The BlackBerry Z10 might be the prom queen of the BB10 launch, but the Q10 and its physical keyboard is what a lot of people are actually waiting for. “Will I still be able to have a BlackBerry like my BlackBerry after this?” Sure, just better. More »
BlackBerry’s rich history of tactile keyboards continues in its Q10, a tiny device with a 3.1-inch Super AMOLED screen and … well, a full keyboard. We’ve already gone hands-on with the device, and you’ll get to do the same come April, but we couldn’t help wondering: how does it stack up against its spiritual forebear, the BlackBerry Bold? We snapped a handful of comparison shots to answer just that question, which you can see for yourself in the gallery below.
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If you’re expecting to see future BlackBerry devices with larger (or smaller) screen sizes, Thorsten Heins has got a bucket of ice water ready to throw over your dreams. At the BlackBerry 10 launch event, he confirmed that the next set of smartphones would stick to the same screen sizes and resolutions that we’ve seen in the Z10 and Q10. The company wants to avoid fragmenting its ecosystem and, as such, will stick to having two hardware strands — one with a 4.2-inch, 1,280 x 768 display and the other with a 3.1-inch, 720 x 720 screen. When questioned about when we’d see follow-ups to both BlackBerry 10 handsets, Heins said that the company was looking at product cycles of between 12 and 15 months, but wouldn’t be drawn on specifics.
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If you like what you’ve seen so far from RIM BlackBerry’s big launch event today, then you might want to know when you can get it? Those in the US might have hoped the rumors weren’t true, but indeed, you will have to wait until March before you can get your hands on BlackBerry 10. Though when it does land, customers of AT&T, Verizon, Sprint (only Q10 confirmed) and T-Mobile (Z10 confirmed) will all be able to get onboard. BlackBerry’s giving its home turf a little bit of a head start with a February 5th release date and Bell, Rogers, Koodo, Telus and Virgin Mobile confirmed as carrying. But — as had already been hinted at — it’s the UK that gets the goods first, with the Z10 and Q10 both available starting tomorrow on all the major carriers. US pricing will depend on each operator, but expect to pay around $200.
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Source: T-Mobile
The BlackBerry keyboard is dead, long live the BlackBerry keyboard. Despite the full throttle touchscreen focus of its new mobile platform, BlackBerry 10, the company formerly known as RIM has not forgotten its most fervent fans’ adoration of those little plastic keys and has thrown them a bone — or rather a handset.
Meet the hybrid BlackBerry Q10 (below right, next to the full-touch Z10), a touchscreen smartphone that also packs in a full physical Qwerty keyboard for those who just can’t bring themselves to stop stroking plastic keys. The lack of an optical nav pad may still cause long-time BlackBerry lovers a spot of angst.
The company showed off the Q10 at the launch of BB10 today. “We know there are a lot of physical keyboard lovers out there,” said CEO Thorsten Heins.
The Qwerty-packing handset resembles the N Series BB10 device which leaked in a promo video last September – with a ‘classic’ BlackBerry shape housing a relatively generously sized touchscreen that’s nonetheless considerably smaller than the Z10 full-touch device that RIM also unboxed today.
Another difference between the Z10 and the Q10 is that the latter necessarily lacks some of the ‘smart keyboard’ software features found on BB10 full-touch devices. The full touchscreen keyboard includes a predictive text feature that positions suggested words above the next letter you’d have to type to spell the word out — so you can quickly swipe up to add the whole word. That smart positioning just isn’t possible with plastic keys getting in the way.
The Z10′s virtual keyboard also customises to its owner in a way that the Q10′s physical Qwerty never can: the central strike points of each key can move by up to half a key to adjust to your particular typing style (with the aim of reducing typos). Again, good luck trying to wear down plastic keys to suit your sausage fingers.
As with the Z10, the Q10′s BB10 software analyses your messaging history to learn more about the language you use — and will apparently incorporate what it learns about your vocab and slang into its next-word suggestions.
Despite RIM’s efforts to oust the old and usher in the new with BB10 it’s not a surprise the company has kept a toehold in the physical keyboard camp. Back in September Heins reaffirmed RIM’s commitment to keys, telling attendees at the BlackBerry Jam developers’ conference that both full touchscreen and physical keyboard BB10 devices would be unboxed. Today he made good on that pledge.
Heins also described the keyboard as one of the main points of focus for RIM in BB10, along with productivity, reliability, security and multi-tasking.
Although the Z10 will be available in the U.K. from tomorrow, in Canada from February 5 and in the U.S. from March – with an estimated retail pricing of $149.99 on a three year contract – there’s no word (yet) on the Q10′s availability or pricing.
BlackBerry’s QWERTY handset for BlackBerry 10 is official. Launched today, BB10 and its accompanying hardware do away with a lot of baggage that has been holding the company back, but the physical QWERTY keyboard is here to stay. This slim, lightweight phone with wonderful clicky keys is its future. More »
BlackBerry (formerly RIM) has just unveiled the BlackBerry 10 device that, let’s face it, many of the faithful really want: the keyboard-equipped Q10. It mates the QWERTY hardware input that BlackBerry fans have known and loved while including a 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Yes, it will have LTE, and there’s already confirmed plans from AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and Canadian providers to carry it — though there’s no firm release date or pricing. Check our hands-on with the Q10 for early impressions.
Update: During a post-event Q&A, Thorsten Heins said that we could likely expect the Q10 to reach the US sometime in April.
Gallery: BlackBerry Q10
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Pentax recently announced that they will be making available their range of Pentax Evangelion Q10 limited edition cameras, where these will retail for approximately $650 after conversion, and will of course, sport the colors and design that were inspired by the Evangelion series. Underneath the hood, it is pretty much the same innards as with a vanilla Pentax Q10 shooter, where you will be able to capture 12.4-megapixel stills with its CMOS sensor, while there is also a Removal DRII image sensor cleaning function thrown into the mix that relies on ultrasonic vibrations.
Other hardware and performance specifications include ISO 100 to 6400 (1/3 EV steps), up to ISO 1600 and a 3-inch LCD display for you to preview whatever you have just snapped on the move. Do move quick if you want to pick up one of these puppies, considering how only 1,500 of these will be manufactured and released worldwide. If you are a serious collector, then you might want to make a beeline for it, after all, limited editions of digital cameras are few and far in between compared to say, a video game console.
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We’ve seen Neon Genesis Evangelion-branded devices for quite awhile now, and as a testament to the garish-hued series’ longevity, Pentax has announced a special edition, show-themed Q10 series of its own. It’ll release a mere 1,500 of the models in Evangelion heroine shades, starting with the Eva-01 model shown above at a price of 59,800 Yen ($660 or so). Besides showing your love for ’90s anime, that sum will get you a 12.4-megapixel, mirrorless interchangeable shooter capable of Full HD video, while filling out the already-bounteous Q10 color choices from the hue-loving outfit. Stateside fans of the show will likely be disappointed though — it’ll only be sold in Japan, starting in April. Check the source to see the other colors.
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Via: Akihabara
Source: Pentax Japan (translated)
If Pentax’s Q10 ILC piqued your interest when we got to play with it back in September, then perhaps the choice of 100 different paint jobs might push you to a purchase. Alongside several new cameras at CES 2013, the camera-maker will start to offer custom ordering for the mirrorless unit, with a choice of colors for both the grip and body. And the options? They include pink, white, black, red, turquoise, gold, green, magenta, orange and brown — and Pentax will be offering them all direct from its Q10 studio site, which you can find at the source.
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Source: Pentax Q10 Studio
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