BlackBerry Z10 South Africa price point revealed

xcpointx said:
There is a 'budget' model BB10 on its way that noone speaks of just yet.. the X10 or N10 (who knows)
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I've read reports of Thorsten saying it probably won't happen in 2013. These 2 phones are this year's phones.

xcpointx said:
these guys came out and surprised the crap out of you
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The biggest surprise is no budget phones. That's their main market.

xcpointx said:
you should remain a little more device agnostic and open minded. You lost out on watching this product grow over the last year or so cos you were spending all your time in Google Play. In essence you've defined yourself as a follower. Welcome.
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Agreed... I've been through iOS, Android - currently on WP8. If BB10 is awesome, that'll be my next phone, but I know it'll be 6-12 months before it's an option... need all my essential apps and services to support it, etc.

Fanboys and brand loyalists are usually the last people to get the coolest new tech.
 
kingrob said:
I'm still amazed that people just go ahead and buy a smartphone in this day and age, without doing some research, reading reviews, etc.
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Yes - every review I've seen was very much down the middle. Maybe fanboys read reviews differently and gloss over the negative bits, but some common themes have cropped up in the reviews:

- Bad battery life
- Below average camera (compared to iPhone5, S3, Lumia920 - its apparent peers)
- Generally awful apps because the majority are Playbook or Android ported apps without any work on the UI
- UI not really suited for power users (tends to give information overload)
- Very average display

Now, these are important things, and the current top flagship phones are top of the game in at least one of these categories. You'd expect a phone that costs as much or more than its peers get at win in at least one of those departments!

I'm not saying the phone is a failure, but this is a v1.0 ... it certainly needs an iteration of the software and/or hardware until it's safe to go with it. Right now you're taking a gamble.
 
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kingrob said:
I'm still amazed that people just go ahead and buy a smartphone in this day and age, without doing some research, reading reviews, etc.

Because if they did, they would find that the BlackBerry Z10's battery life sucks donkey balls. And who wants a phone that is dead by lunch time?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/30/3929760/blackberry-z10-review
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TBH haven't had any brand phone in last 10 years that had decent battery life if actually actively used. The days of recharging twice a week are over

Have read multiple forum posts from actual Z10 owners/users who say that the battery life improves over time
 
hashbrown99 said:
TBH haven't had any brand phone in last 10 years that had decent battery life if actually actively used. The days of recharging twice a week are over
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Yup, you just have to accept that with smartphones. Daily charge needed.

hashbrown99 said:
Have read multiple forum posts from actual Z10 owners/users who say that the battery life improves over time
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Most the reivews had the phones 1-2 weeks, should have been enough for them to see it. My Lumia 920 needed that kind of priming. First day I got 6 hours from full charge, but after about a week it was up to full performance - it easily lasts 24 hours with normal use (on 52% now, after me being on the go since 7:30am). If you just leave it on standby, like on a table all day on a weekend, it will regularly get 12 hours with 15%-20% battery used. Nokia and Blackberry have always been amazing with batteries. The first batch of WP7 devices were pretty average with batteries, but Nokia's got their mojo back with the WP8 devices. It looks like BB might need a year to get their new platform right as well. Maybe the BB11 devices will have exceptional battery life again.
 
falcon786 said:
SNIP [WhatsApp] it doesn't have read reports,I use both since I have an s3 as my main phone and a bb for bbm and honestly bbm is better IMO.Even the smileys on whatsapp ar ea bit irritating but ok thats nitpicking.
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FYI:WhatsApp does have a delivery and read reports.
The message has one tick for deivered.
Two ticks when it's read.

I think RIM/BB missed an oportunity, they should have made a cross platform BBM client.
Charge $10-$20 per year - lots of people would buy it.
 
system32 said:
FYI:WhatsApp does have a delivery and read reports.
The message has one tick for deivered.
Two ticks when it's read.

I think RIM/BB missed an oportunity, they should have made a cross platform BBM client.
Charge $10-$20 per year - lots of people would buy it.
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No...1 tick means sent...2 means delivered to recipient.
 
Meh.. Switching over to the Galaxy S4 when it launches and keeping my current BB on prepaid for BBM.
 
Quentin Legend said:
Meh.. Switching over to the Galaxy S4 when it launches and keeping my current BB on prepaid for BBM.
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Hmm.... forgot all about the S4. That's about to knock everything out the headlines, and then the S3 will drop in price. Going to be hard to justify a R7000 Z10 if the S3 drops to below R5000!
 
Seems like there are a lot of "Anti-BB" users here. No offence though, but most of you can't declare BlackBerry dead before it's even Bankrupt. Apple also had almost died years ago look where it is now. And about the BlackBerry Z10 Price and other Smartphones all prices are high when you buy them at stores (not online ones), but are cheaper online so what you did there was try to make BlackBerry seem like it's over pricing the Z10. Last time I checked Galaxy Cost R7000 and that's the one without LTE (Read TechSmart) even Foshini had it for that price and iPhone 5 is about the same price depending on the storage space Obviously 8GB will be cheaper than 16GB, Z10 comes with 16GB but it's about the same price as the 8GB iPhone 5 (Don't believe me go inquire).

I bet most reviews you guys read are biased especially the Verge one, go to CNET check the Camera Reviews Z10 is better in some pictures compared to iPhone and Galaxy S3, sure it's still at v1.0 but it's gives most phones in the market a tough challenge.

I'm a CrackBerry but I know when another phone is better than the Z10 but not in all departments. And I'm pretty much sure the Galaxy S3 won't drop that much when the S4 is released just like what iPhone did the 4S is still quite expensive.
 
I love the look of the Z10. It is a beautiful well designed phone that is as well designed as anything Jonny Ive has done. Same goes for Sony Xperia Z ... looks stunning.
 
Samsung's S4 will have to come with some amazing features to make me take it over the Sony Xperia Z. Sony has really come to the party in a big way now. Samsung is in for a tough time with other makers catching up fast.

The BB Z10 is a device I really want to give a go. I'm very curious to see what it offers. One of those devices a geek must try out or we can't sleep.
 
Quite frankly, I am quite irritated with having all my emails, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and whatnot persistently bugging me on my phone. I am deleting everything because people can damn well wait until I am in front of my PC to respond to them, or they can just frikkin call me if it's so damned urgent.

I have no burning desire to tweet that I am sitting at an airport, or FB that I am stuck in traffic.

I tried the sheep thing, and it's not for me, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
 
I hear you. I think this might be part of the idea behind the hub design in z10. That said bb has always had customizable alert settings for every inbound communication. For example I created an 'office' one where there is no blinking red light or tones for email, twitter, fb since I am online all day. Only notification I have on is calls at low volume and a short vibration. If you install apps like foursquare you can do the same for those apps too (alert when friends checkin).
 
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