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BlackBerry Maker Unveils Its New Line
*www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/blackberry-maker-unveils-its-new-line.html?_r=0
Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone
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BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 unveiled, first BB10 smartphones - GSMArena.com news
Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone
BlackBerry Z10 Features And Specifications Round Up | Ubergizmo
Specs
Blackberry Z10
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4.2” WXGA screen (1,280 x 768, 356ppi pixel density)
Dual-core Krait CPU 1.5GHz
2 GB RAM
8MP main camera, 1080p video
HDMI port
16 GB Internal
microSD card
Bluetooth 4.0
NFC
*www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/blackberry-maker-unveils-its-new-line.html?_r=0
Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone
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the once iconic company dominating the smartphone industry, now struggling to survive, has finally entered the segment of full touch screen operating system.BlackBerry’s maker unveiled a new operating system and a new line of phones on Wednesday, along with a new corporate name, with the hope of restoring its products’ status as a symbol of executive cool.
Analysts, technology reviewers and app developers with advance access to the BlackBerry Z10 and the BlackBerry 10 operating system have said it is the company’s first competitive touch-screen phone. But BlackBerry 10 arrives long after Apple’s iPhone and phones using Google’s Android operating system have come to dominate the smartphone market that the BlackBerry effectively created. According to IDC, BlackBerry now holds just 4.6 percent of that market, about one-tenth of its historic peak.
To emphasize the changes brought by the new operating system, Thorsten Heins, who took over as chief executive a year ago, said the company, known until now as Research In Motion, had adopted BlackBerry as its corporate name. Its Nasdaq trading symbol will become BBRY, and it will trade as BB in Toronto.
In addition to the BlackBerry Z10 phone, there will be a second model, the Q10, that includes one of the line’s signature physical keyboards. Verizon Wireless announced that it would price the Z10 at $200 with a two-year contract.
BlackBerry said the Z10 would be available in the United States in March and in Canada on Feb. 5.
“Today represents a new day in the history of BlackBerry,” Mr. Heins said. “These BlackBerry 10 devices are absolutely the best typing experiences in the industry.”
There were few surprises in the initial portion of Mr. Heins’s presentation. The company began demonstrating the touch-screen phone and operating system in May and also made prototypes available to app developers at the time In recent weeks, photographs of the final version of the phones have made their way to various American and European technology Web sites.
Physically, the Z10 resembles an iPhone 5 with its corners snipped off.
But unlike its competitors, the Z10 lacks a button to take users back to a home page and relies entirely on users’ swiping their fingers across the 4.2-inch screen from different directions to summon features or menus.
While the Z10 lacks a physical keyboard, the main attraction of BlackBerrys for many current users, the company said it had developed software which should alleviate some of the inadequacies of on-screen typing. According to BlackBerry, its software studies users’ common typing mistakes over time and then starts automatically correcting them. It will also build up a list of commonly used words and offer them as suggestions that can be selected with a flick of a finger.
While developing the new operating system, the company took great pains to improve its strained relationship with app developers. The operating system was also designed in a way that allows them to adapt Android apps for BlackBerry 10 by making some relatively minor modifications.
For corporate and government users, BlackBerry 10 server software will allow them to divide employees’ BlackBerry 10 phones into separate work and personal spheres and give I.T. managers complete control over the former.
BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 unveiled, first BB10 smartphones - GSMArena.com news
Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone
BlackBerry Z10 Features And Specifications Round Up | Ubergizmo
Specs
Blackberry Z10
*s9.postimage.org/5ncyaz14v/gsmarena_001.jpg
*s8.postimage.org/a23z9jvr9/blackberry_z10.jpg
4.2” WXGA screen (1,280 x 768, 356ppi pixel density)
Dual-core Krait CPU 1.5GHz
2 GB RAM
8MP main camera, 1080p video
HDMI port
16 GB Internal
microSD card
Bluetooth 4.0
NFC
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