1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:05,040 this video is brought to you by coolermaster mobile featuring The Jazz 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:09,880 Pro notebook stand check it out at mobile. coolermaster usa.com welcome to 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:13,799 my unboxing and first look at the Blackberry zed1 so I'm going to open 4 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:17,560 this up with saying a big thanks to Bell Mobility here in Canada for providing me 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:21,480 with a Blackberry Zed 10 because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to 6 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:26,840 get my hands on this phone and as a Canadian I am extremely excited about 7 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:31,320 the Z 10 because it is one of those sort of you know you know Canadian company 8 00:00:29,199 --> 00:00:35,480 not formerly Rim now Blackberry it's just kind of their their their last big 9 00:00:33,719 --> 00:00:38,800 sort of kick at the Ken with Blackberry 10 and I'm really really excited to try 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:43,039 it out but the funny thing about trying it out is that I'm not actually going to 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:48,000 be the one trying it out doing our I switched 30-day trial with Blackberry 10 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:51,760 um is actually going to be Slick's responsibility so uh that'll be 13 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:57,160 interesting he's been a hardcore Android User for a long time and I'm I'm just 14 00:00:55,199 --> 00:01:01,280 fascinated to see how this goes so Inside the Box we find not really a 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:05,680 whole lot there's little tiny 16 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:08,479 wallboard very very slim very uh very 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:11,960 stylish very small I mean personally I prefer if they ship a bigger wall wart 18 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:15,479 and it charges faster but as long as it you know charges the phone and charges 19 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:21,560 it adequately then I don't think we're going to have a problem here the USB port is on the side of it just like that 20 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:25,840 all right also included in the Box we've got some 21 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,520 documentation so start here which has 22 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,880 presumably some instructions because Blackberry 10 is all about gestures it's 23 00:01:30,119 --> 00:01:35,600 about getting around with gestures there's no back button there isn't even 24 00:01:34,119 --> 00:01:41,479 a home button there's not a single Hardware button on the phone so for 25 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:45,640 those of you who are used to iOS or used to Android devices where you do have 26 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:51,680 hard buttons it might be a bit of a thing to adapt to now I was one of those 27 00:01:48,119 --> 00:01:53,520 few sort of you know demented people who 28 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:57,520 thought that the Blackberry playbook was awesome at the time and really enjoyed 29 00:01:55,399 --> 00:02:00,360 the gesture-based navigation so maybe when Slick's done with the Z 10 I'll 30 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,759 spend some time with it and see what I think of that in more of 31 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:09,599 a of a smartphone like environment so the other things inside the Box are you 32 00:02:06,759 --> 00:02:13,520 know nice long USB a to mini B cable for charging as well as a pair of headphones 33 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:18,400 although I'm not entirely convinced that anyone actually uses the uh headphon SL 34 00:02:16,599 --> 00:02:21,800 headsets that are included with phones these days but there you go it's got a 35 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:25,680 single button so you can take your calls as well as a clip so you can clip it to 36 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:31,360 things and then what appear to be probably the most uncomfortable earbuds 37 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:33,680 ever um anyway that's not what you paid 38 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:38,319 good money for you paid good money for the zed10 phone so on the top of the 39 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:43,239 phone you're going to find your lock button as well as your headphone and 40 00:02:41,159 --> 00:02:47,319 microphone Port so it's a 3 and 12 mm Jack I've actually powered up the phone 41 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:51,519 just now uh the Z1 has one of the brightest screens available on the 42 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:58,640 market with uh some guys measuring it as high as 700 CD perm squared which is 43 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,599 pretty much meant to be usable in direct sunlight the dis advantage to their the 44 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,519 way that they've implemented their screen brightness functionality is that 45 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:10,159 you actually cannot turn off auto brightness now this is one of the things 46 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:14,519 that bothered me immediately about Windows Phone 8 where some of the 47 00:03:11,879 --> 00:03:20,080 decisions were being made for me for example in Windows Phone 8 it is 48 00:03:16,599 --> 00:03:22,200 impossible to uh Auto to to lock the 49 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:26,720 auto rotate you can't do it it auto rotates no matter what and I'm looking 50 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:28,159 at this going really and then in iOS um 51 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,720 at least when back when I was using it maybe they've changed this now you were 52 00:03:29,799 --> 00:03:34,480 only able to lock phones in portrait you couldn't lock them in landscape I'm like 53 00:03:33,239 --> 00:03:39,640 why are you making these decisions for me why don't you let me make the decision whether I want to trade off 54 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:44,200 battery life or whether I want to trade off um screen brightness so so there you 55 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:48,080 go that's something that sort of doesn't appeal to me about it right off the bat 56 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:51,239 but you know since I'm not the one doing the I switched I won't be the one to 57 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:57,519 have any complaints about it I suppose on the side we find um micro HDMI as 58 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,840 well as a USB port for charging and then 59 00:03:57,519 --> 00:04:03,959 on the bottom we've got what looks like like ah yes the pry spot to take off the 60 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:08,840 back plate so we'll we'll cover that in just a moment and then on the other side 61 00:04:05,959 --> 00:04:11,799 we've got the volume rocker so on the back of the unit there's sort of a 62 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:16,639 chrome finish thing here I'm sure if you're watching this video you've probably seen uh a Blackberry Z 10 at 63 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:21,359 this point but there's the 8 megapixel rear camera as well as the Flash and 64 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:25,520 then on the front there's a 2 megapixel camera that is right about there now 65 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:29,080 I've had people complain oh look at that my screen turned off I've had people 66 00:04:27,199 --> 00:04:32,680 complain about the finish of the back of the phone saying that it feels that it 67 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:38,680 feels cheap but I don't get that impression at all I mean let's be really 68 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,240 clear this is not the HTC1 this is not 69 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:45,199 like a beautiful one of the most beautifully anodized finished phones 70 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,479 I've ever encountered but it's also not 71 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:52,039 red that thing go it's also not a Galaxy S4 where it's like a glossy uh 72 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:56,560 scratchable piece of plastic on the back that actually feels quite flimsy even 73 00:04:54,400 --> 00:05:00,880 compared to the zed10 so let's go ahead and pop the backing off of this one 74 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:04,600 where you can see it's just like it could be a butterfly if butterflies were 75 00:05:03,039 --> 00:05:08,280 made of plastic and stuck to the back of phones whereas the one on the Z 10 which 76 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:11,520 I've already actually you know what that's really not any better is it okay 77 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:16,280 well there you go I like the texture then let me just put it that way I I 78 00:05:13,639 --> 00:05:19,280 find it easier to not drop but the advantage of any of these phones that 79 00:05:17,759 --> 00:05:24,240 have replaceable backs whether it's the S4 S3 um or whether it's the zed10 is 80 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:28,840 that you can replace that back cover with something else if you don't like the stock on So speaking of replacing 81 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:33,240 things if you don't like them there's a removable battery just like Samsung's 82 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:36,120 phones and then you've also got your sim slot right there so they make you remove 83 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:40,160 the battery in order to swap that out that's kind of a smart design and a 84 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:44,600 Micro SD card reader and if there's anything I've missed about the 85 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:49,919 HTC1 in spite of the fact that I went from iOS where Apple does has never 86 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:55,120 believed in expandable storage to Android um going from a 16 gig phone to 87 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:59,199 a 32 gig phone I found on a modern phone when you're shooting a lot of 1080p 88 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:03,319 video with how great the video capture capability ities of these new phones are 89 00:06:01,199 --> 00:06:08,800 you're going to use up the space really fast if you're a content creator at all 90 00:06:06,919 --> 00:06:14,800 so spec-wise you guys probably know this already it's 1280 by uh 768 so you are 91 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:19,440 fully capable of watching HD videos but not full HD that gives it 335 pixels per 92 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:24,479 inch which back when it was released was quite competitive but these days with 93 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:29,919 phones like the HTC1 and the uh and the Galaxy S4 on the market is a little bit 94 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:33,680 different um it's got Bluetooth 4 and C 95 00:06:29,919 --> 00:06:35,800 Dual Band Wi-Fi 4G LTE a 1.5 GHz dual 96 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:41,520 core Snapdragon S4 plus which isn't as fast as what you might find in something 97 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:45,120 like the Droid DNA from HTC or the newer 98 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:47,960 s700 processors in the HTC1 and the 99 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:51,360 Galaxy S4 but it's still plenty fast for most of the things that you're going to 100 00:06:49,319 --> 00:06:55,879 be doing whether it's uh browsing or whatever else it's got 2 gigs of RAM and 101 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:59,720 this is the kind of one of the coolest things I think that I've ever 102 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:03,160 encountered on anything anywhere ever so I haven't actually used the phone yet 103 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:06,280 I've not quite touched the screen yet but check this out so the way that 104 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,560 they've implemented the keyboard which is a very clean layout by the way let 105 00:07:08,599 --> 00:07:13,840 just see seen reports that there's no delay no lag and that seems to be true 106 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,680 for the most part this is something that started to drive me crazy about the 107 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:22,919 iPhone 4 near the end of its usable lifespan for me but oh there's a bit of 108 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:25,000 a lag there yeah you can see that anyway 109 00:07:22,919 --> 00:07:28,160 um is when there's a when there's a delay on the keyboard it just drives me 110 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:32,440 nuts but under the screen there's actually heat sensors so if if you 111 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:38,080 consistently mistype and Mish hit the Z10 will actually learn where you 112 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:42,000 usually hit when you're aiming for a particular key over time and make life 113 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:46,599 easier for you so hopefully slick will talk about that during his impressions 114 00:07:43,599 --> 00:07:48,560 of the phone and uh yeah that that 115 00:07:46,599 --> 00:07:54,080 should be just like absolutely awesome so let's show some of the basic 116 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,319 gestures so let's go back to see it's 117 00:07:54,080 --> 00:08:02,000 funny because I I still don't know how to use it at all so I think it's uh from 118 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:05,240 one side Blackberry Hub so that takes you to the hub you can add accounts a 119 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:11,720 hub is cool because it allows you to bring all of your messaging together whether it's Facebook SMS uh or whatever 120 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:14,759 else and then besides just showing you everything at the same time you can also 121 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:18,759 filter out the things that you don't want to see uh let's just go ahead and 122 00:08:16,919 --> 00:08:23,080 lock the phone so that I can so I can start from scratch here all right so 123 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:26,520 let's do a tour of the gestures that or the main gestures so we are unlocking 124 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:32,200 the phone up here actually here's something uh even when you're in sleep 125 00:08:29,599 --> 00:08:36,839 you can unlock the phone by nope yeah there we go very cool so you don't 126 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:41,399 actually have to press the hard unlock button you can have it just locked and 127 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:44,880 going up from the bottom unlocks it or you can see the lock screen which will 128 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:49,240 give you a preview of any notifications that you have as well as allow you to 129 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:53,160 access your camera without actually unlocking the phone entirely so then we 130 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:57,800 do the same thing in order to do that so multitasking is accessed by scrolling up 131 00:08:55,680 --> 00:09:00,680 from the bottom and from there you can actually see some of the things that I 132 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:04,279 have open open including search settings calendar now this is a funny one the 133 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:08,880 browser is open but you can see it sideways this is a bit of a weird thing 134 00:09:06,959 --> 00:09:13,079 um where if you leave an app sideways and get this okay so you scroll up from 135 00:09:11,079 --> 00:09:16,640 the bottom now and it opens up multi it's in portrait really so you have to 136 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:21,240 take your phone and go like this and then it leaves that app actually in in 137 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:24,200 landscape mode so there's there's some funny things that you know what for 138 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:28,480 those of you watching the video this is an unboxing I am not a Blackberry 10 139 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:31,880 expert by any stretch of the imagination but these are things that are already a 140 00:09:29,959 --> 00:09:36,640 little bit unintuitive for someone who's coming from a few other major smartphone 141 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:40,760 platforms that I'm pretty familiar with now um so anyway so there's that from 142 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:45,160 the lock screen uh down swipe puts it in bedside mode which I personally think is 143 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:48,839 really cool I it basically just turns your phone into a clock and then gives 144 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:52,040 you easy access to alarms it's these kinds of productivity Focus things see 145 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:57,040 there's a little uh clock you can turn your notifications on or off uh there 146 00:09:54,560 --> 00:10:00,240 you go well whatever they were off before now they're apparently I don't 147 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:03,720 know somewhere um and then you can turn your alarm on and off just by doing this 148 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:08,240 which I think is really neat and you get rid of that just by scrolling up and 149 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:11,760 getting rid of it uh the other thing too is when the phone's not unlocked again 150 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:16,880 these are very product right multitasking then we can 151 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:22,120 that see there as an Android user and an iOS user that's unintuitive to me on 152 00:10:20,279 --> 00:10:26,680 both of the previous major platforms that I've used scrolling down from the 153 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:30,480 top lets me access my quick settings and my notifications regardless so there you 154 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:34,120 go we have to to be in the multitasking menu uh so rotation lock Wi-Fi 155 00:10:32,519 --> 00:10:39,760 notifications alarms Bluetooth and settings are all accessible from within 156 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:43,240 here now moving over to your I guess whatever it's called app drawer right is 157 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,320 just scrolling to the right so you can see all your apps at launch they had 158 00:10:44,639 --> 00:10:49,360 70,000 apps I don't know how many they have now but at least they have sort of 159 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:54,480 the critical ones things like Facebook and Twitter which were missing first 160 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:58,360 party apps um when Windows Phone 8 launched at least I think one or two of 161 00:10:56,079 --> 00:11:02,800 them were same thing with YouTube where uh Windows Phone 8 was missing a a 162 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:07,279 native well okay there was a native app written by someone in collaboration with 163 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:12,399 Microsoft but it wasn't a Google app and uh that was that was really that was 164 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:14,120 really missing then um okay swiping oh 165 00:11:12,399 --> 00:11:17,519 yeah so from within any apps let's go back to here so no matter where we are 166 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:22,680 we can go into our multitasking here this is a vastly inferior thing compared 167 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:29,480 to the uh Android experience that I've been having so when you go to here I can 168 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,959 see I don't need such a large preview 169 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:34,560 the browser thing that I had open or whatever else I prefer this approach 170 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:40,160 where I have nine things and I understand that the larger 4.7 in 1080P 171 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,320 screen versus a 4.3 in 720p screen 172 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:46,079 enables that but it's uh considering that they're in the same sort of price 173 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:52,000 bracket I would consider that a much Superior way of doing multitasking but 174 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:53,959 once you're in here you can preview your 175 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:57,440 messages just by holding and then if you gesture from left to right off the 176 00:11:55,399 --> 00:12:02,160 screen you can access the Blackberry Hub which as you can see I did a quick test 177 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:06,440 between me myself and I of the text messaging and then I can also see my 178 00:12:03,839 --> 00:12:11,120 text messages my Blackberry Messenger and the Hub which sort of once 179 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:15,800 you add the account puts everything in there um phone dialing so Blackberry 180 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:18,639 hasn't forgotten that this is a phone so the first thing that you're going to see 181 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:23,040 every time you scroll up from or swipe up from the bottom is going to be phone search and Camera these are sort of the 182 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,199 most critical these are the things I use most often on my phone with the 183 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:33,120 exception of search I really don't use that that much I usually just open a browser but phone is great to have there 184 00:12:30,199 --> 00:12:38,600 you can't dial by number unfortunately so if I put in lus that's not going to 185 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:42,800 work this is a great feature on Android I use it all the time I almost never 186 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:46,560 look at my contact list anymore because I can just dial people by name 187 00:12:44,639 --> 00:12:50,360 outstanding every platform should have it and that is a very very unfortunate 188 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:55,519 thing but apparently searching contacts is quick According to some of the um 189 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:58,639 sort of anecdotal evidence that I've read about but honestly I don't see this 190 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:02,920 being any quicker than what I already had on OS which is not as fast as just 191 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:09,199 dialing it in the new BlackBerry Messenger includes video calls and screen sharing as long as you have 192 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:10,959 enough data for it and of course the 193 00:13:09,199 --> 00:13:15,600 feature that makes Blackberry Blackberry is the security so Blackberry balance 194 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:20,120 unlike Samsung's nox which is there bring your own device to work Initiative 195 00:13:17,279 --> 00:13:22,800 for having a an employer accessible sort of corporate section of the phone when 196 00:13:21,639 --> 00:13:29,320 you bring your own device and then your own personal one and they can't talk to each other Blackberry balance has been 197 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:31,680 around for years um and is very very 198 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:35,000 very well regarded in that in that respect so I think that's pretty much it 199 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:39,240 that covers what you guys probably need to know about the Z 10 that isn't going 200 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:45,519 to be covered by Slick when he goes cold turkey on Android with his S3 I'm taking 201 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:47,800 your S3 what yep no S3 for you that was 202 00:13:45,519 --> 00:13:53,360 not part of the deal I'm hiding it you're going You're Going Z 10 no you're 203 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,519 going Z 10 and thank you for uh watching 204 00:13:53,360 --> 00:14:00,720 this video don't forget to subscribe Planet Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos