5 Ghz dual-core
processor and 2 GB of RAM. There's a lot of interesting software integrations with the
Blackberry 10 operating system on the Z10. We'll be cover most of those in our full review
so make sure to check that out. That wraps up our quick look today. My name is Scott
Lewis with Wirefly. Thanks for watching.