Blackberry Z30

Introduction

The BlackBerry Z30 is BlackBerry’s last attempt at trying capture some of the smartphone market that is dominated by android. It is the flagship device that the original Blackberry Z10 should have been. Instead of the Z10 the Z30 should have been the launch device for the BlackBerry 10 OS.

The Design

Shaped like your typical rectangular smartphone slab, at first glance you’ll be having trouble telling the BlackBerry Z30 apart from the sea of similar-looking Android devices now flooding the market. With its jet-black color scheme, silver accents, and rounded corners, the Z30 could’ve been crafted by any of today’s top handset makers. As a matter of fact, the phone’s soft-touch back and subtle striping bears a striking resemblance to the Motorola Droid Maxx.
The prominent BlackBerry logos, both on the back and on the front below the screen, give the Z30 away as device designed in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

The Display

The Z30 is BlackBerry’s biggest-screened smartphone yet. It packs a large 5-inch 720p HD resolution display, which the company says has a pixel density of 295 pixels per inch. Of course, that’s nowhere near as sharp as the displays on the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4, whose full HD screens offer 468ppi and 441ppi, respectively. Still, it’s practically gigantic compared with the displays gracing the previous BlackBerry Z10 (4.2-inch) and BlackBerry Q10 (3.1-inch).One thing though,that you’ll surely notice is that the Z30’s display isn’t very bright. For instance, the Motorola Droid Maxx, while it has the same 720 HD resolution and OLED screen technology, is much brighter when viewed side by side with the Z30. Still, one benefit of the Z30’s OLED hardware is that it has high contrast and wide viewing angles.

The Camera

If you’re familiar with the cameras on the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10, the Z30 won’t offer many surprises. That’s because the Z30 uses the same 8-megapixel sensor and LED flash combo as its predecessors. The camera app is also similarly appointed with mostly identical scene modes and editing options that came bundled with BlackBerry’s first BB10 devices.
For example the Time Shift feature takes multiple shots at once so you can choose the best one later. Designed primarily for group photos of fidgeting people, the phone strives to identify faces of folks within the frame. You can then tap on a highlighted mug (outlined in boxes) and slide a virtual knob on the bottom of the screen. This action shifts through points in time so you can select when the person’s face in question is either looking into the camera or not blinking.
BlackBerry has added an HDR mode, a function that many of today’s camera phones offer, which harnesses the Z30’s Back Side Illuminated sensor to brighten shadow detail in strong backlight. In addition to that, there are four other scene modes to choose from such as Action, Whiteboard (very businesslike and so BlackBerry), Night, and Beach or Snow.