POGUE: The BlackBerry Z10 Is 'Lovely'

He says the new smartphone is "lovely, fast, and efficient, bristling with fresh, useful ideas."

Here's a summary of his review:

• It's actually a complete phone: "So it's all here: a well-stocked app store, a music and movie store, Mac and Windows software for loading files, speech recognition, turn-by-turn navigation, parental controls, copy and paste, Find My Phone (with remote-control lock and erase) and on and on."

• He thinks the 4.2-inch screen is super sharp.

• It's thin and sleek.

• The BB 10 software is easy to use and master.

• The Z10 has a "mind-bogglingly clever typing system."

• Speech recognition is a little slow and not very accurate.

• The camera software is impeccable: "One feature, Time Shift, is mind-blowing."

• It's perfect for corporate workers: "If a company has BlackBerry’s corporate software suite, they can create separate worlds on each phone: personal and work, with distinct calendars, address books, wallpaper and even app collections."

• Some flaws: "There’s no physical silencer switch (only a software function). In the Mail app, you can’t move from one message to the next without returning to the In-box in between. The calendar views don’t rotate when you turn the phone, and you can’t drag appointments to reschedule them. When you’ve used the faux Siri to dictate a message or e-mail, you can’t edit it, even manually. And the battery barely makes it through a day."

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