The IT Nerd

The BlackBerry Z10 has the usual front and rear camera for your video and picture needs. The rear camera is 8MP and you can see the quality of pics that it can take below. First I took an indoor shot at Museum Subway Station in Toronto:

Now, I figured that this wouldn’t be enough, so I travelled to Davisville Station which is also a subway train storage and maintenance facility and took this picture:

What you’re looking it is one of the new “Toronto Rocket” trains that the Toronto Transit Commission is starting to use in the subway system.

Now I took a video from this location as well in 1080P and I was able to upload it straight to YouTube on the spot, more on that after I show you the video. For best results, set it to 1080P and run it in full screen mode:

The video quality is quite good. But back to uploading to YouTube. Unlike the last few Windows 8 Phones that I’ve tested, this phone can upload video in full 1080P resolution to YouTube. The only gripe that I have is that once you start the process, there’s no progress bar or any other visual evidence that the video is uploading. The only clue that the video uploaded at all is a notification in the hub. Blackberry needs to fix that as it’s a bit disconcerting that you don’t know if your video is uploading or not.

Something else to note is that the Z10 comes with editing tools. Crop, enhance and apply artistic filters to any picture you take. It’s not PhotoShop, but it works well. You also get an app called Story Maker which allows you to string photos to make a movie. Another big feature is Time Shift which allows you to take a picture of someone and if you haven’t got the perfect shot, you can use a circular gesture to “go back in time” to get the perfect shot. I’ve tried it and it works quite well. In fact, it works with multiple people in the shot. This is an impressive feature.

I continue to be impressed with this phone which is a good thing. Tomorrow, I’ll wrap things up in part three and give you my verdict on the Z10.

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