Which smartphone is the ideal purchase for consumers? We pit Apple's iPhone 5S and the Blackberry Z10 to see which one is better.
For the design and display, the Blackberry Z10 has a flat back with a rectangular shape, the edges are straight and the corners are rounded. The material used is a removable plastic shell, and has a rubbery texture for a better grip. Its dimensions are 130×65.6×9 mm and weighs 137.5 grams, being thicker and heavier than the iPhone 5S, whose dimensions are 123.8×58.6×7.6 mm and weighs 112 grams.
The iPhone 5S screen is aLED-backlit IPS LCD, with a resolution of 640×1136 pixels and 326ppi, while the Blackberry Z10 has a 4.2 inches display whose resolution is slightly higher at 768×1280 pixels, and gives a pixel density of 355ppi.
In terms of hardware and OS, the iPhone 5S has a 64-bit based A7 chipset that supports a dual core 1.3GHz Cyclone processor that teams up with a PowerVR G6430 GPU and 1GB of RAM. The phone runs fast and without lags, but it has the smallest memory capacity (16GB) and the other two variants are 32 and 64GB. The smartphone runs on the iOS 7, and now users can enjoy the new experience offered by the iOS 8.1.1 version.
The BlackBerry Z10 uses a Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon dual core 1.5 GHz Krait processor with Adreno 225 graphics and 2GB of RAM, it runs on BlackBerry 10 OS (upgradable to v10.2.1).
For the battery and camera specs, the iPhone 5S has a non-removable 1560mAh battery that can last 250 hours in stand by mode, and it provides 10 hours of talktime. The Blackberry Z10 has the same life battery, but the capacity is higher at 1800 mAh, and the unit is removable.
Both smartphones take photos with rear cameras with the same resolution of 8MP, but they have a few features in common such as autofocus, HDR, face detection and geo tagging, having the same video recording capabilities at 1080p@30fps, but the iPhone 5S has a dual-LED flash, which is more efficient than the single LED flash from the back of its rival. The Blackberry Z10 has a particular feature named Time Shift which takes more snaps and you get to adjust the entire image or someone’s face. The front camera on this device is 2MP, while the Apple device has a 1.2MP secondary camera.
The iPhone 5S 16GB cost $570 dollars, while the 32GB variant costs $638, and the 64GB variant is $66 dollars more expensive. The Blackberry Z10 cost only $203 dollars.
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