BlackBerry Z10 teardown
If you want a smartphone that you can crack open and take a peek inside — and possibly swap the battery out when the old one gets flat — then the BlackBerry Z10 is the handset for you.
If you want a smartphone that you can crack open and take a peek inside — and possibly swap the battery out when the old one gets flat — then the BlackBerry Z10 is the handset for you.
BlackBerry spared no expense when it came to kitting the flagship Z10 out with quality components, but is it a good spec sheet that sells a smartphone? I don't think so.
RIM's new BlackBerry 10 operating system could be just what the company needs to breathe new life into BlackBerry and help it fight off Android and iOS, particularly if it can target disenfranchised enterprise customers.
Carriers are eager to see a challenge to the growing dominance of iOS and Android, but success or failure will, according to one analyst, come down to developers and customers.
Is there room for RIM's BlackBerry operating system in a mobile space dominated by two players? One analyst believes that expectations may have gotten "overly pessimistic."
Sorry for the pessimism, folks, but RIM's hopes that the addition of LTE will bring the PlayBook tablet back from the dead are about as farfetched as the Easter bunny winning the U.S. election this year.
In reality there's hardly any similarity between the two devices.
Not sure if it's a good deal or utter desperation on RIM's part.
RIM to focus on selling PlayBook tablet to BlackBerry users.
Analysts have offered up their estimates for PlayBook sales over the past quarter - what do you think?