The new Z10 could save BlackBerry.
It won’t dethrone android or put a major dent in Apple’s iPhone dominance. tho it will make legitimate BlackBerry exploiters happy enough to lay down virtu all in ally cash. They’ve been waiting for a good shot in the fortify for too long, and with its modern operating governing body and rich app platform, this is a very capable device that will exceed their expectations. It’s a phone that’s meant to do much more(prenominal) than just send secure e-mail. For the beleaguered Canadian company that’s catching up to the rest of the smartphone market, that’s the good news. But even with a whole new operating system running on some great hardware, the Z10 will not inspire a grand exodus from the two steer mobile ecosystems.
No matter how much it looks standardized an iPhone 5, as briefly as you pick it up, you know it’s a BlackBerry. The user interface is totally redesigned, but t here(predicate)’s nonentity groundbreaking about it, even if the higher-ups BlackBerry would throw you entrust the opposite is true — since the device was first unveiled, the marketing suits consecrate been eagerly showing off the awesomeness of the new software as they repeatedly mention the fact that 100,000 apps will be avaialble by the time the phone goes on sale in the brook together States this weekend.
Let’s take a look at the UI. The crowning(a) glory of the new BlackBerry is the Hub. A repository for all your incoming messages, the Hub is meant to be a one-stop shop for relations. The entire aim is smartly built to be controlled with one thumb, so you chamberpot tap around while holding the phone in one hand. You can access it with one thumb, too. Swiping up and to the advanced from anywhere in the phone will disseminate this notification supercenter.
I added my Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and e-mail accounts to the Hub, and it did exactly what it should do: place all of my unlike notifications into a single, easy-to-navigate area. “Good job, BlackBerry,” I thought — until I treasured to fine-tune those notifications. It throws everything in there no matter what. stool 50 replies to a Tweet? They all end up in there, burying any other notifications.
With a a few(prenominal) flicks, you can go directly to any account. But, for the Hub to be really a useful catch-all notification center, it needs an account-by-account granular backcloth to cut down on clutter. You can remove accounts from the Hub without removing access to those items in the Hub area, but such an all-or-nothing solution isn’t ideal. This training overload is something truly connected users battle everyday.
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Even more central to the new UI than the Hub is the permeate that displays all of the apps you currently have dependent in a vertically-scrolling, two-column grid. You end up here a lot. If you want to navigate from the Hub to your nucleotide screens where you’ve neatly organise your apps or your folders, you have to swipe past that two-column list of open apps first. It gets tiresome. This is a huge misstep, considering it’s so easy to get into the Hub from anywhere on the phone.
Once you do get past the open apps rogue and arrive at your home screens (the traditional pages modify with tiny app icons any smartphone user would immediately recognize), you can quickly switch between them. Jump to any home page by tapping on the square at the bottom of the screen that corresponds with that page. So, instead of swiping five times to get to your fifth home screen, just tap the fifth little box in the line of boxes at the bottom. It’s quick, intuitive and exactly like the TouchWhiz Android skin on Samsung phones.
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Materials taken from WIRED
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