Berry-phone – After so long awaited by his fans, finally BlackBerry Z10 has been marketed in Indonesia. Using the latest BlackBerry OS version 10, Blackberry Z10 completely change several features in order to regain its popularity. What features are they?.
Design
Dimensions: 130 x 65.6 x 9 mm, 137.5 grams; full touchscreen; plastics material; 3.5 mm audio port, power button / lock; volume rocker, voice command button; hole mic; microUSB and micro HDMI port
BlackBerry gives a really fresh on this new flagship device. When you first see it, will instantly remind us of the Apple iPhone 5, which is a tall and thin shape. With the straight edges and corners are slightly rounded. The difference on this Z10 has a slightly wider dimensions. With this shape makes Z10 easily operated with one hand.
Z10 does not include the navigation keys, physical or capacitive. Because everything is handled with a touch screen that is operated via hand gestures..
Blackberry Z10 only provide power button that also serves as a lock screen, voice control and a button to run the voice command function.
Unlike the iPhone 5 which use aluminum material, Blackberry only uses plastic materials for this flagship product. As a result he has a lighter weight than the iPhone 5. So that she look elegant despite being seen more frail than the iPhone 5.
Display
Capacitive touch screen, 16 million colors, 768 x 1280 pixels, 4.2 inches (~ 355 ppi pixel density), multi-touch. Z10 screens are relatively wide 0.7 inches and density display better than the iPhone 5 (with 355 pixels per inch, while the iPhone 5, which has a density of 326ppi). The interface seems fine, sharp, and the color deeper.
The absence of main buttons (menu, home and back) which is used on the Blackberry version, making the whole navigation between the menu functions through the touch screen. The interesting part that serves to touch not only the area of the screen but the margin area on the top and bottom of the screen.
Operating System and UI
Not just a fresh design, the interface used on the Blackberry OS 10 is also completely new, and different from previous versions of the OS, and therefore even if you are familiar with older Blackberry OS still have to adapt to this new version.
Interface held in Blackberry OS 10 look better and more cool, because all use touch gestures to run.
To unlock the screen even users no longer need to turn on the screen with the power button, since the screen is off, you can sweep the screen from the bottom to the top to enter the menu.
Go into Homescreen page, Blackberry Z10 has a few panels that consists of 3 different types. In the main panel is the app drawer (list applications) are presented in the format of the grid plots. Without additional three-page application available app drawer that the amount would be increased as many new applications are added. The next panel is a panel that presents multi-tasking thumbnail of running applications in the background. This panel only appears when the application is running and is located on the left panel of the first page of the app drawer. And the l
ast panel and is located on the far left is a panel homescreen BlackBerry Hub.
In the Blackberry Z10 least 2 input touch users need to understand the new Z10. The first, to get out of an app and divert it to a panel of multi-tasking, users can simply wipe (swipe) the screen of the margin area below the screen.
And second, to access the settings (options) application that is being used just like pressing the menu button on the OS version, users need only sweep of the margin area on the screen to the bottom.
BlackBerry Hub
BlackBerry Hub is one of the excellent features in blackberry Z10. Much like social feeds on the OS version 7, but with a wider range of communication. He was able to present any communications made from the user’s email, BBM, SMS, social networking accounts such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as phone calls.
To access BlackBerry Hub, users can go to the left panel on the homescreen or can go with a swipe feature of the margin of the screen toward the top and then to the right.
Users can also choose to display only certain communications such as fuel or a specific email account.
BBM
As a feature of excellence, BBM course is considered by BlackBerry. Therefore the appearance this feature was completely overhauled.
After previously adding fuel Voice feature in version 7, is now in the new version of the jump to number 10, BlackBerry BBM Video added features. This feature allows users to video chat via BBM.
Not only that, BBM Video also allows for two users to share the same screen. So communications involving content stored on the phone can be done more conveniently.
Hardware
Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon chipset, Dual-core processor 1.5 GHz Krait, Adreno 225 GPU, RAM: 2GB RAM, Internal Storage: 16GB, external: 64; Battery 1800mAh
As with iOS, BlackBerry OS 10 is claimed to optimize the performance of the hardware capabilities that the phone still can satisfy users. Blackberry is therefore only used dual-core processor Krait on Z10.
And as we all know these two core processor may be a fairly common hardware Android devices.
Sure enough, during the test, the Z10 does not show bad signs like hang or “hourglass” as a frequent user problems the previous series.
Connectivity
Quad band GSM, Tri band HSDPA (850/900/2100); LTE Quad band (800/900/1800/2600), GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA 21 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps; LTE; Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n, dual-band, DLNA, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, LE, NFC, microUSB v2.0; Micro HDMI
To be able to compete with competitors, the BlackBerry also provide connectivity options smua Z10 with high-end class. To connect into the data connection service, BlackBerry supports 4G LTE network, though the network is not yet available in Indonesia.
BlackBerry Z10 also features a micro HDMI slot for connecting to devices such as an HDTV display to enjoy a collection of photos or videos stored on the phone. For wireless connections, DLNA option is also available on this phone. Do not forget also Bluetooth, microUSB are also present new BlackBerry products.
Camera
8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash; Geo-tagging, continuous auto-focus, image stabilization, face detection; video recorder 1080p @ 30fps, video stabilization; Secondary Camera: 2 MP, 720p @ 30fps
Another sector is also experiencing change of camera features. Just look at the interface, almost all parts of the screen serves as a viewfinder changed.
BlackBerry Z10 camera mode displays only the icons that are being used (still camera, video or time shift) in the upper right corner, the icon is the last photo taken to go to the gallery at the bottom left, and virtual button camera menu is represented by a point on the corner of 3 pieces bottom right of the screen.
BlackBerry has also added features time shift on the camera. With this feature when shooting the camera captures some moments when the shutter is pressed so that the user can get the best moment. This mode is best used when shooting a moving object or a group of people who can sometimes be imperfect because one of its members is blinking or making unwanted expression, because the user can also choose the best moments from each face detected by the camera Z10.
Excess
• BlackBerry OS 10 Far different and more user friendly than previous versions
• BlackBerry Hub
• 10 with BBM BBM BBM Voice and Video
• Stable performance
Shortage
• Application at BlackBerry World for the BlackBerry OS version 10 is still minimal
• Material plastic material
Conclusion
With a massive overhaul in several sectors, BlackBerry Definitely want to take his throne back after a long eroded by products such as Android or iOS. Judging from the OS sector Z10 feels great potential for BlackBerry to get back in the competitive smartphone market competition. Unfortunately, the design of the Blackberry is not so concerned about the ingredients are fairly fragile material, when compared to the iPhone 5 with almost the same price already using solid materials.