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About - Sitemap - Contact - Privacy. Cat fights and lawsuits aside, the one thing you can say for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone is that all three offer fundamentally different interfaces and user experiences.
Android's customizable home screens and resizable widgets offer a real alternative to the Windows Phone live tiles and iOS's neat grids of icons. BlackBerry has not followed suit, however. Unlike other up-and-coming rivals -- Ubuntu, say -- which have designed distinctive interfaces, setting themselves apart from other operating systems, BlackBerry has chosen to copy the iOS grid approach rather than develop something all its own. Even deleting apps and arranging them into folders involves exactly the same set of gestures and prods you'd use on an iPhone.
It's not bad exactly, but it's not different or exciting, either; you won't find any true innovation here. In all honesty, I can't help wondering what exactly BlackBerry has been doing all this time. BB10 was so delayed I'd presumed the company had gone right back to basics, regrouped, and was building this operating system from the ground up. When I dig down into menus, however, I see plain text lists and familiar icons, all of which stink of the stale BlackBerry OS I know of old.
That said, I've always been a fan of BlackBerry unified inbox, so I'm glad to see it's survived in the form of the 'Hub'. Why there's no clear "mark-all-as-read" feature is baffling, though. As for the spruced-up BlackBerry Messenger, I'm afraid it's now completely useless to me. I don't personally know anyone who still uses a BlackBerry, which is in itself very telling.
As with many things in life, it's the small, seemingly insignificant details that will make or break your daily experience of using a particular phone. For me, it is this: when the alarm goes off in the morning, two white boxes pop up at the top of the huge black expanse of screen asking me in a tiny font if I want to "snooze" or "dismiss.
There is way more room for error than I'd like; it just hasn't been thought through. Unfortunately for BB10, iOS and Android have been tweaked and refined to the extent now that details like this have been fine-tuned to near perfection, and this realization grates at 6 a.
Where have all my apps gone? The first thing I do when I start using a new phone is make my way to the app store and download the small number of apps I've become reliant on and use on a daily basis. Among these, only TubeMap was available on BlackBerry World, and I couldn't find adequate alternatives for any of the others. The frequency with which I use WhatsApp and the Spotify app in particular cannot be understated.
I wouldn't consider using a phone that doesn't have them, and I can get them on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8, but while I used the phone, neither were available on BB I found the built-in maps app seriously subpar, as I'm used to using Google Maps.
Even the much-berated Apple Maps app is superior, and let us not be too quick to forget what an uproar that caused when it launched. As for other apps, discoverability, quality, and pricing are massive issues. HTC, Samsung and Huawei also have their own devices out and about. Talk of Windows Phone Blue, or 8. Current devices span the market, again from a variety of OEMs, with the high end Nokia Lumia , or the low end Lumia Being a whole new OS, it is unavailable on previous BB7 toting devices.
There has been no such problems for mapping on Android, given that Google has managed to port across its Google Maps desktop browser application so successfully. Google maps provides one of the most comprehensive mapping apps available, as well as being able to provide information through its Local app, and sat-navving via the Navigation app.
Google's recent acquisition of Waze is going to throw in user based traffic updates as well. Microsoft has also got a decent map app. Bing maps brings over many features that were prevalent throughout Nokia phones of old, including Nokia's turn-by-turn directions from Nokia Drive. Other useful features include downloading maps for offline use, pinning favourite locations and Local Scout similar to Google's Local.
BB10 provides a basic mapping option as well, covering turn-by-turn and traffic updates.
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