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With new phones from Samsung & HTC weeks away and Apples next release in summer I do not know if they are able to save the company

Is Apple already releasing a new phone? I just got the iPhone 5 last fall. My phone is going to be obsolete even before it's a year old!

At work I look after the corporate email and mobile devices, and we've had 3 people activate Z10 units on our Enterprise Server since release. 2 of them returned the units within 2-3 days. Our CIO said "it was so counter-intuitive I had an aversion to picking it up".

One user went back to his Windows 8 phone which he said was "far superior", our CIO went went back to an iPhone 5.

I'd think the fact that after 30 days we have ONE person using a Z10 to access corporate resources in a 5000 user company says something, and not something good.

Having used a Dev Alpha unit for several months, the final BB10 software since the end of January, and a Z10 for about a month I'd say it's a good upgrade for the die-hard BB fans who have held out for this device. It's a nice piece of hardware. The screen is excellent. The OS is a bit quirky and often bugs out. Many of the more detailed features from earlier BB OS versions are missing (assigning categories in contacts for example) but for the most part it's decent. iPhone and Android fans likely won't find too much to get excited about unless they are upgrading from an old device such as a 3G or 3GS.

App selection is poor. They may have 70,000 apps but if they're not the ones you want that doesn't do you much good. I listed 25 iOS apps I use regularly (either daily or several times per week) that are not available in AppWorld and there are few to no alternatives for the majority of them. There are a ton of crappy ported Android apps that low-end developers probably dumped there just to get a free device or two. Big name developers are few. That's not to say there's nothing good, but if you're heading in expecting the app selection to be on par with the App Store or Google Play you're in for disappointment.

The BlackBerry forums for the Z10 are loaded with mostly negative threads about missing features, things that don't work, things that changed for the worse, etc. If you are a hardcore BB user who gets into the nitty gritty features of your existing device, you might want to take some time to get familiar with what the new device won't do. If you get one, make sure you clearly understand the return policy of your carrier.

If all you want is a touchscreen BlackBerry that does mail, contacts, calendar, BBM and phone calls then you'll probably be happy. If you want more than that odds are you'll be less impressed.

That said, inevitably someone will come along to say it's the greatest phone ever and iPhone and Android can suck it, but to each their own.

OP, this is why you should just go in a store, test drive a few different phones, and pick the one you like the most. You are not going to get unbiased opinions from any message board, especially when the topic is electronic gadgets.

Ever notice how so many devices never have working display models? Such a pain...
If you bug the dealer maybe you are lucky and they have an open box but otherwise...

Correction: not true, I care. I am eyeing HTC 8x, what did you get? Whatever you have, install Nokia Drive with its offline map.

Zeeshan Hamid

Is Apple already releasing a new phone? I just got the iPhone 5 last fall. My phone is going to be obsolete even before it's a year old!