One of Canada’s favourite companies just completed their launch of their new phone and OS –  introducing the Blackberry Z10. I followed the launch along from start to now, thanks to TELUS who invited me.

The launch party in Toronto.

Whomever was in charge of the party crushed the guest list; that was a quality crowd.

Got to see many old social media faces and friends, from the good ‘ole days 2009-11-ish.

See how the keyboard is predicting what I’m typing? Once you get the hang of it, ahhh the efficiency.

(see my cell phone history here)

It plays Flash! & HTML5

Parental controls, nice.

Security note – the default of NFC is “on”. Turn it off immediately #security

NFC – Near Field Communication. Pass files between phones without touching. (this blog post touches on it, here and start at the Charlie Miller part)

Then, it was off to TELUS HQ for a Z10 learning session.

I was pretty pumped for this event because, because at that time I was into researching how to move ‘contacts & calendar’ files among iPhone / BB / Android… BUT, move it withOUT using the cloud.

A – Nope.  Have to use the cloud.

However, TELUS has half the problem solved… it’s a cabled solution, available in each of their retail stores; port contacts from phone to phone, but not calendar.

(here’s the video)

Good luck, Blackberry! 
Your new phone is beautiful, you got this,
& Canada’s still behind you cheering you on xo