WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:05.040 this video is brought to you by coolermaster mobile featuring The Jazz 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:09.880 Pro notebook stand check it out at mobile. coolermaster usa.com welcome to 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:13.799 my unboxing and first look at the Blackberry zed1 so I'm going to open 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:17.560 this up with saying a big thanks to Bell Mobility here in Canada for providing me 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:21.480 with a Blackberry Zed 10 because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:26.840 get my hands on this phone and as a Canadian I am extremely excited about 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 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:35.480 not formerly Rim now Blackberry it's just kind of their their their last big 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 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 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:48.000 be the one trying it out doing our I switched 30-day trial with Blackberry 10 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:51.760 um is actually going to be Slick's responsibility so uh that'll be 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 00:00:55.199 --> 00:01:01.280 fascinated to see how this goes so Inside the Box we find not really a 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:05.680 whole lot there's little tiny 00:01:02.680 --> 00:01:08.479 wallboard very very slim very uh very 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:11.960 stylish very small I mean personally I prefer if they ship a bigger wall wart 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:15.479 and it charges faster but as long as it you know charges the phone and charges 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 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:25.840 all right also included in the Box we've got some 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:27.520 documentation so start here which has 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:31.880 presumably some instructions because Blackberry 10 is all about gestures it's 00:01:30.119 --> 00:01:35.600 about getting around with gestures there's no back button there isn't even 00:01:34.119 --> 00:01:41.479 a home button there's not a single Hardware button on the phone so for 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 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 00:01:48.119 --> 00:01:53.520 few sort of you know demented people who 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:57.520 thought that the Blackberry playbook was awesome at the time and really enjoyed 00:01:55.399 --> 00:02:00.360 the gesture-based navigation so maybe when Slick's done with the Z 10 I'll 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:04.759 spend some time with it and see what I think of that in more of 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:09.599 a of a smartphone like environment so the other things inside the Box are you 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 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:18.400 although I'm not entirely convinced that anyone actually uses the uh headphon SL 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:21.800 headsets that are included with phones these days but there you go it's got a 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 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:31.360 things and then what appear to be probably the most uncomfortable earbuds 00:02:27.720 --> 00:02:33.680 ever um anyway that's not what you paid 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 00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:43.239 phone you're going to find your lock button as well as your headphone and 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 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:51.519 just now uh the Z1 has one of the brightest screens available on the 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:58.640 market with uh some guys measuring it as high as 700 CD perm squared which is 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:02.599 pretty much meant to be usable in direct sunlight the dis advantage to their the 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:06.519 way that they've implemented their screen brightness functionality is that 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:10.159 you actually cannot turn off auto brightness now this is one of the things 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:14.519 that bothered me immediately about Windows Phone 8 where some of the 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:20.080 decisions were being made for me for example in Windows Phone 8 it is 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:22.200 impossible to uh Auto to to lock the 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 00:03:23.480 --> 00:03:28.159 at this going really and then in iOS um 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 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 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 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:44.200 battery life or whether I want to trade off um screen brightness so so there you 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 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 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:57.519 have any complaints about it I suppose on the side we find um micro HDMI as 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.840 well as a USB port for charging and then 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 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 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 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 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:21.359 this point but there's the 8 megapixel rear camera as well as the Flash and 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:25.520 then on the front there's a 2 megapixel camera that is right about there now 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 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:32.680 complain about the finish of the back of the phone saying that it feels that it 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 00:04:35.320 --> 00:04:40.240 clear this is not the HTC1 this is not 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:45.199 like a beautiful one of the most beautifully anodized finished phones 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:47.479 I've ever encountered but it's also not 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 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:56.560 scratchable piece of plastic on the back that actually feels quite flimsy even 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 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:04.600 where you can see it's just like it could be a butterfly if butterflies were 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 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:11.520 I've already actually you know what that's really not any better is it okay 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 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:19.280 find it easier to not drop but the advantage of any of these phones that 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 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 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:33.240 things if you don't like them there's a removable battery just like Samsung's 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 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 00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:44.600 Micro SD card reader and if there's anything I've missed about the 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:49.919 HTC1 in spite of the fact that I went from iOS where Apple does has never 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:55.120 believed in expandable storage to Android um going from a 16 gig phone to 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 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:03.319 video with how great the video capture capability ities of these new phones are 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 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 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:19.440 fully capable of watching HD videos but not full HD that gives it 335 pixels per 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:24.479 inch which back when it was released was quite competitive but these days with 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 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:33.680 different um it's got Bluetooth 4 and C 00:06:29.919 --> 00:06:35.800 Dual Band Wi-Fi 4G LTE a 1.5 GHz dual 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:41.520 core Snapdragon S4 plus which isn't as fast as what you might find in something 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:45.120 like the Droid DNA from HTC or the newer 00:06:41.520 --> 00:06:47.960 s700 processors in the HTC1 and the 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 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 00:06:54.080 --> 00:06:59.720 this is the kind of one of the coolest things I think that I've ever 00:06:57.440 --> 00:07:03.160 encountered on anything anywhere ever so I haven't actually used the phone yet 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:06.280 I've not quite touched the screen yet but check this out so the way that 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:10.560 they've implemented the keyboard which is a very clean layout by the way let 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 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:17.680 for the most part this is something that started to drive me crazy about the 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 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:25.000 a lag there yeah you can see that anyway 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 00:07:26.520 --> 00:07:32.440 nuts but under the screen there's actually heat sensors so if if you 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:38.080 consistently mistype and Mish hit the Z10 will actually learn where you 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:42.000 usually hit when you're aiming for a particular key over time and make life 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:46.599 easier for you so hopefully slick will talk about that during his impressions 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:48.560 of the phone and uh yeah that that 00:07:46.599 --> 00:07:54.080 should be just like absolutely awesome so let's show some of the basic 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:56.319 gestures so let's go back to see it's 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 00:07:59.840 --> 00:08:05.240 one side Blackberry Hub so that takes you to the hub you can add accounts a 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 00:08:09.400 --> 00:08:14.759 else and then besides just showing you everything at the same time you can also 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 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 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 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:32.200 the phone up here actually here's something uh even when you're in sleep 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 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:41.399 actually have to press the hard unlock button you can have it just locked and 00:08:38.800 --> 00:08:44.880 going up from the bottom unlocks it or you can see the lock screen which will 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:49.240 give you a preview of any notifications that you have as well as allow you to 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:53.160 access your camera without actually unlocking the phone entirely so then we 00:08:51.560 --> 00:08:57.800 do the same thing in order to do that so multitasking is accessed by scrolling up 00:08:55.680 --> 00:09:00.680 from the bottom and from there you can actually see some of the things that I 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:04.279 have open open including search settings calendar now this is a funny one the 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 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 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 00:09:14.760 --> 00:09:21.240 take your phone and go like this and then it leaves that app actually in in 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:24.200 landscape mode so there's there's some funny things that you know what for 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:28.480 those of you watching the video this is an unboxing I am not a Blackberry 10 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:31.880 expert by any stretch of the imagination but these are things that are already a 00:09:29.959 --> 00:09:36.640 little bit unintuitive for someone who's coming from a few other major smartphone 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:40.760 platforms that I'm pretty familiar with now um so anyway so there's that from 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:45.160 the lock screen uh down swipe puts it in bedside mode which I personally think is 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:48.839 really cool I it basically just turns your phone into a clock and then gives 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:52.040 you easy access to alarms it's these kinds of productivity Focus things see 00:09:50.680 --> 00:09:57.040 there's a little uh clock you can turn your notifications on or off uh there 00:09:54.560 --> 00:10:00.240 you go well whatever they were off before now they're apparently I don't 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 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 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 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:16.880 these are very product right multitasking then we can 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 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:26.680 both of the previous major platforms that I've used scrolling down from the 00:10:23.880 --> 00:10:30.480 top lets me access my quick settings and my notifications regardless so there you 00:10:28.760 --> 00:10:34.120 go we have to to be in the multitasking menu uh so rotation lock Wi-Fi 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:39.760 notifications alarms Bluetooth and settings are all accessible from within 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:43.240 here now moving over to your I guess whatever it's called app drawer right is 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:46.320 just scrolling to the right so you can see all your apps at launch they had 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 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:54.480 the critical ones things like Facebook and Twitter which were missing first 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:58.360 party apps um when Windows Phone 8 launched at least I think one or two of 00:10:56.079 --> 00:11:02.800 them were same thing with YouTube where uh Windows Phone 8 was missing a a 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:07.279 native well okay there was a native app written by someone in collaboration with 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 00:11:08.680 --> 00:11:14.120 really missing then um okay swiping oh 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 00:11:16.040 --> 00:11:22.680 we can go into our multitasking here this is a vastly inferior thing compared 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 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.959 see I don't need such a large preview 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:34.560 the browser thing that I had open or whatever else I prefer this approach 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:40.160 where I have nine things and I understand that the larger 4.7 in 1080P 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:42.320 screen versus a 4.3 in 720p screen 00:11:40.160 --> 00:11:46.079 enables that but it's uh considering that they're in the same sort of price 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:52.000 bracket I would consider that a much Superior way of doing multitasking but 00:11:48.760 --> 00:11:53.959 once you're in here you can preview your 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:57.440 messages just by holding and then if you gesture from left to right off the 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 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:06.440 between me myself and I of the text messaging and then I can also see my 00:12:03.839 --> 00:12:11.120 text messages my Blackberry Messenger and the Hub which sort of once 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:15.800 you add the account puts everything in there um phone dialing so Blackberry 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 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 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:26.199 most critical these are the things I use most often on my phone with the 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 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 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 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:46.560 look at my contact list anymore because I can just dial people by name 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:50.360 outstanding every platform should have it and that is a very very unfortunate 00:12:48.920 --> 00:12:55.519 thing but apparently searching contacts is quick According to some of the um 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:58.639 sort of anecdotal evidence that I've read about but honestly I don't see this 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 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 00:13:05.560 --> 00:13:10.959 enough data for it and of course the 00:13:09.199 --> 00:13:15.600 feature that makes Blackberry Blackberry is the security so Blackberry balance 00:13:12.920 --> 00:13:20.120 unlike Samsung's nox which is there bring your own device to work Initiative 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:22.800 for having a an employer accessible sort of corporate section of the phone when 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 00:13:25.920 --> 00:13:31.680 around for years um and is very very 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:35.000 very well regarded in that in that respect so I think that's pretty much it 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 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 00:13:41.560 --> 00:13:47.800 your S3 what yep no S3 for you that was 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 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.519 going Z 10 and thank you for uh watching 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