BlackBerry Q5 review: The apprentice

26 July 2013
Smartphone makers believe in trickle-down economics. They build their portfolios top to bottom, looking to get as much bang out of the flagship as they can and, after the hype around it has settled, they bring out the more affordable...

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  • Alan
  • txj
  • 27 Jul 2013

non removable battery ? FAIL. they made big mistake there.

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    • Anonymous
    • 61F
    • 27 Jul 2013

    Blackberry needs to bring the price of all their phones down by at least 25% if they want any chance to survive. I know BB is already operating at a small loss right now, but I think they need to sacrifice more of their bottom line for a few quarters in exchange of market share, as windows phone already entrenched firmly in the third place. With only around 3% share of global smartphones' shipment in this quarter, BB is in a serious situation.

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      • Anonymous
      • v0X
      • 27 Jul 2013

      The most beautiful and capable qwerty phone

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        • AnonD-66139
        • 7tC
        • 27 Jul 2013

        price is so damn high :o 25k indian rupees for these hardware specs.

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          • Mohammed
          • rx2
          • 27 Jul 2013

          i got this one. its a work horse

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            • AnonD-61702
            • K@7
            • 27 Jul 2013

            No FM radio upsets me a few. But as it's almost the only option for a similar form-factor phone, I think I'll go for this to replace my ChaCha...

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              • jaminbob
              • 0Fa
              • 27 Jul 2013

              Both the q5 and the 10 are ridiculously over priced. But I desperately miss qwerty. I can't help but for feel blackberry missed a trick with dumping their OS and focusing on the hardware and apps side of things (corporate focus specifically).

              Any qwerty sliders on android in the EU?

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                • AnonD-131714
                • XMc
                • 27 Jul 2013

                Insane price and no FM Radio? FM Radio is a must these days.

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                  • AnonD-129806
                  • nEq
                  • 27 Jul 2013

                  Not even any equalisers never mind surround sound options,complete fail for me and with these prices,,tut tut.

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                    • Paximos
                    • kc7
                    • 27 Jul 2013

                    I like Blackberry, but with prices out there, there is no way I will buy one!!

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                      • AnonD-78383
                      • Yd6
                      • 27 Jul 2013

                      Much worse than the Q10