Blackberry Z10
BBM
Almost synonymous with BlackBerry, BlackBerry Messenger(BBM) is a huge reason why people buy BlackBerry. The unrivaled reliability, integration, data conservation, features, security and ubiquity are the primary reasons for its success. On BlackBerry 10, BBM has been completely revamped to follow the BlackBerry 10 UI.
USER INTERFACE
The BlackBerry 10 user interface is centered on three main views: the “Hub”, multi-tasking pane, and the app grid.
The Hub is the messaging and communication center for every type of notification. Whether its phone calls, emails, twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, BBM, texts, appointments, tasks, it’s all there. The Hub itself is an aggregation of all these types of media into a single list
The Hub is the messaging and communication center for every type of notification. Whether its phone calls, emails, twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, BBM, texts, appointments, tasks, it’s all there. The Hub itself is an aggregation of all these types of media into a single list
CALENDER
The native BlackBerry 10 calendar has a similar look to the calendar app on the PlayBook. You have your typical Day, Week, and Month views. In the Week and Day views, you can pinch to zoom to adjust how much of the day is in view. The Month view has a neat feature that shows larger numbers for the days that have the most amount of appointments and events.
The settings menu allows your personalize your calendar just the way it suits you.
MUSIC
For music, the Z10 has a dedicated music app that can play songs, organize them into playlists. Par for the course for any music app. Because of the DLNA support, you can now play them wirelessly to another device with DLNA support. You can also share them via the share menu in a whole bunch of ways. The songs do take a second to play, which is a little slower than I had expected. This could be due to the read speed of the memory card however.
You can go back to the “Now Playing” screen by clicking the icon on the top right of the screen. Through the general settings menu, you can toggle to skip songs by holding down the volume up or down keys.
CAMERA
The BlackBerry 10 camera is one of the main selling features of the Z10.
There are three modes that the camera runs in. the first is your typical “Single shot” mode.
The second the “Time Shift” camera mode is a feature that BlackBerry has been showing off for months prior to the launch of BlackBerry 10. Using patented technology from Scalado (now owned by Nokia), the feature allows you to adjust your photo and the faces it contains independently in time.
MAPS
The native Blackberry 10 maps apps, on paper is a combination of BlackBerry’s previous maps app and their BlackBerry Traffic app. The panning and zooming about the map is usually fast and fluid. The GPS kicked in right away to instantly find my location within a few meters. There are two main tabs at the bottom of the screen: “Maps” and “My Places”. The “Maps” tab obviously displays the maps. The “My Places” tab is what previous BlackBerry users would recognize as “BlackBerry Traffic”. Simply put, it’s just a list of favourite locations that you can navigate too. The app also reads the addresses of you contacts so you can navigate to them if their address exists on the phone. What’s different this time around is the fact that you have visual turn-by-turn navigation instead of just a voice telling you when to turn.
GAMES
With the acquisition of Scoreloop a while ago, BlackBerry has made it clear it wants to take gaming seriously. The games app on BlackBerry 10 is a social gaming network like Xbox live and Game Center on iOS. Games is a cloud-based service, allowing you to save precious game progress, scores, and unlock achievements. You can add friends from your timeline, check their achievements
FILE MANAGER
The native manager is the type of application you really don’t want to use unless you absolutely have to. On a mobile device, it is typically a pain. On BlackBerry 10, you can open, copy, move, rename, zip, share and check the properties of any file within the file manager. It is much, much better than the garbage version on the PlayBook Tablet OS.
The functions within the File Manager are easy to use and cover most of what you would need in any file manager
PICTURES
The pictures app is organized into three sections: “Recent”, “Camera” and “Albums”. The first two are self-explanatory, and the last one simply groups your pictures by source. To edit a photo you’re looking at, simply press the pencil icon at the bottom and you’re brought into the picture editor.
The picture editor allows you to enhance and apply filters a picture that you select. There are the usual things to adjust such as saturation, contrast, brightness and host of others. The effects can be either selected or literally dragged over the photo to help you see the difference. Pictures can also be cropped, rotated as well. The app is fun to use and works great
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