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learn more hey guys for those of you that don't know me my name is Slick I've
been using Android for about three and a half years now and I've been challenged
to do a Blackberry eyes switched for 30 days so I'm going to try out the Z 10
we'll see how this goes first thing anyone notices about a phone is the physical aspects of the phone so it is
kind of a large phone but that's totally fine for me because I do have large
hands so it's not actually an issue for me um the only thing that I can find
that I don't like about it it has a good weight to it I like phones that weigh a
bit um and I like the back a lot the texture on the back is nice but I don't
actually like that the plugs are on the side that's a preference thing so some
people might like that but if I'm going to put my phone in like the cup holder
of my car or somewhere else where it's sitting in something then being on the
side might be a hindrance because if I put it down like that um the cable could
hit the side of the cup in my car or whatever so I'm not actually a huge fan
of the cables being on the side but it's not really the end of the world uh mic
plug and Power on the top and then you've got volume over here um you can
take off the back right there and the battery is kind
of cool but other than that there's nothing that interesting back here except for your SD
card um I haven't had a ton of experience with the camera right there
I've taken a few pictures I took some inside of a hockey rink threw glass down
to the hockey rink and those looked great but then I took some in my room
that was close closer lit and those didn't look as great but then that was
with no custom settings or anything going on so I'm not too sure about that
the next thing you'll notice about it is I did talk about its size but if you look at its screen which is quite large
you'll likely notice that it looks kind of gross right
now I did just try to clean it off and I do actively try to clean it off um for
anyone that watches the live streams you'll notice that if I ever have my phone out I'm constantly rubbing it on
like the pant leg of my pants or whatever because I do like because I do
like keeping it clean and that's actually a problem with this phone because I cannot get fingerprints or
anything off of it no matter how many times I try um It's actually kind of crazy but
when the screen is on you might be able to see it better because of reflection
um I can't actually see the fingerprints quite as much when the screen's on but
again due to reflection you might be able to when you first turn the screen on
you'll notice notifications here it's actually quite nice because I can see I
have five emails one Facebook notification and two general notifications so it's kind of SE cool so
I can see what's happening if I'm waiting for an email I can actually see it come in without individually going in
and checking my email then they have a come on screen
turn on um they have a nice quick feature to get to your blackberry Hub
which is the integration of all your different social networks email all that kind of stuff which is swiping up and to
the right you'll notice that didn't work I wish that worked from this screen but
you have to swipe this screen away oh I'm already there wait a second there we
go this is what you'd normally get to just I was already on that and then if you go from the bottom and
go to the right it brings up your blackberry Hub I kind of wish it did it
from the home screen but I forgive it because Blackberry Hub is just kind of
fantastic it integrates all of your
social media it integrates all of your emails you can have multiple emails on
it it integrates your Blackberry Messenger text messages everything so I
actually really like that a lot you can see everything in order as it comes in
on the list which is fantastic because
if you're just trying to quickly go through all your social media or text
messages or whatever you can quickly jump over here do all that jump back out
and go away one thing I've noticed with Blackberry so far is efficiency is kind
of their deal which is just absolutely awesome I noticed the forum's down
that's not a good email to get I'll have to jump on that after this video another
thing if you click on the Hub button in the bottom left hand corner I'm going to
cover this up so you guys don't see my personal email um you can see you can go
individually to different sections so notifications BBM text messages email
whatever you want um just going to go back to HUB and then there it's no
longer the list of everything it's the individual list for that um app or
whatever you have so say it's email you go directly to your email and then it's
just your email so if you know you want to go to email you can go individually
to that or if you just want to see everything at once you go right into the Hub I actually really like this and it's
very very fast to get to so again efficiency and getting things done on
time is kind of a big point with this phone as far as the the App Store goes
this is day one and I have not spent that much time in the App Store I've
mainly been using the Social Media stuff and email and all that kind of stuff um
but the first thing I noticed was that there isn't actually a Skype app I've
done a search here you can see there's no Skype app um I don't know that many
people that use Skype a crazy amount on their phones personally I'm sure people
do um but I do a lot because I use it
for interfacing with my moderator team on the Forum so um we have a person
Skype chat so we can all keep in contact with each other very quickly to get things done quickly and I have that push
to my phone so that I can always see what's going on if anything major happens I can check it up so it's
actually kind of a big bummer that they don't have Skype chat
um yeah I had like I said I haven't spent that much time in the App Store so
hopefully other stuff is there um but Skype wasn't so that was a bummer I
don't know how big of a deal this is it's not actually that important but um
you don't have to press the button on the top to activate your phone if you
touch below the screen and slide up the
phone will turn on and you can do your full swipe right from there which is
kind of cool but makes it that if you're cleaning it um like I said earlier the
screen gets very dirty very easily if you're cleaning it and and you go to rub
it and it can detect your finger through the other side again it's not really a big deal but the screen goes like crazy
and you might it will unlock itself and you might click something and stuff starts opening and it goes nuts while
you're trying to clean it so it's not really that big of a deal but it's just
kind of weird when you go to clean your phone and the screen goes absolutely nuts I don't
know again it's only day one so I haven't had a ton of time with this
there's a cat right there sorry for looking over that um but the I've heard
of this before I actually got the phone but there's kind of a bedside mode that
I've heard of and I thought it was kind of interesting I thought it was just kind of a low power thing I didn't know
a ton about it it opens up
Pornhub um no it doesn't just to be
clear that I'm sure you've used it already I have used it but it didn't
open up Pornhub I can guarantee you that that's disappointing so what it actually does
is when instead of swiping up on this screen when you swipe down it brings
down the Deb bedside mode which as you can see is not actually PornHub it's
terrible porn um it's a clock so I don't
know what you're into but you might be into that um it's a clock that doesn't
run for very long optimized for you
wow you can turn
wow you can turn on the alarm and off the alarm quickly and easily by swiping
right here and then if you want to change the time you just click right on the time change it to exactly what you
want go back and you're good to go one thing I noticed is that when you're
sliding things away um very common feature with Blackberry is that if
you're in an app if you want to go away you throw it away that's kind of just
how it works there's no physical buttons there's no major featured on screen
buttons except for like phone search and camera so if you're in say music and you
need to get out it's not a single button that you press anything like that it's a
single swipe throw away uh one thing I noticed about this is unlike say Android
there doesn't seem to be momentum on your flick so you can't just kind of
throw it off oh that actually worked but it doesn't usually do that I usually
have to take it all the way off so I noticed take it off I noticed as I do
this I get kind of the feeling that I'm like I'm done with you get out of here
and it kind of reminds me of like the snobby businessman he's like Blackberry
I'm done with your music get it away from me I have other things to do I'm
busy so I don't know what kind of an accent was that a terrible one that's
what that was and I'm sick so please mind me you're always sick I am always
sick um so again like what the Hub ties
into the professionalism thing you're done with something it gets out of the
way there's no like slowly closing and all that kind of stuff it's you throw it
away it's done it brings you to this screen which is recent applications so
if you only do kind of like four things on your phone you can very easily jump
into say music like I just said throw it away and then jump onto something else
that you do all the time so that's actually pretty cool very efficient
brings up the same thing I was talking about before so if I go to a web page
let's say home of much which is much music is
Apparently one of their default web
pages I didn't even know that existed it's called
YouTube so I'm hoping this will rotate there we go do you notice the lag
time in there this just kind of weird I've had
it a few times where I go to turn it and then by that time I've kind of done it
again CU I'm waiting for it to actually like come on come on like I'm I'm kind
of expecting it to go a lot faster so it's just kind of interesting how it
takes a little while because the phone isn't slow but the rotation is slow
here's a one for contrast here's a HTC One for contrast a Twitchy little bugger
like it's quick it jumps really quickly if you go like this on a one I'm
assuming it just kind of goes nuts yeah
if I did that on this phone it wouldn't actually ever make a
rotation oh oh it's like one step behind
you oh when I'm vertical it's the wrong way so I don't know that's kind of weird
um there is a rotation lock but then
this section right here the like recent app things will save if you had it
rotated so say if I go browser and then rotate it and
then flick it away then go back browser
still rotated it's again not really that
big of an issue but it's just kind of weird it's like no I'm I'm this way now
why are you the other way voice quality I have had I think one phone call with
this um I'll hopefully be having more soon I don't have my personal Sim in
here so it's kind of interesting calling people um but voice quality sounded fine
um like I said I've only used it once so reception was fine for that time I was
using it but I haven't really it was here like it was in the house and we're
in kind of a big area so I wouldn't expect reception to be bad I you think
30 days is going to go 30 days I'm
already like Android deprived so that will be interesting I have everything on
my phone set up exactly how I want it I have everything exactly where I want it
to be so now being on a completely different device is just kind of weird
and the only smartphone technology that I've ever used is Android
so again being away from it is kind of weird um it's outside my comfort zone
but we'll see I do like certain things like the Hub is kind of awesome so I'm
not that worried about like my emails and text messages and stuff but I am
worried about things like having access to Skype um I didn't really look for it
but I didn't see an official Reddit app um I don't like the screen rotation how
fast it is but then usually I just lock my screen rotation anyways so I'm not
super worried about that um about app
support but I think I might have already said that a couple times a couple times
I'm very worried about app support I think it was implied every
time you talked about Skype right that makes sense um the phone seems fine like
the the actual calling features of the phone I'm on a bell Sim that seems fine
I don't think I'm going to have any problems with that I don't know anyone
else who has a Blackberry that I know of so I don't know how much BBM I'm going
to be able to do um but from what I hear it's awesome so I'm probably going to be
missing out more instead of not actually being able to do it
um I had to down download Google talk
but that's totally fine and Google talk integrates with um Hub again so that's
totally awesome I guess I should hold this Hub so you guys can actually see what I'm talking about uh but yeah
Google talk actually integrates with Hub so I had to download from the App Store
it was there it had a really low rating I don't know why I think it had like two
and a half Stars works perfectly not sure what's going on there um it didn't
have that many ratings so that might be part of the the
problem um yeah I think that's about it
so hopefully in a few more days or a week or something I'll have more to
actually talk about as I will have used it more um but yeah Linus is coming over
have a feeling he's going to do something in case those in case you
didn't notice I was operating the camera there which probably made it terrible
yeah but we'll see rate rate Linus's camera skills in the comments tell me if
I should fire slick or not
I can see all the fingerprints there's literally like nothing I can do about
that that's going to look
horrible I don't even want to know what that looks like