The UI was fantastic. It was extremely well thought out, consistent, and easy-to-use once you learned it. Even the swipe up to go home was super natural. > I r

The UI was fantastic. It was extremely well thought out, consistent, and easy-to-use once you learned it. Even the swipe up to go home was super natural. > I really wish someone would do a phone UI that is a lot more text focused. It has to be consistent, otherwise there's little point. BB10 had one-button keyboard shortcuts everywhere—it was baked into the OS, and it worked really well. Part of the reason it worked well is that there were standards. Backspace was always "delete", C was always "create" or "compose", I/O was zoom in/out, T/B was scroll to top/bottom—you get the picture. Keyboard shortcuts typically corresponded with menu items, and the shortcut would be shown in the menu. It's not like desktop multi-key shortcuts that are super hard to remember. Mostly because BB10 shortcuts were contextual. On the home screen, long-pressing a key would also open an app, which you could customise at will.