Love the iconic BlackBerry design? Check out this Blackberry Q10 Review! With big battery life, a vibrant display, solid camera and an amazing physical keyboard running on the new BlackBerry 10 OS, the BlackBerry Q10 is the keyboard BlackBerry you've been waiting for. Read our BlackBerry Q10 review and find out if it's the BlackBerry for you! It's upgrade time!

The BlackBerry Q10 is the first BlackBerry 10 phone with a physical keyboard. It stays true to the BlackBerry of years past and will attract BlackBerry fans all over who refuse to give up their real, physical keyboard. The Q10 combines the iconic form factor of older BlackBerry phones with a new, sleek design that is powered by the all-new BlackBerry 10 operating system.

The BlackBerry Z10 set the foundation for the BlackBerry software strategy for years to come, and the Q10 builds on it slightly with BlackBerry 10’s first significant update, OS 10.1. This operating system update features a number of enhancements specific to the physical keyboard design, including support for keyboard shortcuts. In addition to many of the legacy keyboard shortcuts being present, BlackBerry has also introduced Instant Action shortcuts to the homescreen experience, which compliment Universal Search results by allowing you to jump deeply into an application. Many of the native apps on the Q10 also take advantage of the new dark theme, which in addition to adding an extra touch of sex appeal to BlackBerry 10 also help maximize the Q10's battery life given its AMOLED display. A number of other updates further refine BlackBerry 10, including HDR mode in the camera and improvements to notifications.

On the enterprise front, 10.1 offers additional IT policies and controls for customers connected to BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This restores much of the utility of legacy BlackBerry handsets to businesses that need to have full control over their employees’ devices. This primarily means disabling features and tracking user activity, which is a requirement of big enterprise and government installations. This is an important milestone for the new BlackBerry 10 OS - it's the feature set the corporate world was waiting for before they could begin upgrading their fleets.

The Q10 will roll out globally, launching first in the UK before the end of April. In the U.S. market, the Q10 is priced to be available from carriers at a suggested price of $249 on contract and be available by the end of May. Keep it locked to CrackBerry for more info as carriers lock in pricing and release dates.

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While the Q10 hardware stays true to BlackBerry’s classic design, the BlackBerry 10 software breaks free from the legacy BlackBerry OS and brings an entirely new look and feel for BlackBerry users.

If you're coming from an older BlackBerry, you'll find BB10 runs amazingly smooth. As a whole package, the BlackBerry Q10 is very clearly geared towards loyal BlackBerry users that have stuck with the device because they live and die by physical keyboards. The Z10 led the way to show the world that BlackBerry could duke it out with other all-touch heavyweights in the smartphone world rather than being an afterthought to the QWERTY experience, as BlackBerry's previous all-touchscreen devices had been. Now that the Z10 has set that foundation, the Q10 is for the rest of us keyboard diehards.The BlackBerry Q10 is going to be hugely popular. With 70+ million existing BlackBerry users loving their physical keyboards, the Q10 will be an easy upgrade as it hits local carriers around the globe. There are literally no alternatives on this front - the competition has adopted wholesale the all-touch form factor, leaving BlackBerry to be the one place to go for folks that need real keys under their thumbs, even if that demand will peter off in the long run. Though it will be easy for legacy BlackBerry users to get comfortable with the Q10’s keyboard, there’s plenty that’s new here that will take some adjustment. The big thing is that the classic navigation keys and trackpad are gone. It will take some retraining of the muscle memory to get used to using gestures instead of clicking keys to get around.


Traditionally, the QWERTY holdouts have been business users that pound out e-mails day-in and day-out that have to have impeccable spelling, but also enough battery power to get through a full, busy day. Between the smaller screen and the biggest battery in a BlackBerry to date, the BlackBerry Q10 promises to perform for the long haul, especially for those that don't have the luxury of sitting down for a mid-day charge. Ultimately, the BlackBerry Q10 is a device ripe with familiarity, but full of modern, fast performance thanks to the new BlackBerry 10 operating system and upgraded internal hardware.

BlackBerry Q10 Features and Specs

The Q10 is sporting a 3.1-inch 720 x 720 display at 330 pixels per inch. For comparison's sake, the Z10 display is 4.2 inches and 1280 x 768, which works out to 355 PPI, while the iPhone 5 is 4 inches and 326 PPI at 1136 x 640. While the display sharpness on the Q10 is right up there with the best of them, you will be taking a bit of a knock in size for the sake of a physical keyboard, especially if you're putting it against massive 5-inch screens you're seeing in the Android world.



The Q10 is riding high above any previous BlackBerry OS devices when it comes to specs however. Packed inside is a dual-core 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and 2 GB of RAM with 16 GB of internal storage. There is an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with auto-focus (yes, no more EDOF) and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera. LTE, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC - they're all here as well. Of course the highlights are the 3.1-inch 720 x 720 SuperAMOLED display and the full QWERTY physical keyboard.One of the big things that sticks out here for us is the size of the Q10 battery. Coming in at 2100 mAh, this guy is far bigger than any battery we’ve seen in a BlackBerry to date. When you figure that the battery on the Bold 9900 is only 1230 mAh and the Z10 battery is 1800 mAh, you know that you'll be getting some amazing battery life on the Q10.


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