I was honored to pair up with Verizon, travel to Chicago, and get trained on their NEW Blackberry Z10 device! As a former Blackberry user it felt like I was being introduced again to former love. My first Blackberry and I had a love/hate relationship. My biggest hang up was every time I had to turn my phone off it took 30 minutes to turn back on for me. Well this was years ago. NOW, Blackberry has a new touch screen smart phone! I was asked to give an honest review so here I am doing that!
What I LOVE about the phone! (I am not going to use the technical terms.)
- The phone runs smoothly! It turns on and off and I don’t have to wait forever.
- BBM is back! Plus, we were told that eventually they want to open up the BBM to anyone. This is Blackberry Messenger and if you love chatting it is great!
- The HOTSPOT! So this comes with every Verizon phone. I have a Jetpack that I use for work, but having it on my phone is awesome! One less thing I have to carry around.
- The Camera feature! You can take a picture (where it actually records a short video). Then you can select the people’s face in the picture and determine their best look. SO if you have ever had to take a picture with a group of kids you can select their faces and get them all looking at the same time! This is so cool!
- The Keyboard! I love the keyboard more than my current phone. It predicts the word I am going to type and I can just select it. Deleting is easy with just swiping backwards on your keyboard with 1, 2, or 3 fingers depending on how many words you want to delete.
- The video maker app! So fun! Take a few videos and pictures of an event. Select them and it automatically makes a video for you with the stills and video!
- It has some great features for the business world too. Since I am using it for personal I haven’t had a chance to play with them yet, but you will want to check it out.
What I don’t like.
- I am an app addict! I like apps for everything. Right now since this phone is so new they are still developing apps for the Blackberry. It does have Facebook, twitter, YouTube, and the main ones. I just like searching for apps every time I enter a store or restaurant to score more discounts. ๐
- Struggling two phones is tough since this phone was provided to me by Verizon it doesn’t have my information in it from my other phone. I can switch everything over after 6 months if I choose to do so.
Disclosure: I am a Verizon Savers Voice ambassador and have been provided with a wireless device and six months of service in exchange for my honest opinions about the product. So I was honest! ๐
Dusty says
BBM is what I loved about my old BlackBerry, so it’s great that it’s back. I think this seems like the ideal phone for businesses!
Heidi says
I agree that BBM is a great tool to have and that businesses would benefit. I also don’t like that there aren’t a lot of apps available.
Deanna says
The camera on this phone is my favorite feature! I love the time shift mode so I can try to get pictures of the kids where they are all looking at the camera for once! I’m really hoping that more apps are added to Blackberry World soon!
Becky says
I agree about the disadvantages, I miss some of my favorite apps and I’m struggling with 2 phones. But you’re right it is extremely fast and the camera is great!
Dannelle says
I finally figured out how to forward my own number to my Z10 so I only have to carry one phone. MUCH easier!