I must admit I was going to get one, and then I realised why I sold my bold 9900 (lack of apps) and that put a hold to those plans.
Still think to this day the bold 9900 had the best call quality and reception of any phone I've had (and I've had lots )...
There was a technology spot on the radio last night and they reviewed it (the z10) and boy did they give it a pounding. They really didn't like it. I don't agree with them (the reviewers) as they I have found tend to be very inaccurate with their information and their knowledge base is very limited, but they do tend to refelect a lot of general people's opinions. They found all te gesture swiping. Lack of navigation buttons and general messiness that the Hub eventually becomes especially when adding social updates - a calamity to use compared to iOS and Android.
For me I love the look of the new OS, but I'm a bit of a geek - so maybe my opinion is less reflected by casual smartphone users?
The biggest flaw for me with the z10 is pricing. It's right up there with the flagship handsets on iOS and Android. Which is fine if it could offer 'all' the content and support that those other flagships offer with their oS's, but sadly it can't. Promising an update, and optomistc that some of the bigger apps will come to your platform is not the same as delivering them.
The only reason developers are interested at the moment was the fact they gave away dev10 handsets and promised to give back money to developers earning less than 10k ? Seriously RIM - given the terrible content on your store right now that your offering as recommended apps - this is the biggest Achilles heel of any device I've ever witnessed. Terrible ported apps mixed with terrible broken native apps that remind us of the terrible apps in the early days of android that it has struggled to distance itself from over the last number of years, and here the blackberry world is - serving broken crap up to users who are more than aware of what smartphone apps should be....
Sorry RIM. Your panic to get content for the store was hideously misjudged. You've saddled your store with apps that even the antichrist would be ashamed of.
No hardware or OS alone can hide this fatal flaw, and no smartphone user now is willing to forgo their normal app usage to switch to BB10 in the 'hope' that their current selection of regularly used apps appear simply because the RIM execs are currently 'optimistic' they can attract them, without any real evidence of interest from the majorly successful app players/developers.
