Exterior

Let’s put it forward: as opposed to all appearances, Z10 is only as metal as Z8 was. This means that only a part of the back is made of this material, every other silvery part is just painted plastic. There might be some metal under the slide, as the clap after closing the phone makes us think this. The weight of the phone has barely increased since Z8, it’s only a couple of grams heavier, but it’s still pretty heavy with 115 grams. The size didn’t change a lot either, so we’ll have to look in other parts for differences.

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Sliding the phone open results in the same banana shape that we have seen on the predecessor too. This still impresses people: they want to hold it in their hands, take a look at it and things like this. They also press the buttons, so I’m not the only one to observe that the irregular shape is a bit annoying during typing, but this wasn’t the greatest problem, but the hardness of the keys, as the pressure point is very high, one has to handle Z10 a bit harder than a usual phone.

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The shape unfortunately also means that the cover is not very stable. It has quite a lot of play, pressing the top of the handset make the bottom part lift about half a centimeter, which doesn’t really look good, but this design has a price. The spring mechanism, however, is good; this pushes the cover towards the two opposite ends.

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Below the display, around the navigation button, there are six keys, these have an unambiguous feature. Call handling, function keys, clear and menu. Below them there is a railed part, but there is no speaker behind it. Motorola usually packs the antenna here, but I can’t say this for sure this time, as I didn’t crush Z10 open with a crowbar. I could have crushed the display, however, as it’s theoretically scratch-resistant, and this might very well be true, as I have been testing it for two weeks and it has been in awkward situations sometimes (threatening car keys were facing it), but it really has no scratches.

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On the left there is an engraved Motorola label, volume control keys and the hotkey of the multimedia menu. A bit below there is the microSD card slot. On the right there is only the camera’s exposure key and a conventional miniUSB connector. On top and on the bottom the phone is completely flat.

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The back is one of the most interesting parts. The camera is built around the break line and it has a flash too. The cover can be taken off the smaller part of the back: this is where the battery is. Only the center of the cover can be taken off from the other part, this is where we can find the SIM card. The card can be changed without turning the phone off, but upon switching cards the phone will warn us in the menu to restart, or else it won’t connect to the network.

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