I prefer the Blackberry Priv form factor. All screen most of the time and a slide out keyboard when you need to get work done. Why just have a productivity phone when you can get one that you could also have fun with?
What's crazy is that I bought one for $55 with it's box, original charger, and belt clip. This device still works in 2023, since it has LTE. It's amazing
I feel bad that we're stuck with only Android and iOS now. This phone looks great to me. I wish I had one in 2013. Am I the only one who misses the diversity?
I was really surprised when it came to this phone. BB did a great job with it and should be proud. I may have gotten a 7 but it's the only querty phone worthy to talk about. Thank you for the review and keep up the great work!
Blackberry seeded this phone to me at work yesterday and through a day of use I am loving it. They took way too long with these devices (the z10) should've made this like 2 years ago or something. I'm going in between my HTC one,l and nexus 4 alot and I have no problem adding this in the mix. Its weird because I usually don't bang with BlackBerry
I'd go for the WP if I were you, more apps and Nokia is really committed to supporting devices and getting software updates/added features out there quickly :)
Interesting. One version of the Q10 may indeed be using the OMAP 4470 (and that may include our review unit) - but the US version uses the Qualcomm S4. For confirmation, see the Q10 specs page at BlackBerry's US site. ^MF
After all these years im back on android which is a note 4 and thinking of getting a blackberry for texting and phone calls only. Done with apple for good.
+Skank yes, I know firsthand. I replaced my BlackBerry Z10 with an iPhone 5C for a little Christmas gift for myself and I regret it so much, Apple nickel and dimes the hell out of me and I have no storage and iCloud services lose backup because I can't afford to get more storage for that thing. I wanna get me another BlackBerry, a Q10, for my birthday on June 10th because I love the way BlackBerry is so resilient and still hangs on, also when I used the Z10, I had such incredible integration with email, messaging, and alerts with the BlackBerry Hub. I don't want to see the day that BlackBerry says they're dropping out of the smartphone game because they've been around since feature phones were still hip, and I feel BlackBerry matches my personality better.
im looking to get one and just haven't found a review that hooks my attention, good reviews, byt kinda boring. This one is amazing and it also made me smile when I recognised mr. mobiles voice
Great permeation. Although there may be some shortcomings for the typical Android/I phone users, what market was Blackberry seeking. My guess is the professional individual.
What i really miss about the Q10 is the dedicated back and blackberry button if i didnt know how to do something I would press that and it would show like everything i needed
Palm (and later HP) called it "Just Type," and it provided much more than just search functionality in webOS 2.x. Palm's product was (and continues to be) superior. ^MF
Michael Fisher should know the device that he is reviewing. His remark of how easy you can touch power button, shows us that he doesn't know major point of turning on the screen by just swiping it. And he never mentioned that Very useful option on blackberry q10. And also he didn't cover all the cute short cuts on blackberry QWERTY keyboard. As usual Michael Fisher is just scratching the surface of the device that he is reviewing.
Awesome video review. I do have a question though: I currently use Android and HATE that it runs apps in the background when I didn't even open the app. N when I use a task killer and kill the apps, they just pop up again. Does BB10 have this problem? Pls help, bc it's actually a deal breaker for me. Thanks.
Does anyone know if blackberry solved their freezing problem? My roommate was sick of his blackberry because it would randomly freeze. This has been a problem with other users as well.
why didn't Blackberry just build a Blackberry with a larger screen, and just have the keyboard slide out kinda like the Blackberry Torch 9800 and 9810. This way People who love the keyboard and people who love larger screen can have both of each in one.
+TQ It is now known as the Blackberry Priv. Too little and too late. Furthermore, having to deal with the touch screen keyboard and the sliding physical keyboard will become a task of tedium for some to most people. Still, as a curiosity, it may be nice to collect the Blackberry Priv as a collector's item.
Please can you also review the Q5 and the current BBM app store compared to android ?? I have a budget that is sufficient to buy a Q5 or a similar priced android.
Gentlemen, would you kindly reply me back whether BB Q10 supports the entire or at least Android Apps, and how do they look like with their functionality and usage, do they still limited as the used at the previous versions of BB or actually they became wider with their usage, options and user wide range of app's interaction and possibly could compete to the other phi especially OSs such as android, etc.
Nice review :) I really like the new BB devicies, if I hadn't bought the Lumia 920 a few months ago I'd definetely go for either the Z10 or the Q10. And btw. you really remind me of Tony Stark :D
Check the specs on gsmarena. The Q10 has a TI OMAP 4470 1.5ghz dual core A9. A9 is not as fast as krait s4 which is why q10 is laggy compared to the Z10. they used a slower chipset on the Q10 because it has to drive a lower resolution screen.
my contract ends in november and i already have HTC one sim free after my galaxy s3 broke 3 months ago , maybe will get one as a second phone or look for shorter contract and get q5
Loses points for a small screen? The Blackberry phones screen have always been small roughly around 2.5-3 inches, dont see how it would lose points for that. All in all good review.
The BB phones dont really have this problem, or atleast I dont. You can press and hold the menu button to see what all is running, natively it runs phone, bbm, mail, and home. There is an app called Blackberry Application Resource Monitor that will shut down any apps it feels is draining the battering, which is nice because i tend to leave gps or yellow pages open and it shuts it down for me if i forget.
