Everything You Need to Know About the BlackBerry Z30

Here’s Jorge Fernando Vazquez with everything you need to know to get your apps ready for the BlackBerry Z30 smartphone – Ed.
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The new BlackBerry Z30 is a full touch-screen device that introduces some changes that you need to consider as a developer.
In this post, I will start by pointing out some of the differences between the BlackBerry Z10, BlackBerry Z30 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones, and then I’ll show you how to make the porting process as easy as possible for each of our development platforms (Cascades, WebWorks, Adobe Air, and Android).

Know The Differences

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As you can see, the BlackBerry Z30 display is larger and has a more narrow aspect ratio than the BlackBerry Z10, therefore, we need to be careful while designing our apps so that there are no cropped images, or overlapping components.
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The camera features are the same across all three devices, so there is no need for adjustments there.
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The BlackBerry Z30 comes with a more powerful processor than the BlackBerry Z10 or BlackBerry Q10, giving us higher graphics capabilities.
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All other features are common across all three devices, the exception being that the BlackBerry Q10 has a physical keyboard and the others have a full touch screen.