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I'm not sure about gestures (can they be done with one hand?) but the unified inbox ("hub") sounds like a fantastic idea.

I don't understand why I can't see all messages from all my email accounts in one window, together with voice messages and texts (Tweets may be a little overwhelming, but they can be filtered out).

This really sounds great -- although it's probably not hard to replicate on another platform.

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I got my Z10 yesterday and I can confirm that the phone (and all the gestures) are completely usable with just one hand. The phone size was selected pretty intelligently. I don't think the UI design would have worked with a bigger phone.

If you don't mind me asking, what platform were you on before? I'm considering ditching my iPhone for the Z10 as I'm so tired of Apple. I really miss the unified inbox in BlackBerry world and the hub sounds promising. App selection is not that important to me.

I was using galaxy s2x. A variant of s2 with a 4.5 inch screen. That was hard to use single handed. This is my first blackberry so no idea how it compares with previous blackberry handsets.

Sorry to single you out for this question, but you're the first person I've seen who actually has one. Does the unified inbox thing support RSS? The concept seems great, but without RSS support it isn't that useful to me.

I don't think it does out-of-the-box, but applications can hook into the Hub (the unified inbox) so it is possible to write an app to do that.

The unified inbox reminds me of the unified inbox of the Cisco Cius tablet a couple years ago, though the BB10 version looks much better. The one on the Cius didn't support as many services or have such great hooks between email, calender, etc from in the inbox. Though, the Cius did have the ability to look at a contact and see everything from email, text messages, calender, voice mail, recent calls, etc at once.

Windows phone does this unification in a way that works better for me.

All messages (sms, chat, facebook messages) are together All emails are together All social walls (facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc) are together.

You can switch the communication medium i.e. reply to facebook message with an SMS and so on. Of course all of these are filterable and configurable. This seems to work better for me as they are most of the times distinct worlds.

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