The BlackBerry Z10: How It Stacks Up Against The iPhone, Android And Windows 8 Superphones [Chart]

John Brownlee (11:10 am PDT, Jan 30th)

How does the BlackBerry Z10 Compare?

It’s official: the BlackBerry Z10, the first smartphone to ship with the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, and what many believe is the last chance for BlackBerry (formerly RIM) to save itself from complete irrelevance.

The early reviews of the Z10 aren’t bad, but aren’t great, pretty much agreeing that the smartphone is just good enough to buy BlackBerry some time. But how does it stack up, spec-for-spec, against the iPhone 5 and some of Android’s top phones? We’ve put together a chart for you to see for yourself.

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	BlackBerry Z10	iPhone 5	Nokia Lumia 920	Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD	Samsung Galaxy SIII	HTC One X
Operating System	BlackBerry 10	iOS 6	Windows Phone 8	Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich	Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich	Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwitch
Display	4.2-inch LCD display (1280 x 768)	4-inch Retina display (1136×640)	4.3-inch AMOLED display (800×480)	4.7-inch Super AMOLED display (1280×720)	4.8-inch Super AMOLED display (1280×720)	4.7-inch Super LCD 2 display (1280×720)
PPI	356	326	332	312	306	312
Processor	1.2GHz dual-core	1.3GHz dual-core A6	1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4	1.5GHz dual-core	1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4	1.5 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A9
RAM	2GB	1GB	1GB	1GB	1GB-2GB	1GB
Storage	16GB + microSD slot	16GB, 32GB, 64GB	32GB	32GB + microSD slot	16GB, 32GB, 64GB	32GB
Camera(s)	8MP (rear) + 2MP (front)	8MP (rear) with f2.4 + 1.3MP (front)	8.7MP PureView (rear) + 1.3MP (front)	8MP (rear) + 1.3MP (front)	8MP (rear) + 1.9MP (front)	8MP (rear) + 1.3MP (front)
Wireless	UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, GSM, CDMA, LTE	UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, GSM, CDMA, LTE	HSDPA, GSM, LTE	HSDPA, GSM, CDMA, LTE	UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, GSM, CDMA, LTE	UMTS, HSPA, HSPA+, GSM
Dimensions	130mm x 66mm x 9.3mm	123.83 x 58.57 x 7.6 mm	130.3 x 70.8 x 10.7 mm	131.9 x 67.9 x 9.3 mm	136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm	134.4 x 69.9 x 8.9 mm
Weight	136 g	112 g	185 g	157 g	133 g	130 g
Battery	1,800 mAh	1,440 mAh, 3.8V	2,000 mAh	3,300 mAh	2,100 mAh, 3.8V	1,800 mAh

Please scroll the table left and right to see all of its contentsAs you can see, hardware-wise, the BlackBerry Z10 is about on-par with what we expect from a modern smartphone, but doesn’t exactly push the envelope in anything except pixel density. And with Mobile World Congress 2013 right around the corner, it’s likely that before the Z10 even launches in March, we’ll see some smartphones that blow the BlackBerry 10 out of the water.

Even so, compared to the hardware Dark Ages that BlackBerry users have been haunting up until now, the Z10 is clearly a step in the right direction: the first truly modern BlackBerry that the company has introduced in years. But are decent specs alone enough to stop BlackBerry’s calamitous plummet when it comes to market share?

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http://twitter.com/suttonmontreal IOS 6.1 
That’s it, I’m in…..
JeffBishop
Looks beautiful, however I think (much like the adaptation of Windows Phone), it might be too late. Especially considering that Google and Apple have been working on ecosystems across all of their platforms/devices – something that RIM… err… Blackberry has missed the mark on (source: Blackberry Playbook sales)
http://www.facebook.com/xyrer Gustavo Parrado
Well, QNX is a real time OS, which makes software run incredibly smooth, at this time is not about better OS or better machines, it is about apps, if Blackberry manages to get the apps I use on Android I might be really tempted, I have one anyway, the dev alpha device and it really makes me want to carry 2 phones.
- http://twitter.com/calvinchk Calvin
  yea i agree. i find cult of mac getting much more biased than before tho. thats why i read engadget. cult of android is also pretty biased but not that much. just saying, cult of mac
  - spyderbite9001
    Hah! Engadget objective? thats funny.
http://twitter.com/andreseoliver Andres Oliver
The screen specks of the Lumia 920 are wrong. It has a 720p screen.
Tyler Hojberg
iOS and Android take up something crazy like 96% of the mobile OS market. Is there even any room for Blackberry?
http://manda-moore.me Amanda Moore
Lumia 920 Screen:1280X768, 60 Hz refresh rate, super sensitive touch
Those are specs for the 900 it looks like.
spyderbite9001
The biggest problem with blackberry is that they have nothing to tie it to. Look at Windows phone and their integration with xbox and windows 8. Or Iphone integrated with apple tv and macbooks. Blackberry is an island to itself, it doesn’t play well with anything else I own. Yes, apps are big, but lately, the biggest differentiation between products seems to be its ability to tie in with everything else. Thats why I still have an HDTV, blu-ray player, tablet, smartphone… All my gadgets play well together, and the market seems to respond favorably to anything that can integrate into our lives easily.
http://www.facebook.com/adam.schadt.14 Adam Schadt
Lumia 920 link for you losers who can’t even get the specs right: http://www.nokia.com/us-en/products/phone/lumia920/specifications/

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John Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Android, as well as our sister site, Cult of Mac. He has written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his charming inamorata and two tiny budgerigars punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous perverts. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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