Z10 UK Sim Free Smartphone - Black

There are many other more competent reviews which will go into more tech and app references than I will here. I bought the Z10 because I needed a bigger screen, the reviews were promising and the price point very attractive. After 1 week of using the phone, I absolutely love the simple things. The casing is well built and square but yet it feels so comfortable in the hand. There are so many iPhones and Samsungs out there on their second or third screen because they easily slip out of your grip. They are designed to be difficult to hold with their polished surfaces and smooth metal edges. Something costing £500 that is difficult to hold, go figure! I just did a long haul flight so bought the battery box and spare battery bundled together for under £23. Not only did it keep the phone topped up but also topped up my Sony noise cancelling headphones from the built-in mini usb umbilical chord. A bit of turbulence later and I see tablets and Samsung Galaxy phones flying off the tray tables while my Blackberry Z10 stays put. The back actually grips onto surfaces, so if you happen to put it up on the dash of your car, it's not likely to fly out the window on the first bend. Simple things. Yes you can buy a skin for a Galaxy or iPhone but then you can't holster it. The Z10 leather holster is ideal to protect your phone from all your other stuff but the thing I like the most is the little peek function. You just need to slip your Z10 the slightest way out of the holster and it wakes up to display the time of day, a little more and you get some notification icons. You can also set the phone to answer and hang up calls using the dedicated holster case. Simple things. I'm not making this up, this phone actually interacts with it's accessories, it recognises it's holster and responds to it. It can be charged at the same time as it's spare battery, no need to wake up during the night to switch batteries on the charger. And it can be boosted from the spare battery box if you have no alternative power source available. BTW the battery box is tiny, very compact and lightweight yet ingeniously simple. I'm glad the boffins at BlackBerry are thinking about us old timers and making phones that are easy to use and easy to navigate or change settings on. The hub is just so simple it's crazy. See everything together or filter out the Facebook and Twitter or Email, you choose. It's simple. My final accolade comes from my 22yo daughter who has just installed Apple iOS7. She hates her iPhone now and has been messing with my Z10. Now she is asking the question, why have complicated when you can have the same performance kept simple? Available now below £300 unlocked and sim free. What are you waiting for?

Right, for those who love to make a `research' into their phones, I feel really sorry for you. I guess I haven't done my research on Z10 as I expected the phone to work without making a research! Issues: when I open, for the first time the BlackBerry app store or what ever it's called (accurate on 18 June 2013) the first message I saw was: "Skype is coming soon to Blackberry" I was horrified! Apparently, different phones on the Blackberry OS have different apps, so, e.g., if there is the Skype app for Blackberry Bold, it doesn't mean that there is the same app for BlackBerry Z10. That wasn't the end, some `native' apps, e.g., Box was switching continuously between web browser and app itself to fill the gaps in software. The lack of apps is also very disappointing! If you compare iPhone's Facebook app to the one on Z10 you will be horrified, as I was! The interface of Z10's Facebook app is so basic, that reminds me of its first version on iPhone or Android, it is so limited! I am returning my phone, I have a life and I don't want to waste my time on `researching' how to make my phone work! Good things about BlackBerry - the phone interface looks good and more functional than iPhone, however, with new iOS 7 this autumn the advantages will be on the iOS side.

I really like this phone. It's my first BlackBerry, I was fed up with Android, and this phone proved to be really good. I like the Operating System, and the fact you can install Android apps too, it's a double win. Pros: great camera quality, good size 4.2'' screen (ideal for me, I don't like the 5'' phones, I finds them uncomfortable), good choice of apps (BB apps have a small footprint too compared to Android apps). Easy to use, good keyboard, good browser... Cons: Data Services and Wifi have a 2-step to turn on and off, as opposed to Android system able switch on-off in 1 touch. Battery is poor (it does not last a day), compared to the Sony Xperia I had before, which had a much longer battery life. I don't know if i can purchase another battery, but this is quite annoying.

I held-on to my Blackberry Torch 9810 (An Epic Phone, by the way.. If only Blackberry made an OS 10 version...sigh!) for as long as I could. I was hoping to be impressed by the "Classic" or "Passport" phones, but I was underwhelmed by their form. With a heavy heart I started looking through countless product reviews for smart-phones around Christmas-time 2014. With an aversion to the Phablet-Form trend, I homed in on the "Mini" versions of the Market leaders. Faced with a short-list of the Samsung S5 Mini, (Samsung S4 Mini, due to size), and Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, I elected the latter to be my new phone. As a phone, The Xperia Z3 Compact is an outstanding piece of kit, once you`ve managed to rid all of the Sony Software baggage that it comes with. My problem with it is a major one: The Operating System ANDROID..... AAARRRHH!!! I can only liken ANDROID to a nosey-neighbour who peeks through your windows, sifts through your garbage bins, and walks into your house un-announced whenever they feel like it. Although, you put up with them because they let you drive their Flashy-Sports-Car whenever you want to! Out of frustration, about a month ago, I started checking-up with the news forums about any forthcoming Blackberry phone releases, but alas found nothing pending. By chance I read a survey listing all of the Blackberry OS10 Phones in order of best-buys.The Z10 came out tops! Taking a punt, I obtained a Z10 for £168, here on Amazon. I have only had it for a week, but am completely happy with its form and functionality. My previous Xperia experience had convinced me that a physical keyboard was not essential. The virtual keyboard on the Z10 is amazing. The message Hub is a brilliant idea. The Z10 is pretty much the same size as my previous Sony Z3 Compact, so can enjoy video full-screen rendering in a similar way, and still fit comfortably into my pocket and is easy to use one-handed. The battery life on the Z10 is no match for the SonyZ3 Compact, but is however replaceable. My spare Battery & Charger arrived today, so I have now overcome that disappointment. Very Cheaply! £9.99 The amount of APPS available on Blackberry is an often used as a criticism. Granted, it has less APPS available. However, their permission requests are exactly that, in my experience. With Android, I always feel that Permissions are "Demanded" and over-extensive, for that matter. ANDROID phones seem to need APPS, because they are pretending to be a computer. My BLACKBERRY seems to BE a Computer that is able to make phone calls. For my use, at least, I get-by perfectly well using BOOKMARKS in place of APPS. Perhaps this review is a little more about how I feel about the product, rather than reporting on how much it can "Bench Press", but Hey! I love this phone to bits. It makes me feel safe and not "overlooked". I feel like I`m standing-up for that Bullied-Kid at school, a little bit. Wow. I am really glad that I got to know this kid. If you like mainstream chart music, then go get yourself an Android/I-Phone. My favourite band; SLEAFORD MODS.... I own a Blackberry.... Now F*** OFF !!! ;-)

I've been using smartphones for more than 10 years now (starting with the Sony Ericsson P800, way back). In the mean time I've had many different smartphones and the last few I had were Android ones. While Android is a nice platform, my Android phones started to annoy me more and more recently. Specifically, the fact that my phone wasn't necessarily slow, the speed was generally fine, but it was unresponsive at times when you really needed it. For example, my Android phone often wouldn't respond when I was trying to pick up when someone called. Or it wouldn't respond when I clicked the camera button when taking a picture... Some of the real core features that I wanted from my Android phone simply didn't deliver - and that with a quad-core device! So I decided to try the Z10. In the past I was always a BB-sceptic, didn't really like their old phones and I certainly don't like push email ;) However I heard good stories about the Z10, especially since it was based on BB's recently acquired QNX real-time operating system. Well I can say that I'm really pleased with my Z10. The experience is *very* smooth. When you click the camera button, there is hardly any lag for making a photo. Especially, when you select 'action' as the mode photos are instant. Also like the fact that the camera has built-in burst most and 'best pic' selection... So the camera is great, and I fine 8MP enough... There aren't really that many BB apps that I use on the Blackberry Appmarket, which is certainly a bit limited. However the good news is that you can run most Android apps on this device too! Currently you have to convert them using a tool (either use a conversion site, or download the toolkit and DIY), but I have heard that in the very near future the Z10 will get an updated OS where you can install Android apps without even converting them yourself. I've had a lot of success with converting Android apps, e.g. Google Maps works, my VOIP client works, and even ScummVM works! On the other hand, stock apps are really good! I like the music player, browser is excellent, calendar integration with google calendar works great too. And of course the basic functionality: the phone works fine. Call quality is great. Additionally, if you're texting a lot, the BB comes with a good keyboard that autocorrects typos for you, kind of similar to the android swiftkey keyboard... All in all - a breath of fresh air, would recommend to everyone!

Fed up with massive security gaps, buggyness and lack of control of Android App permissions? Not sure about Blackberry as they might be going down the pan? Well don't hesitate, take a chance on a Z10 while you can. If you can find one, they now retail for less than £200 new boxed in the UK. Price isn't everything, and I could have gone for any of the usual top of the range power user smartphone suspects - iPhone 5s, Samsung Galaxy S5, HTC One M8. The key features of the the Z10 for me are build, security, screen image quality, reliable high performance and keyboard input. It scores highly in all these areas. It handles all the functions I need it to, since the first software update it has been totally reliable. Battery life is just fair - but no worse that my HTC One S or iPhone, and it offers the very useful additional features of replaceable battery plus expandable storage via microSD card. The build quality is very good - the feel maybe not quite as luxurious and rock solid as the metal case phones, but in practice it feels just solid, like it will handle being in your backpocket, just right in fact and in no way cheap. The most imediately noticable plastic is the rear battery cover. This has a good quality feel, but attachment is by clik-fit, so how durable it will prove after gazillions of uses is uncertain. If you don't plan to change the battery often, or play with the microSD card or micro SIM you'll probably not be affected. The buttons are metal, very smooth in operation, and well positioned, on-off is located in the centre of the top edge of the phone, and volume up/down and function buttons on the left edge near the top. While the absolute performance is probably no better in any one area than any of the other top range high performance smart phones, the balance of the Z10 is spot on for me. In day to day use it is combination of a very good screen plus truly excellent virtual keyboard with the other good key features (reception, call quality, v.good message handling) that makes it work for me. The keyboard works really, really well, and if you have to use this often, will be biggest plus point as I have have found. Camera quality is not great in comparison the best top range smartfones, performance with flash in low light conditions isn't the best, nor are close ups handled very well, but the Z10 camera is pretty quick to activate and the features easy to use, so if you are buying the Z10 mainly for the non-camera features or are handy with retouching it will probably be plenty good enough. UPDATE _______ Having used the phone for several months, it's a good time to review the review. It's gone from a new user zealot 5 stars to a more realistic 3 stars - it's still has some great potential but in practice has serious performance issues as a real world device. What's changed Overall Performance This has deteriorated in many respects over time, although it may get better after a reset. Reliability from perfect to flakey after about four months. Subsequent OS updates have improved matters, but is only just about acceptable now. Odd things have started to happen much more frequently, so that calls now frequently go straight to vm even when unmoving in a decent signal area. Maps navigation/performance - the z10 is often reluctant to acquire a satellite signal and or/the data connection required to support this. While the data connection flakeyness can't be totally pinned on the Z10, I have tested other similar devices on the same network and at the same time when the Z10 is reluctant, and mostly they have worked when the Z10 wouldn't. The Z10 when it does work often comes up with some unusual routing. This can be a very good thing, and seems to often work best in more suburban environments, however the sensibleness of the routes the z10 comes up with are not at all reliable and can't be relied on in isolation without checking, so unless you pull over and review the route, you really need to carry in your head a fair idea of the road network around you. Despite all this, every now and again it has some up with some very nice routes avoiding traffic. I am not talking about the official re-routing feature that triggers when the device recognises congestion on the route - just the standard routing in Blackberry officially normal (for the device anyhow) road conditions. The biggest problem for me is that I have found that BE Maps can be relied on to just not work in too many scenarios. For me it is around the 60% usable level, which isn't good enough and it kind of defeats this potentially very useful feature. I'm reluctant to go to another app as I think navigation if offered by the mfr should at least work 90 percent of the time you need to use it, if not always providing the very best route - that I can live with. My hope for single mobile device nirvana is thwarted again. Connectivity This may underlie the navigation problem, but the phone often seems to be working much harder than it ought to for a mobile network connection even in a reasonably decent signal area (as judged by several other devices as well as the Z10). Of course if the device is working hard to maintain a network connection, it uses a lot more battery power.. Battery life Quite variable but it has got worse. From a full 24h day with moderate use, it now can't manage much more than ten hours in most conditions with light use. I did partly go for the Z10 because of the battery change out feature. Even with the poor battery life, being able to have another spare or even two on the go really makes up for it. Two batteries gets you through 36 hours most of the time. The Hub / messaging Next to the changeout battery, the Hub is the next best and most useful and reliable feature. Email seems to be more resilient than texting, despite or because of poor mobile network connectivity in comparison to Wif-Fi (with the z10 wi-fi connection is just much more reliable, when attached to an access point the connection is so much more noticeably stable than the connection to the mobile network). Hub search is great. Contacts While the Hub generally really works well, the copying of data from messages to update contacts in frequently encountered scenarios can be awkward and not very intuitive. Browsing Clunky much of the time, I guess partly down to the flakey connectivity, but also the browser seems to have some difficulties even with some main stream popular sites that work well with most Android /iOS devices. App updating / Blackberry World App updating / installation works well. Is now much better availability of apps and especially with access to Android apps, but not sure what that would mean for device security though and how much control over app system security / access functionality is retained in practice. Camera It's not good in most situations. At it's best (though even then just okay) in well lit situations / good daylight, the camera/video flunks it as soon as lighting levels drop. Very poor set up times to take a shot from a standstill - allow 15 seconds minimum to activate the camera and frame a shot. No shooting from the hip, though to be fair Blackberry never did big up the Z10's photographic performance. Physical build. The physical structure has really lasted - very few complaints about this. I was concerned about how the thin plastic / click clip retained battery cover would work after repeated removal and reattachment, as it doesn't look too sturdy, but it's proven to be fine in use with no sign of looseness or other wear. The USB port is showing slight signs of wear and looseness, but this has been worked really very hard indeed. The screen hasn't really been tested for scratch resistance, as it has been covered with a Terrapin screen guard (not great but not too bad either). The shell has also benefited from a lightweight rigid Snugg case (great product). Sum up A curates egg, good in parts, does not really function very well as a whole, but a restart may effect a cure of sorts. If the security benefits are retained in real world use, it may be worth persisting with the OS.

I have ordered this handset in the late of August. After used for a couple of days, I recognised that the Model Type is STL100-1.I then googled and results suggest that if the model type is STL100-1, that means this is a version that is designed specifically for Asia market. Okay, that is fine, I am in the UK, and got a phone with Asia version. This is not the point. The point is, STL100-1 does not support 4G at all! That is the only difference it has in comparing with another model STL100-2! I then decided to return it and get my money back!! That is the reason, I realised, that enables this seller, Take a bite, to sell it slightly cheaper than other sellers!!!!!! I then re-ordered a new one from Amazon, I mean, the seller is Amazon, not anyone else. Perfect, model type STL100-2, EU version with 4G ready to go! So I wrote this review, just would like to suggest you guys to have a check about your model type--if it is STL100-1 version--the version without 4G, then, the choice is yours then. Good luck.

i order brand new but arrived as a used and please mentioned about the product clear. and for buyers please read carefully before order products like this. be aware of it .but finally i was retuned and got the refund .first time in amazon got disappointed with this any how at the end got the refund

Tempo fa' era un buon smartphone

I was sent a very good condition unlocked used Blackberry z10 and the screen was good and no damages and the sim and sd tray work good. Battery isn't forever but I can always get a back up one. Calls are clear and I can still install android apps and internet works good on it. Very good phone and love Im still able to use the real Blackberry phones in 2020. No issues with calls or internet pages ! And my mms pix come through on this blackberry but wouldn't on a samsung phone lol

Locked phone to carrier in USA

Absolut fantastisch ist der BlackBerry Hub, ALLE Informationen auf EINEN Blick (SMS,eMail,Anrufe,...) ! Leider habe ich das Z10 vom Amazon Warehouse gekauft (gebraucht) wo sich herausstellte dass das Micro defekt ist - Retour ! Nochmals als Neugerät bestellt, leider 2-3 Wochen Lieferzeit ! Hoffe es geht schneller, habe bereits in den wenigen Stunden mit dem ersten Gerät Blut geleckt !

Llevo unos cuantos smartphones a mis espaldas (incluso el nuevo iPhone 16), y empecé con la primera Blackberry. Es, con diferencia, el mejor que he usado, salvando los avances que han venido después y que, de haber seguido el fabricante con su desarrollo, seguro estarían a la vanguardia de los mismos.