BlackBerry Q10 Pre-Orders Now Available Through AT&T
BlackBerry Q10 pre-orders are now available for AT&T customers.
T-Mobile recently advertised that the smartphone is now in stock and AT&T should have it in the very near future, as it is offering customers with an opportunity to reserve the device.
The BlackBerry Q10 is the first smartphone with a full physical QWERTY keyboard that runs the company's new operating system BlackBerry 10. It follows the all-touch BlackBerry Z10 that launched on AT&T and other major U.S. carriers earlier this year.
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The Q10 features decent specifications including a 3.1-inch display with 720 x 720 pixel resolution, a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera, and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
USA Today's Ed Baig reviewed the BlackBerry Q10 back in April. He feels that lovers of past models will take to this new version thanks to its full physical QWERTY keyboard.
"The company formerly known as Research in Motion once owned the physical keyboard smartphone market and still does," wrote Baig. "How big a market that remains is in question, but the Q10 is a winner for BlackBerry aficionados keen on thumb typing."
Other publications such as Mashable hold that same sentiment regarding the handset.
"So the Q10 scores a victory, but it's a pyrrhic one. As good as many of the features of the Q10 are, it's not a phone I could recommend to anyone but the diehard few who were already lining up for it," said the publication's Pete Pachal.
However, other critics such as Jonathan S. Gellar at BGR criticized its design.
"Looking at the Q10's design invokes mixed feelings. The front of the smartphone seems clean and almost modern, but the back feels tacky with a half-rubberized, half stick texture," he said.
