Blackberry 10: A New Era for BlackBerry Smartphones

The BlackBerry 10 operating system is a new direction for BlackBerry, and it looks like they've done a great job with it. As soon as I started watching the demos, I was struck by how smooth everything looked. This is something that we take for granted in iOS, Android, and Windows Phone these days, but it's still impressive to see. The gestures and multitasking features were also really impressive, especially when it comes to one-handed use.

One thing you won't find on any BlackBerry 10 smartphone is a home button, so instead, everything is optimized to work with gestures. For example, if you want to do some multitasking, you swipe in from the bottom. If you want to check your notifications, you swipe in from the left. It all seems to work pretty well, and it's also really optimized for one-handed use. The keyboard, which I was shown off during the demos, looks really IR responsive and is way ahead of anything else out there. You can even type without pressing any spaces, and it will figure out what you're saying.

One of the big things they were talking about at BlackBerry World was BlackBerry Hub, which integrates all kinds of information into a single spot. This isn't a new idea, but it looks like BlackBerry has done a really good implementation with this version. It takes a lot of different information, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more, and puts them all in one place. If you want to look up some information on one person, maybe like a contact or whatever, it will populate all the rest of the information and put it all in one spot. For example, if you want to shoot an email to someone, tweet something, and check their LinkedIn profile, it'll all be available from one spot.

BBM has also been updated with video chatting built-in, which looks pretty much like FaceTime. It's not revolutionary, but it's a nice feature to add. And on top of that, BlackBerry has added the ability to screen share using BBM video chat, which is actually something really cool. Screen sharing has been around on the desktop with Skype and that kind of thing, but being able to do it from your phone is really cool.

Apps will also be well taken care of in BlackBerry 10, as it launches with over 70,000 apps. Most of these are probably not going to be all that high quality, however, you will find quite a few of the standard things you would expect, including Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Kindle, and more. On top of that, it also does have support for Android apps, sort of. It ships with an Android 2.3 virtual machine, so when you want to do an Android app, you can kind of make it work.

The BlackBerry Z10 will start to go on sale around the world over the next couple of months, starting in the UK where it'll be available tomorrow. However, if you live in Canada, you'll have to wait until next month, and for the United States, it'll be launching both on AT&T as well as Verizon in March, priced at $200 on a 2-year contract.

What Do You Think About BlackBerry 10?

Personally, I'm not really giving up physical keyboards anytime soon, but the Z10 does look like something that I would be actually interested in. I definitely do plan on doing a review of it as soon as I can get my hands on one. But for now, I'd love to hear from you guys - what do you think about BlackBerry 10 and the new phones? Do you have any thoughts or opinions on this new operating system? Be sure to leave them in the comments below.

If you're interested in more, be sure to check out some of my recent reviews of other high-end smartphones. And if you enjoyed this video, don't forget to leave it a thumbs up and subscribe for more BlackBerry 10 content. I'll catch you next time!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a recap of the Blackberry 10 launch so not only did they announce the brand new operating system but they also announced a pair of new phones to go with it so let's take a look starting with the phones they announced one with a keyboard which is going to be the Q10 and one without the keyboard which is going to be the Z10 so I think the Z10 is going to be more of the mainstream option as it does have a 4.2 in touchcreen as well as a pretty good looking design it is packing some pretty decent specs however so that 4.2in display has a resolution of 1280 x 768 giving it a very high pict density comparable to what you would find on the iPhone and some other high-end handsets and on top of that it also is powered by a dual core 1.5 GHz processor now they weren't exactly specific on what this is but my money would be on a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 you'll also find 2 GB of RAM on board as well as 16 GB of storage built in now something I think a lot of people are going to like is that the back plate is removable so that means that you can go ahead and swap the battery the SIM card as well as add an SD card of up to 32 GB as far as the cameras go it Sports an 8 megapix shooter around round back with 1080p video recording as well as a front-facing camera with 720p video If you're looking for a keyboard the Q10 is where it's at so this looks much more like a typical blackberry and if I trust them to do anything right it's going to be to make an awesome physical keyboard however this actually does look pretty nice as if you flip it over to the back has a special glass woven material which Blackberry was very very eager to kind of talk about and say how amazing it is so it's probably not all that special but it does give it a very nice look to the device this is also powered by a dual core processor Unfortunately they weren't very specific as as far as the specs go so a lot of the stuff will probably find out a little bit later as the Z10 will be coming out much sooner than the Q10 however what you can expect is a 3.1 in touchscreen of course with a resolution of 720 X 720 which again should actually be a very nice screen the star of the show is definitely Blackberry 10 so they pretty much removed everything as far as the old Blackberry OS and I've taken a few bits from The Playbook OS but for the most part this is all new and it looks good not amazing but it looks good so the first thing that struck me as I was watching all the demos was it looked very smooth smooth now of course this is something that we pretty much take for granted in iOS Android Windows Phone these days but it is good to see that it looked very smooth and a lot the gestures and the multitasking were actually really impressive one thing you won't find on any Blackberry 10 smartphone is a home button so instead everything is really optimized to work with gestures for example if you want to do some multitasking you swipe in from the bottom you want to check your notifications you swipe in from the left and it seemed to work pretty well on top of that it's also really optimized for one-handed use so for example the keyboard which they showed off of course the Touch version of it looks really IR responsive and way way ahead of anything else that's out there so for example you could just not do any spaces and it would be very very smart as far as figuring at what you're saying one of the big things they were talking about is BlackBerry Hub which basically integrates all kinds of information into a single spot now this is hardly a new idea however it looks like they did a really good implementation with this version so basically it takes a lot of different information for example Facebook Twitter LinkedIn but it also takes other things for example calls emails texts calendars it all puts it into one spot so if you want to look up some information on one person maybe like a contact or whatever well it will populate all the rest of the information and it'll all be available in one spot so for example you could look up a person's email address shoot them an email then tweet something go check on LinkedIn all from one spot and it looked really nice and smooth BBM also now has video chatting built in so it looks pretty much like FaceTime nothing all that revolutionary but it is a kind of a nice feature to add and on top of that something I'm a little bit more excited about is the fact that you can screen share using BBM video chat so this is actually something really cool of course screen sharing has been around on the desktop with Skype and that kind of thing but be able to actually do that from your phone is really cool it also looks like apps are going to be well taken care of so bb10 will be launching with over 70,000 now of course most of these are probably not going to be all that high quality however you will find quite a few of the standard things you would expect including Twitter Facebook Skype Kindle and much more on top of that it also does have support for Android apps sort of so basically it ships with an Android 2.3 virtual machine so when you want to do an Android app you can kind of make it work but of course running in a virtual machine probably not going to give you the best performance but the possibility of using Android apps is there the BlackBerry Z10 will start to go on sale around the world over the next couple months so for example in the UK it actually goes on sale tomorrow however if you live in Canada you going have to wait till next month and for the United States you're going to have to wait until March where it'll be launching both on AT&T as well as Verizon for $200 on a 2-year contract anyway guys I'm curious to know what do you think about Blackberry 10 as well as the new phones personally the Q10 really doesn't do it for me I'm kind of giving up physical keyboards a long time ago however the Z10 looks like something that I would be actually interested in and I definitely do plan on doing a review on it as soon as I can get my hands on one but anyway definitely be sure to let me know what you guys think in the comments below if you guys are interested in more feel free to check out some reviews I've done of some other high-end smartphones lately and if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and subscribe for more Blackberry 10 content anyway guys I will catch you next time nhey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a recap of the Blackberry 10 launch so not only did they announce the brand new operating system but they also announced a pair of new phones to go with it so let's take a look starting with the phones they announced one with a keyboard which is going to be the Q10 and one without the keyboard which is going to be the Z10 so I think the Z10 is going to be more of the mainstream option as it does have a 4.2 in touchcreen as well as a pretty good looking design it is packing some pretty decent specs however so that 4.2in display has a resolution of 1280 x 768 giving it a very high pict density comparable to what you would find on the iPhone and some other high-end handsets and on top of that it also is powered by a dual core 1.5 GHz processor now they weren't exactly specific on what this is but my money would be on a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 you'll also find 2 GB of RAM on board as well as 16 GB of storage built in now something I think a lot of people are going to like is that the back plate is removable so that means that you can go ahead and swap the battery the SIM card as well as add an SD card of up to 32 GB as far as the cameras go it Sports an 8 megapix shooter around round back with 1080p video recording as well as a front-facing camera with 720p video If you're looking for a keyboard the Q10 is where it's at so this looks much more like a typical blackberry and if I trust them to do anything right it's going to be to make an awesome physical keyboard however this actually does look pretty nice as if you flip it over to the back has a special glass woven material which Blackberry was very very eager to kind of talk about and say how amazing it is so it's probably not all that special but it does give it a very nice look to the device this is also powered by a dual core processor Unfortunately they weren't very specific as as far as the specs go so a lot of the stuff will probably find out a little bit later as the Z10 will be coming out much sooner than the Q10 however what you can expect is a 3.1 in touchscreen of course with a resolution of 720 X 720 which again should actually be a very nice screen the star of the show is definitely Blackberry 10 so they pretty much removed everything as far as the old Blackberry OS and I've taken a few bits from The Playbook OS but for the most part this is all new and it looks good not amazing but it looks good so the first thing that struck me as I was watching all the demos was it looked very smooth smooth now of course this is something that we pretty much take for granted in iOS Android Windows Phone these days but it is good to see that it looked very smooth and a lot the gestures and the multitasking were actually really impressive one thing you won't find on any Blackberry 10 smartphone is a home button so instead everything is really optimized to work with gestures for example if you want to do some multitasking you swipe in from the bottom you want to check your notifications you swipe in from the left and it seemed to work pretty well on top of that it's also really optimized for one-handed use so for example the keyboard which they showed off of course the Touch version of it looks really IR responsive and way way ahead of anything else that's out there so for example you could just not do any spaces and it would be very very smart as far as figuring at what you're saying one of the big things they were talking about is BlackBerry Hub which basically integrates all kinds of information into a single spot now this is hardly a new idea however it looks like they did a really good implementation with this version so basically it takes a lot of different information for example Facebook Twitter LinkedIn but it also takes other things for example calls emails texts calendars it all puts it into one spot so if you want to look up some information on one person maybe like a contact or whatever well it will populate all the rest of the information and it'll all be available in one spot so for example you could look up a person's email address shoot them an email then tweet something go check on LinkedIn all from one spot and it looked really nice and smooth BBM also now has video chatting built in so it looks pretty much like FaceTime nothing all that revolutionary but it is a kind of a nice feature to add and on top of that something I'm a little bit more excited about is the fact that you can screen share using BBM video chat so this is actually something really cool of course screen sharing has been around on the desktop with Skype and that kind of thing but be able to actually do that from your phone is really cool it also looks like apps are going to be well taken care of so bb10 will be launching with over 70,000 now of course most of these are probably not going to be all that high quality however you will find quite a few of the standard things you would expect including Twitter Facebook Skype Kindle and much more on top of that it also does have support for Android apps sort of so basically it ships with an Android 2.3 virtual machine so when you want to do an Android app you can kind of make it work but of course running in a virtual machine probably not going to give you the best performance but the possibility of using Android apps is there the BlackBerry Z10 will start to go on sale around the world over the next couple months so for example in the UK it actually goes on sale tomorrow however if you live in Canada you going have to wait till next month and for the United States you're going to have to wait until March where it'll be launching both on AT&T as well as Verizon for $200 on a 2-year contract anyway guys I'm curious to know what do you think about Blackberry 10 as well as the new phones personally the Q10 really doesn't do it for me I'm kind of giving up physical keyboards a long time ago however the Z10 looks like something that I would be actually interested in and I definitely do plan on doing a review on it as soon as I can get my hands on one but anyway definitely be sure to let me know what you guys think in the comments below if you guys are interested in more feel free to check out some reviews I've done of some other high-end smartphones lately and if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and subscribe for more Blackberry 10 content anyway guys I will catch you next time n