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The BlackBerry Q5 has a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard, the best of both worlds or old-fashioned? This traditional appearance, and the BlackBerry 10 operating system, trying to get between the popular iPhones and Galaxy’s. Q5 a place on the market Is that successful?
- Few apps
- Moderate cameras
- QWERTY keyboard
- Business look
- BlackBerry Hub
BlackBerry Q5
Price € 334, –
OS BlackBerry 10
Display 3.1 inches (720 x 720 pixels)
Processor Dualcore (1.2GHz)
Memory 2GB RAM
Storage 8 GB (expandable with microSD)
Battery 2180mAh
Camera for
2MP Back Camera 5 megapixel
Dimensions 120 x 66 x 11 millimeters
Weight 120 grams
BlackBerry Q5 It is built much like its larger and more expensive sibling, the Q10 (review). Because of this iconic look, it becomes quickly recognized. The only major difference with the older variations is the absence of the well-known trackball. With the presence of a touch screen, this part namely superfluous. In my view a progress, because everyone knows someone with this part broke.
The touchscreen of the Q5
Especially in the beginning it took a while before I had the 3.1-inch touchscreen BlackBerry Q5 mastered. There must be a lot of left, right, up and swept down to reach.
the various components 
the first half hour, I went looking for wild therefore the home screen. After all, I was already my favorite apps give a spot on this page. To my great surprise, I found out that it is not a traditional home screen is present in the BlackBerry 10 operating system. You can scroll between all your apps, your open applications and the BlackBerry Hub.
BlackBerry Hub
After processing, this disappointment I proceeded to install the apps. After the first necessity of life (WhatsApp course), the mailboxes were on the turn. The installation went smoothly, only I had no idea where I had them installed.
It is true that the new generation of BlackBerry smartphones not separate mailbox icons available, but collects all messages in the Hub. You can choose a complete overview of all incoming messages, but also a happy medium and separate mailbox. This applies to your email, social media, WhatsApp and BlackBerry Messenger. Getting used to, but it gives a lot of rest. Because you do not have to go to answer all messages to the appropriate application can from one location.
Apps on BlackBerry 10
installing my favorite apps quickly stopped when I found out that the offer is in the BlackBerry World (BlackBerry’s app store) is very limited. Although I was warned, it struck me very disappointing. In addition, you should almost always pay for the better quality apps.
Personally, I especially missed the fun camera apps I’m used to the average Android or iOS phone. The photo editing apps are minimal and a reworking is unfortunately often required by the moderate 5-megapixel camera.
BlackBerry get off consumer
After the failed launches of the Z10 and Q10, BlackBerry has recently announced to attract the consumer. withdrew So that means this Q5 is one of the latest BlackBerry phones is that we will see are. In stores In the second quarter of this year the company suffered a loss of nearly $ 1 billion. BlackBerry sold only 3.7 million phones.
Read here where it went wrong with BlackBerry
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Conclusion
In my view, a BlackBerry smartphone is still the most suitable for the businessmen among us. As the QWERTY keyboard makes typing fast and accurately as possible, to just a little the last things to settle, and the design of the Q5 is simple and sleek. Thanks to the Hub can also easily respond from different apps on the latest posts, and it offers a nice overview. However, if you are more graphic and set a high value on apps, I can not call the BlackBerry Q5 as recommended. The device feels somewhat cheap thereby also through its plastic casing, but you do not pay it the prize for.
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