There has been a changing of the guard took place in the smartphone world. It’s a long time since smart phones were reserved for hyperactive businessmen who paid the prize for a mobile office and the voluminous manual their PDA on the sale increased ..
Almost all members of the old guard have difficulty with this revolution, but standard bearer BlackBerry has perhaps the most suffered from the rise of iPhones and Androids.
For some people that used a diehard BlackBerry fan, admitted that they were ashamed to take. the characteristic black appliances out of their pocket More and more companies, increasingly under the influence of the BYOD hype, began to allow employees and managers their own smartphone also used during working hours.
And so had the helm, as BlackBerry least did not want to walk away. at the rapidly approaching cliffs With a new captain at the helm (the German Thorsten Heins) and a new company name (BlackBerry) was done away with the past, without alienating.
the remaining millions of BlackBerry fansThe result of that is ommeslag BlackBerry 10, an operating system that in many ways familiar, but still know something new to add to the crowded smartphone market.
Sign Language
One of the biggest frustrations with the old BlackBerry was the archaic menu structure where users had to wade through. Devices such as the Curve and the Bold were packed tricks that productivity increased, but were so well hidden that only the biggest fanatics they got in the fingers.
Therefore a whole new way must be found to navigate.
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Like learning a new language takes the new navigation of BlackBerry 10 a lot of getting used to. Even the most seasoned smartphone testers on our editors could not initially make sense of BlackBerry’s vision for ministry.
This is mainly because fixed values ??of the dominant operating systems, such as the Home button and the home screen, BlackBerry 10 received within a different role. Because the BlackBerry Z10, as you can read our review are separate navigation buttons now out of the question. And the home screen is certainly still present, but has been given a place in the wings.
Sorry for the long introduction, but when first BlackBerry 10 is so different that it quickly evokes memories of the first experience with the Windows 8 start screen.
Everything in this system is actually based on gestures that BlackBerry in a somewhat clumsy introduction occurs when you take the phone in use.
With a swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen gives you BB10 from sleep mode, which you need no key to unlock the phone. Then you get to the “Home screen” rightly essentially a multitask screen where all your running apps in stamp size are displayed.
If you swipe to the left, you arrive in the universal inbox that BlackBerry ‘Hub’ baptized. And wipe your right, you finally end up at the familiar home screen, where all your installed apps to find.
BB10 has a few gestures of this kind. So you get a menu on the screen when you swipe from the top of the screen down. And when you make an inverted L with your thumb, so up and to the right, you can see at a glance your inbox without closing what you were doing at that time the app. That calls the company Peek & Flow.
These are the written instructions, but below you can see in motion picture what it looks like in practice.
Multitasking until you weigh us
There is a simple reason that BlackBerry until recently was extremely popular in this world. Because everything in this phone is aimed at by work and productivity. BlackBerry 10 embroiders effectively build on this theme, once you’ve shaken off this new ‘flow’. Naturalizing the
multitask screen mentioned above is the traffic center of BB10. Whenever you want to go from one app to another sweep you from the bottom edge of the screen up and you come back to this screen, where browser, video game or added to the list of running apps. Usually the stamp versions static views of the app, but in some cases a kind of widgets that you can read without having to open the app.
Only when you press the cross is the app closed. in the corner of the thumbnail version The multitask screen up to eight apps and represents open apps in chronological order. You can not pin apps and if you open a ninth app, it will automatically close the longest running app.
To find out whether this new way works, I moved completely over to BlackBerry 10. And I must say that this plan feels after a week of use is very intuitive.
example, if I open a link from the default Twitter application, the browser comes into view and I read the linked article. When I’m done, I wipe up and open in one smooth motion thumb the Twitter app that I just left.
Quick multitasking might also be possible in Android with the help of a multitaskapp, but this process is already very very well organized in BlackBerry 10. It does feel dated especially Apple’s operating system, a painful conclusion given the crippling blow that the iPhone has caused to BlackBerry.
But it soon became clear that this Flow long not work as well if you hold the device in landscape mode. The Peek-function might not work if you hold the device horizontally. And with apps that only work in portrait mode, you constantly wipe from the wrong edge if you want to close.
an appMoreover, this approach is not as new as you think. It carried to his grave Meego operating system had a similar system and Palm OS, now owned by LG, had a similar system.
Spider in the Web
where BlackBerry fans by far spent the most time, was their inbox. That’s hardly changed in BlackBerry 10. BlackBerry Hub, the central inbox, BlackBerry, according to the modern answer to the proliferation of social networking and email accounts that you absorb time.
fact, the Hub a universal inbox, but one where you can do more than check whether you have new mail. BB10 has support for professional and personal email services (Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo), as well as popular social networks have gained a place in the whole (Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook).
This is, again, nothing we have not seen before. But it’s the way you deal with the Hub that makes the difference.
Messages of all accounts are added as within a universal list, where the different accounts with symbols of each are distinct. Also calls and text messages belonging to this continuous flow, so you really have all your communications together.
In some cases BlackBerry completely beaten by his urge to spend. together all notifications Because if you change time zone or a new update is available for any of your apps, which is also passed in the Hub. That can quite work as you are.
many apps on your phone on your nervesCollect Anger
Not everyone will be happy with that hobby and we must say that combining all these accounts can be overwhelming. sometimes It is not always easy to fish arriving daily on the editorial and personal mail from the barrage of emails so you could go wrong.
an important mail 
Or not. Because if you swipe to the right in the Hub, is a convenient cover forwards. That you bring a specific account in exclusive picture and you can see at a glance which accounts new messages have arrived. BlackBerry uses convenient red stars, which stand out well in the sober black colored Hub.
The Hub is also more than one notification center, because you can write status updates, tweets can publish or answer emails, without ever having to leave the screen. directly from the inbox And integration with services like Facebook and LinkedIn is more than a marketing slogan, because you can communicate without having to open the app. Actually on those networks The Hub accepts, however, only a few Twitter or Facebook account, so that people with multiple accounts which remain lost behind.
For business users, there is direct integration with Exchange calendars, taking appointments for the day come into view as you swipe from the top of the mail received last down.
Also regarding the management of this universal inbox, the Hub has his act together, already hit you here soon entangled in a maze of submenus. To change some of the settings you are sometimes quickly five layers deep and you wish to go back again for a home button that you can help.
from the fireMoreover, you press a button for all more advanced operations, such as deleting multiple messages or refreshing your inbox.
Despite this, 10
BlackBerry users are more guns in the hands than other platforms. The universal search for the Hub works great and you can decide whether BB10 some messages or conversations displays.
Redeeming flashing
We are particularly pleased with the notification system for BlackBerry Hub. You can set per account or a new message sound, vibration or flashing light turn on the unit.
The latter willsignaling BlackBerry fans but avoid too familiar, because the flashing red light on their phone the signal was that they had a new email. Now you can light the alarm goes off to determine in detail the networks, so you only need to unlock your phone. Important messages to Because the home screen also indicates which account a new message arrives, you will not have to look at them too to stay.
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Such a system works well, but BlackBerry had more to do to stand out from the competition itself. Different colored lights for example, individual accounts would be ideal to create even more. Clarity There is already an app in BlackBerry World (as we come to the apps), so it should be.
Sliding keyboard
If you actually turn on the tap, you will quickly off at the next focus of BlackBerry 10: the keyboard. Fans of the brand have been very devoted to their keyboards and picked their noses at virtual variants.
BlackBerry’s previous experiments with keyboards on touchscreen, as with the BlackBerry Storm, were an unmitigated failure and so I was skeptical whether it would work to deliver.
a workable copy off the Canadian manufacturer time
My dark suspicions vanished quickly once I spent more time with the keyboard that BlackBerry for the Z10 had in mind. The touch response is fast and accurate and design and font do much about the physical keyboards we know from older BlackBerrys.
Word Oracle
Since the manufacturer simply known as a specialist, BlackBerry has added innovative word prediction that the number of words per minute should rise in hunting.
Just like the operating system it takes some time to basically get the hang of it after a few weeks and I’m still not convinced. The system works as follows. If you take the sentence: “I want to go to the airport ‘keying, the keyboard will always try to guess what word you want to type as following
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It gives those choices again above the letter you would type. following as So if you ‘I’ entered and the ‘W’, pairing appears above the “I” word “will”, that you can add to your short message to wipe.
by that letter to topDespite claims that the BlackBerry keyboard ever better choices for places after longer use the word prediction works not as good as we had hoped. In short words, the trick quite worthless and BB10 has trouble recognizing that we want to add a message.
past participleslonger words may, however, be invaluable assistant and the autosuggestion does excellent work.
All in all, the keyboard of Blackberry 10 made with craftsmanship and is full of tricks that will sneltypers of watering. However, we are not convinced or if you can type on an Android device which is installed Swype. Much faster I also think that BlackBerry fans will wait for the Q10, the second device with BlackBerry 10, which will be equipped with a physical keyboard.
If you wipe the Hub aside and take a look at the other basic ingredients, you can see that only BlackBerry 10 has just crawled. hatched
Default Apps in BlackBerry 10
As with other mobile platforms you get to BB10 some basic apps gift that should help to make your digital life. easier BlackBerry delivers in this area only half work done, with some apps stark contrast against what the competition has to offer.
BlackBerry Maps
The worst of the standard apps in BlackBerry 10 is the ingrained card service. Not only responded Maps awfully slow, but had also arranged wrong to search for streets and locations. It is true that Blackberry is not the same mistake Apple made to brag about his card catalog, but we expect from a modern smartphone platform has something more to offer than BlackBerry.
If you rely daily on your mobile navigation, its Windows Phone devices from Nokia or Android devices undoubtedly a better choice.
Remember: Organize your memory
A nice extra is the service BB10 Remember, a type of card catalog for storing and grouping of information you do not want to forget. You can in colored folders images, web links and notes together, which comes in handy for work or if you want to go some more organized.
Built-Share feature of BB10 is fairly easy to add to Remember and although there are mobile apps that do this work better, the material is a plus cooperation with the operating system. Moreover Remember works with Outlook tasks, where it creates a separate folder for when you add an Exchange ActiveSync account.
BlackBerry Messenger: Video calling with flair
Cheap BlackBerry devices in the Low Countries but what popular, because the built-in BlackBerry Messenger chat service gave young people a fast way to communicate with each other.
BlackBerry provides the service upgrade and adds video chat to the portfolio. You can start such a video call from the Hub and during our test I was very pleased with the call quality.
BBM also has an option during a video call to proceed to ‘screen sharing’, which means that your interlocutor your screen can display. This is useful if you want to show or to explain a particular action. Example, a presentation on your phone The usefulness of this feature seems limited, especially since you can use as your conversation partner has just the new BBM
Because a major drawback of the new chat client is that you have a BlackBerry 10 device and a BBM account need to be able to use all its features. With the rise of services such as Skype and WhatsApp on mobile devices BBM seems primarily a party for existing BlackBerry fans.
Rappe browser
older web browser on BlackBerry devices was an abomination, and with the arrival of BlackBerry 10 is finally possible to properly browse through the brand new Webkit browser in BB10 has been inserted.
The default browser is a quick scamp who knew attracts excellent scores in SunScript benchmark for JavaScript processing. But that certainly does not make him faster than IE10 or Chrome for Android.
The BlackBerry Browser has arranged trouble loading pages, where you sometimes black areas in the image that will fill half the screen. Only with considerable scrolling back and forth or reloading the page to get.
that waySafety
BlackBerry has to hold when it comes to security and has done a good job in his new operating system. reputation It forces you to say that half the world just can not guess and allows you to encrypt this password which serves to unlock your.
encrypted files, password filescourse there is a service that helps to protect you in case of theft or loss of a device. BlackBerry Protect can detect your device over the web on a map, though it offers little more than the services that we find in other operating systems.
I am also very pleased with the great control you have over what apps can and can not in BB10. If you find an app that has access to too much personal information, you can simply disable it in the settings.
HoweverOne of the main advantages is Blackberry Balance, a system for businesses that separates business from personal apps apps into profiles, where employees can easily switch between. I have not personally seen this system in action, but it seems one of the most flexible and volwasen BYOD systems on the market.
It is true that companies BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 should get to use, what the adoption of this system in the road can sit.
Balance in house
Vermalijde desktop companion
chagrin, and BlackBerry is not alone in the included desktop software that you need to BB10 to communicate with your computer. BlackBerry Link slows your computer has a chaotic interface is preliminary and only suitable to use your device, back up all also shoot the shortage there. The program is in the meantime updated once already and allows wireless synchronization, but that’s the time being in on.
Voice control
Although I managed the integration of BlackBerry’s speech is, is Voice Control miles behind on services such as Apple’s Siri and Google Now. Because there was to be found on my test device, no English support I find it difficult to pass on this part of BlackBerry 10 a final decision. But it is clear that the service needs to grow the impression can make.
Mobile apps: BlackBerry’s Achilles heel
I’m still not decided how important it is to have. huge numbers of apps in your store Google and Apple show off their bulging appstores, while Microsoft and BlackBerry with all the might and try to close the gap. But there is a limit to how many apps you can install and use, with most people stick to a handful of apps that they constantly use
But although numbers may be of minor importance, it is of the utmost importance to have in the house that everyone wants to use. apps BlackBerry is a better start than Windows Phone and may offer 100,000 apps to its customers.
a few months after launch 
But only a few of those tens of thousands do there really matter.
Apps as Amazon Kindle, Angry Birds, Skype and WhatsApp are vital to tie. interested buyers And do not Webex and SAP, two vital apps to attract.
But I’m still waiting for Skype and Instagram find their way to the renamed BlackBerry World. Moreover, the number of Dutch apps virtually nonexistent and BlackBerry has not convinced that this is a couple months will be much different.
meWhat also worries me is the difference in quality between native apps for the BlackBerry platform and category Android clones. In order to BlackBerry 10 to lure developers, the Canadian manufacturer at the time made it possible to run on BlackBerry 10.
Android Apps with a few tricksThis is not only useful for developers, but switchers from Android can by simple conversion loading their favorite apps on their new phone.
However
Coming clones
The difference between Android import clones and apps specifically built for BlackBerry 10 is shocking big. Often menu buttons do not work well and are hardly any adjustments made to run these apps. Fluent I feel that the presence of these apps BlackBerry 10 only cause reputational damage than they deliver real value.
If not careful, a large number of developers will quickly adapt their products and throw in the BlackBerry World. For example, the developers of Instagram and Skype already announced that they will delegate an Android clone to BlackBerry 10 and it’s just wait and see how good those apps really are. On the other hand, it takes time to build a solid appwinkel and it seems that the Canadian company does everything to get
this happen.
Conclusion
effort that BlackBerry has done this with UNIX-based platform is admirable. BlackBerry 10 strives Apple iOS in some ways over and provides a user experience that oiled known and unknown elements coalesces into a solid whole.
But now the question is whether it is enough. too The world in which the Canadian company ever experienced its heyday, no longer exists and in its place has come a climate where a smartphone is part of your image and lifestyle.
And the business world where BlackBerry was once supreme, is not the same. Samsung is determined to be stabbing, the business world in his pocket to begin with Knox, a security solution for large company that is embedded in its Android phones.
Moreover, major players in the smartphone market for years trying to strengthen their software platform and expand to other devices. Apple iCloud has a strong bond with his devices, while Microsoft with its Xbox service has established between its popular game console, mobile devices and new generation PCs.
a linkGoogle will relentlessly continue to bring together its numerous online services, which are seamlessly connected to the unstoppable Android and emerging Chrome OS. A smartphone has become more than a nice join and a fast processor, something Samsung but understands all too well.
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That does not mean that the role of BlackBerry is played entirely. The company has worldwide still enhtousiaste millions of users and they will be delighted to switch to BlackBerry’s new style. It also has a compelling total solution for home and business environments no company has much experience in security company files as Blackberry.
We give the BlackBerry wholeheartedly, but for now it does not have enough convincing arguments with which to convince loosen from Android or iOS. It will need to focus on the battle from day to day and overtaking Windows Phone, the ambitious number 3 of the smartphone market.
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