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Review: BlackBerry Z10 is good stab at rebirth

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Arun Kumar, a senior product manager for BlackBerry, shows off the new BlackBerry Z10 Wednesday during the global launch of the new Blackberry smartphones in Toronto. BlackBerry is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the company.

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Are you ashamed to have a BlackBerry? It's not exactly a status symbol any more, at least not in the U.S., after it got left in the dust by the iPhone. Now, there's a new BlackBerry that wants to get back into the cool club: the Z10. It's the first phone to run the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, and it is, at first blush, a very good stab at regaining at least some of the cachet of the BlackBerry.