Thursday, January 31, 2013

RIMM: First Peek at a Z10

The company formerly known as Research in Motion (RIMM) was kind enough to give guests at its BlackBerry 10 event in Manhattan this morning units of the new Z10 smartphone to take away and try. I haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet, but I’m looking forward to it. A passerby on the Street, observing me handling the machine, asked if it was the new BlackBerry. Yes, I said. “It looks like the iPhone!” he shouted. Perhaps…

I’ll tell you one thing: the device is not in any way hobbled by hardware power. Unlike Palm‘s ill-fated Pre and Pixi, which had rather sluggish electronics from day one, everything feels swift and smooth on the Z10, at least in my cursory examination. Thank goodness for that!

 

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