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BlackBerry Q10 is not the only BlackBerry 10-based devices with a physical keypad which was released in 2013. In mid-year, this Canadian company introduced the "sister" of the named Q5 Q10.
Different from his brother, the Q5 into the category of low to mid. Through this product, BlackBerry expect, the device can accommodate the wishes of consumers who want the BlackBerry 10 products at affordable prices.
However, the price of the Q5 itself actually can be quite costly for the pockets of consumers in Indonesia. He is priced at approximately $ 4 million.
With these prices, what will be gained by consumers? What kind of performance of this device?
design
Fond of typing or making documents work via BlackBerry? If yes, BlackBerry Q10 is the answer. The product comes with a soft physical keypad, ensure the comfort of each user.
What about the Q5? Unfortunately, this product is a soft keyboard does not inherit his brother owned. The keypad is quite hard to press, similar to the BlackBerry's keypad Curve ( widely known by the code name Gemini ) for those who 've tried it.
Keypad also cause noise which is quite noisy when pressed. However, in general, the experience of typing on the device is still more comfortable than the BlackBerry "Gemini".
Despite less than perfect when compared to Q10, this keypad is more convenient to use than the virtual keyboard on a touch screen device available in a full sort of Z10. Just needed a little refracting themselves to activities in Q5 be typing more comfortable.
The size of the device is not too large, can be quite small. It has a dimension of 120 x 66 x 10.8 mm. With this size, the BlackBerry Q5 can be grasped with one hand.
Just like the Q10, this new product is not equipped with a touchpad or trackball for navigation activities. Navigation can be done with a touch screen or keypad. The device's screen is responsive and sensitive to the touch.
No different from Q10, Q5 is equipped with a 3.1-inch wide screen resolution of 720 x 720 pixels, and the sharpness of the display 328 pixels per inch (ppi). Q10 is what distinguishes it from the type of screen used. Q10 uses SuperAMOLED display panel, while the Q5 comes with a LCD display panel.
Although panel screen is not as good as Q10, Q5 still able to present a sharp image, bright, and capable of displaying a variety of colors as well.
The screen is quite small, if compared with other brand new smart phones on the market. However, this display will provide a comfortable experience for you to navigate. To reach the end of the screen, you can do it with one hand thumb. Users also did not bother to hold the device with two hands.
Disadvantages of the landscape screen, less exciting Q5 used for multimedia or entertainment activities. 3.1-inch wide screen will not give satisfaction in playing games or watching video, especially the screen is square-shaped box. BlackBerry seems to be designing these devices for work purposes, compared to multimedia entertainment activities.
This screen can only accommodate 12 application icons, comprising 4 icons placed horizontally and vertically 3 icons. If users downloaded more than 12 apps, the icons will be placed on the next page.
After much discussing the front, we now discuss the back. Q10 is different from the material that comes with a premium look, the Q5 has one class of material underneath. He uses a plastic material, a little slippery when held.
What do you usually do when the BlackBerry device crashes or hangs? Probably most of you will answer, remove the battery. Unfortunately, it can not be done again in the Q5. Rear shell of the device is not removable.
Then, where the SIM card should be placed? To answer these questions, we move to the left side of the device. In this section, there are two slots are sealed. In the first or left-most slot, users can insert a microSD card. Capacity cards are supported up to 32 GB. New in the right slot, you can insert a SIM card. While the top port is used for data and charge cable.
On the right side, there is a voice control button is flanked by a volume button. On the up side there is a power button and 3.5mm audio jack. While on the down side, there is a speaker and microphone.
Performance and features
BlackBerry Q5 using the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core types Krait 1.2 GHz and 2 GB RAM. Internal storage provided by BlackBerry for this device is 8 GB, which can be enhanced with a micro SD card with a capacity up to 32 GB.
In general, the Q5 can run smoothly and rushed when opening applications or simply move the page. Watching videos can also run smoothly on this device.
You can run the middle class game. But, once again, you will not be satisfied playing games or videos on a 3.1-inch screen with a 1:1 aspect ratio.
At the Q5 that we received, the power button located on the top of a little loud when pressed. It is a little difficult when you want to rush home turn on the display of the state.
However, it can be anticipated by utilizing the features of BlackBerry 10. You simply sweep the finger from the bottom to the top of the screen when the screen is in sleep state. By using this way, the screen will automatically light up immediately. Gesture is also true if you want to return to the main ( home ).
If you are constantly sweeping the finger to the right, you will meet with the BlackBerry Hub. we really like this feature, because it became the center of notifications and inbox for BBM, SMS, e-mails, phone calls, as well as third-party applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. Simply visiting a BlackBerry Hub, you can see all the incoming notification.
You will also find a page container applications running in the background. This feature offers the ease of multi-tasking, so it can easily move from one application to another.
If you sweep the screen from top to bottom, the box will appear to turn on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Alarm, and go to Notification and Settings.
BlackBerry brings with Docs To Go office applications on the BlackBerry 10 devices. He can create, open and edit Microsoft Word and Excel. As for PowerPoint documents, Docs To Go can only open and edit it.
Internet
Still the same with other devices based on BlackBerry 10, the Q5 does not need a special package BlackBerry Internet Service ( BIS ). The absence of the need for profitable users who want to access the virtual world more quickly , because there is no more bandwidth compression techniques to BlackBerry services.
Internet subscription system BlackBerry 10 phones like smart phones in general. Enough data services from mobile operators, then all services related to the Internet can run, including e-mail, BBM, social media, to surf the internet.
Speaking of surfing the internet, BlackBerry 10 has a browser application ( browser ) itself. Performance is calculated very fast browser.
Unique from the BlackBerry browser 10, you see it is possible the website pages in Reader mode, which displays only text and little pictures. Reader mode uses compression techniques to save bandwidth usage.
camera
The rear camera is only equipped with a 5MP sensor LED flash and a 2MP front camera. The rear camera can record at 1080p @ 30fps quality. How to take photos of the Q5 can by pressing the volume button, or simply by touching the screen.
That the image is not shaped box with an aspect ratio of 1:1, 10 applications BlackBerry camera provides a choice of aspect ratio 4:3 or 16:9.
With the Q5, you possible shoot at close range ( macro ). Has supported auto focus lens , but you can still choose to focus by touching the screen in a while, and then move the focus point on the object that you ingingkan.
The camera application has been providing photo editing features. You can adjust the composition, rotate, crop and adjust brightness. Not only that, the BlackBerry camera app Q5 also has provided a photograph and frame filters like Instagram.
Time Shift feature in BlackBerry 10 phones camera application gives added value.
Technically, when shooting with Time Shift mode, the camera has recorded moments before and after you shoot. He can be relied upon to find the best moment. You can restore a few frames in a matter of milliseconds before and after the photo was taken.
From our experience, Time Shift automatically detects faces up to 3 people in one photo. Well, every face is detected by the Time Shift is still set to take the best expression. If the expression is not good, you just touch the face of someone who is in the picture, then circle the Time Shift detect faces will appear.
Keep in mind, when activating the Time Shift mode, the LED flash on the Q5 can not be used. This is also true in the Z10 and Q10.
Long lasting battery
Q5 has a battery capacity of 2,180 mAh. It's bigger than the BlackBerry Q10 80 mAh and 380 mAh of Z10. The combination of the screen that is not too big and large capacity battery, making the battery consumption is more efficient than the Q5.
From our experience using Q5 for work activities, this phone can last all day, to be exact about 13 to 15 hours.
Actually, the time of life depends on the use of a mobile phone. The more frequent use of the phone, play video, or access the Internet-related services, then the battery will run out quickly.
It takes approximately 2 hours to charge the battery until fully charged Q5.
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