The teardown, by UBM TechInsights, isn’t the most thorough, but at least it’s a start. Taking a peek inside, UBM TechInsights found, in terms of the main components, what they were expecting: a Snapdragon S4 Plus chips, some other Qualcommm parts, and Samsung-made RAM and storage.
One thing does stand out though: across the board, many of the design decisions on the inside seem to run parallel with those made by Samsung for the Galaxy S III. As UBM TechInsights explain:
All in all, the Blackberry Z10 seems to incorporate many of the component selections of the Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE. It’s not certain if these decisions the designers made on what semiconductors, ICs and other modules to use were by design or by accident.
Given the success of the Galaxy S III, we think it’s safe to say it’s no accident. [UBM Techinsights via CrackBerry via Engadget]
explains why I was reading android apps port migth be straight forward...
Those are hardly uncommon components. The same Samsung RAM package is in the Nexus 4. The same Samsung flash memory is in the Kindle Fire HD. The same Qualcomm power management chip is in the One X. Sibling versions of these chips (eg, 1GB RAM packages instead of this 2GB package) are in countless more phones.
i wonder if this means you will be able to buy a z10 for cheap when blackberry finally folds, and then install 4.2.2 on it? :)
Or... Dual boot A4.2.2 + BB10 from an S3.
yeeeeah...but who cares about that? i just want a cheap s3 :)