On several days during my test period, I found that the device could not make it through an entire workday without requiring a recharge or battery swap.
In most apps this reveals settings for the application, but outside of apps, it brings up a system settings tray that looks a whole lot like Android's window shade notification area.
The Facebook app and USA Today apps utilize a drawer system that mirrors Android's Holo app guidelines, so instead of tapping the back button, you're supposed to swipe or hit a drawer icon.
The application drawer functions almost identically to iOS', allowing you to slide icons around and drop them into folders as the system automatically rearranges your grid.
Despite some points of confusion, once you get the hang of what the phone is going to do (and specific apps), you do get into a kind of flow.
You cannot get to the settings menu for the phone within apps, however; you must first back out to the homescreen or another neutral system area.
This is not some daring departure, a flash of color and playfulness like the latest crop of Windows Phone devices from Nokia and HTC.
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Deleting messages also demands that you access a contextual menu, and there's no way to move from one message to another without leaving the message you're in and tapping on a new message from your list.
It allows you to snap and then choose a frame from a series of shots after (and supposedly before, but not really) the frame you wanted.
Furthermore, the camera detects faces, allowing you to zero in on particular expressions for a shot and then select those frames for your final product.
Since there are no physical navigation buttons on the phone and no persistent onscreen navigation, gestures are used to move through the software.
You can keep a close connection with your relatives with it, including sending messages with voice note, photos and video and making a voice call free of charge.
Maybe folks at Research In Motion don't use Twitter that much, but it's supposed to be a realtime communication tool, not another version of email.
Not only can you not control which apps remain open or where they're located, you also don't have a consistent sense of where to find certain pieces of information.
The company's past experience with touchscreen keyboards has bordered on disastrous (hello, Storm), and as the maker of the finest physical QWERTY keyboards for smartphones, the stakes are high.
The device has a fat 2GB of RAM alongside 16GB of internal storage (that can be expanded, of course, all the way up to 48GB with the use of a 32GB microSD card).
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Remember offers the ability to sync with your Evernote account natively, providing access to your notes (and the ability to create new ones) right inside the app.
Google's efforts, and it probably needs to be said that the actual experience of using the app is not even in the same ballpark as the superb iOS or Android versions of Google Maps.
After a couple of days with the device, I found my frustration was significantly reduced, and I was actually enjoying some of the workflows of the device.
It's well made (in Mexico by the way, and some will be made in Canada), feels solid in your hand, and is inoffensive enough in its design that it won't really shock anyone.
The display on the Z10 is a handsome 1280 x 768, 356 PPI LCD screen, and I found its color reproduction, clarity, and touch response to be among the best I've used.
Zipping around from one app to another, jumping into and out of messages, and managing content on the device worked as expected with few hiccups.
Like many new phone releases these days, the big story isn't really about the hardware; much of what's released is a variation on the latest chipsets and screens, and that's no different in the case of the Z10.
The sound was loud and clear with no distortion, and made talking on the phone (something I generally try to avoid) pleasant when it happened.
HTML formatting it forces messages into can be a pain (it can be changed, but only through a hidden formatting menu which lives beneath your keyboard), and its multiple message management leaves much to be desired.
The most basic way to think about the Hub is as a unified inbox, except this inbox encompasses nearly every type of notification or message you will receive on the phone.
Is there a way by which one can copy all the system sounds (touch sounds) and notification sounds (really like a couple of them) and use them elsewhere.
The backside cam produced decent if somewhat washed out looking shots, and focusing could sometimes be a problem (particularly in burst mode or with macro shots).
If I took the phone off of the charger around eight or nine in the morning, by six or seven at night the phone was completely dead.
But I think there are better phones on the market, and I don't yet see a compelling reason for most customers to choose this phone over those better ones.
The unified inbox is a great idea, but having to deal with both your actual inbox and your notifications on the same level creates complications that I think could be mitigated.
When searching for businesses, the Maps app was abysmal at figuring out what I wanted; I searched for a restaurant in my neighborhood called Dumont, and it showed me a map of Dumont, New Jersey.
