A brand new OS like BlackBerry 10 can be a lot to take in. After our initial encounter with the Z10, we stepped away from the hustle and bustle of the big BB10 unveiling to sit down with the phone and really give the software and hardware a much more thorough examination. As you've probably heard by now, BB10 is all about gesture control, something that becomes painfully obvious when you're in an app and don't see any on-screen button to bring you back to the platform's home screen. Instead, a swipe up from the bottom of the screen triggers that transition, and that's a gesture you'll be ...

We've been hearing about BlackBerry 10 hardware for well over a year now, and along the way have seen dozens of leaks and read just as many rumors about what we could expect. Last fall, our idea of what RIM's (now just BlackBerry's) launch devices would be finally began to solidify, and we started looking forward to a full-touch device at launch, followed shortly thereafter by one sporting a hardware QWERTY keyboard. After going through a bunch of different names for these models, we finally zeroed-in on Z10 for the keyboard-less model, and today that phone finally went official. At the ...

Of all the leaked hardware we've seen leading up to today's BlackBerry 10 launch event, no device has been more clear in our eyes than the Z10. BlackBerry is really embracing the idea of models with no hardware keyboards from the get-go with BB10, and the Z10 is intended to highlight just how far the company has come since its QWERTY roots. The Z10 features a 4.2-inch 1280 x 768 display, for a pixel density of 356 ppi. Around back, there's a textured surface to give you a secure grip on the phone, which will be arriving in both black and white. The phone runs a dual-core 1.5GHz OMAP 4470 ...

It's been a long time coming, but after literally years of waiting, the time has finally arrived for BlackBerry 10, the next big chapter in RIM's smartphone story. The company coordinated an ambitious multinational launch event for the debut of its new OS, and beyond the main stage in Toronto, RIM has simultaneous events going on in London, New York, Johannesburg, Paris, and Dubai. With a global audience watching on, CEO Thorsten Heins took to the stage to formally announce the arrival of BlackBerry 10: "BlackBerry 10 is here!" Heins began by discussing just what sort of users RIM designed ...

The problem with BlackBerry news has been, at least until recently, that it just wasn't very interesting. Sure, we'd occasional get news of some hot new hardware, but then RIM would milk the life out of those devices; as of today, the Bold 9900 is still the company's top model, and it launched eighteen months ago. Even on the software side, there was little happening to grab our attention, and especially in light of all that was going on for iOS, Android, and even Windows Phone, it was really hard to find a reason to care that much about BlackBerry. Everyone likes a good story about a ...

BlackBerry 10 will be here in just a matter of days, and while we're looking forward to giving to the new platform a spin, we harbor no illusions that RIM's just going to be able to waltz back into the smartphone game like it didn't essentially take a year off while everyone else kept pushing out new, innovative products. The company has a lot of catch-up work to do, and a huge part of that is going to be convincing the public to give it another chance. That's going to take some big-time exposure, and what better way to reach a huge audience than with a Super Bowl ad? RIM hasn't yet clued ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we go through the Samsung Galaxy S IV benchmark rumors that were recently made public. Then we move to Windows Phone 7.8 as apparently the update will reach devices before the month ends. Then we go through the rumors of a Sprint Windows Phone 8 in the works. Believe it or not, we later talk about BlackBerry 10 since the first US carrier to use it will apparently be Verizon. We end today's show as we talk about the recent UK experiment that will not ship you phones with a charger. All this and more after the break. Stories: - Should We Believe These Samsung ...

Like we said yesterday, now that we're in the BlackBerry 10 home stretch, we're expecting to see some of the most detailed, substantial leaks concerning the platform and its hardware begin to surface. Today, a whole mess of slides for training carrier employees on BB10 has leaked, and among other things, it helps to iron-out some of the confusion surrounding the different L-series models we've heard about. Over the past several months, we've heard about the London, the Laguna, the Lisbon, and even Liverpool. The obvious assumption might have been that they're regional variants of the same ...