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BlackBerry 10 OS Revealed with the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10

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Right out the gate, I was surprised by the BlackBerry 10 event. The very first announcement was one that completely took me by surprise: RIM, or Research In Motion , is changing their name to BlackBerry. It makes sense, but I didn't think they'd go so far to underscore the point they're trying to make about their rebirth. The rest of the presentation went swiftly as well, and saw the announcement of two new phones running the new BlackBerry 10 OS . The first new phone is one that we saw in many leaks before today: the BlackBerry Z10 . This is a touch-screen phone, with internals that are up to Android flagship standards - vintage late 2011, at least. That includes a reasonably dense and quite pretty 4.2" 1280 x 768 display, a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage expandable via micro SD to 48 GB in total. The phone's chassis is interesting too, with the same wedge-ended design that we saw in leaks previously. The BlackBerry