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What about a 4.8" Q30 with 1:1ratio ?
After reading a guy pretending to have a seen a huge dev device http://forums.crackberry.com/blackbe...device-923494/
i just wanted to try and see how big such a 13cm x 9 cm device would actually look like (the 'witness' claimed it was huge in front of his Z10).
(Don't laugh, i know it's a miserable try but i don't have the skills of our mock up geniuses...)
So first of all why do i want a Q30 with such a screen estate?
Master Chen once spoke about multitasking and the ability to run more than one app on your screen (as the Galaxy Note successfully does) and for that to be a good experience you need a taller and above all a wider screen.
To give a precise idea 13cmx9cm is about the size of an European passport (slightly taller 0,5cm, and even more slightly wider 0,2cm) so likely to fit in your pocket but let's face it you'll need two hands to use it comfortably (at least if you have normal sized hands).
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By the way who would manage more than one app on screen with only one hand when it's mainly all about writing, cutting and pasting?
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In that format the Q30 would be more than a Q10 evolution, more like a mini PC comeback (what Palm users were to normal cellphone consumers few years ago), if i ever understood the qualification i think we could define it as the first real BB10 "prosumer" device.
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For the specs i followed what the dev device in the post i quoted seemed to sport:
- 3 rows of keys (with the strange border we saw on one of Blackberry's keyboard patent), the last row is for bottom end device (keyboard can't be on the edge of the phone)
- the screen is a 1:1 ratio (3.31"x 3.31") for a 4.8" square (12,19 cm)
If anyone feels the need and has the time to do a proper photoshop mock up i would be very interested in seeing a more realistic rendering, and i think we can gain something in the top screen space (mainly to take 0,5 cm off the final size and not to gain some screen estate as i think 1:1 ratio is the signature for the Q devices)
Cheers!