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Thorsten Heins, the CEO of BlackBerry, released a cheap version — Q5 on BlackBerry Live 2013. This version is mainly for users in emerging markets.

BlackBerry Q5

Based on the latest BlackBerry 10 platform, Q5 features a 3.1-inch touch screen and QWERTY physical keyboard. It will be launched in July in the specific market in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. For the specific prices, the BlackBerry has not announced yet.

Top Five Features of Q5 listed by BlackBerry

1. Redesigned classic keyboard

Q5 uses a redesigned classic BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard, is designed to help users improve the typing speed and accuracy. Coupled with Instant Action quick feature, it will further enhance the speed of the users to perform a task.

2. Perfect combined with the Time Shift and Story Maker for perfect shot and share

Q5 will use the BlackBerry 10 platform’s Time Shift feature to perfectly taking pictures. And then use the Story Maker to make the photos, videos and music into a movie for sharing.

3. Instant switch

Q5 can instantly switch the BBM chat into BBM video mode. Users can even share the screen, whether it is pictures or a browser page.

4. BlackBerry Hub

With the BlackBerry Hub, all the user’s information and social talks can be viewed in a one-time slide; users don’t need to stop their works at hand.

5. BlackBerry World app store

It will recommend some apps based on the user buying experiences in the past, users can easily find and share the best applications. The amount of apps in BlackBerry World are over 100,000, users can enjoy any services through there.

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Some days it seems like everything is going wrong. On these days everything looks gray, black and barren. You don’t always need to know why you are in a bad mood in order to change it, you should just need to change your bad mood in advance. Here are four ways that can help.

1. Go outside.

Research found that being in nature can help to lift our mood and even lull our nervous system. When you are in a bad mood, just try visiting a park or get your body of water. Bring nature indoors by surrounding yourself with plants and flowers, getting a water fountain for your desk or getting a fish tank may be a good choice.

2. Listen to music

When you got a bad mood, get out your absolute favorite grouchy, willowy music and relish in tunes that match your mood for as long as it feels good. Then when you start feeling better, adjust your music to fit your brighter feelings. Or it’s said that the opposite way can also help. Try listening to uplifting music when you upset, and choose soothing music when you are anxious or worried about something.

A study has found that listening to classical music for just 10 minutes minimized participants’ negative moods. Besides, combining calming tunes with slow breathing also might help.

3. Embody your bad mood

Ask your bad mood how it wants to move and honor its impulses in safe. Some messy ways like smashing eggs, breaking old dishes, ripping up paper or punching pillows may also work little.

4. Assume control

People who feel like they have some control over their lives are happier than people who feel powerless. If there’s a particular situation that’s bothering you, identify the elements you can control.

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There is something that can be stolen by others, such as your wealth, your possessions, your youth, your health, your words, your rights, etc. Here are 6 things that no one can ever take from you.

1. Your uniqueness

You are the only one in the world that couldn’t be duplicated. This is a magic about you that is all your own. You deserve to wear a smile in your heart, which is not because of what you have or what you do, but who you are. Yeah, you are changing each day, but you are always amazing just as you are.

2. Your intuition

If you always think like everyone else, you aren’t really thinking. Just follow your intuition. Just do things that are meaningful to you. Never compare your life journey to someone else’s. Everyone has their own struggles, their own challenges, and a different path that they chose to get to where they are. What you are looking is already somewhere inside you.

3. Your passion

You should follow your passion and do something important that matters to you. It’s said that nothing you have passion for is ever a waste of time. So just find your passion and become it.

4. Your hope

What breaks you down is not the load but the way you carry it. The biggest obstacles that stand between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it, and the faith to believe it’s possible.

5. You knowledge

Character and wisdom are sculpted over time. They come with loss, lessons, and triumphs. They come after doubts, second guesses, and unknowns. Just hold them in hand and try using them.

6. Your life experiences

Your best experiences must the things about you overcome the biggest difficulties. Don’t let the bad past ruin your good future.

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Whether you are a business owner, entrepreneur or manager, as long as you want to succeed, you have to pay attention to the business landscape and your place in it. It is very important to access where you are now and how you can maintain, regain, or create a competitive edge over the crowd. Here are 5 things to consider if you want to stay competitive.

1. Branding

What do you do and what makes you different?

Branding is the buzzword of the day, maybe the decade. It is an important concept though it would possibly be overused. The primary value of branding is to clarify precisely what makes you different, what you have to offer that makes you stand out from the bulk of competitors in the marketplace.

2. Relationships

What do people care about and what are their needs?

It’s very important to know and understand people, and the key is to focus on quality over quantity. Current and prospective customers, as well as employees and professional connections have the most relevant opinions and useful feedback to offer. In a word, it’s imperative to communicate, listen, and build relationship with those who can impact the future of you business.

3. Leveraging

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Those most successful excel at squeezing the maximum value out of available time, money, and talent. Their strategy is to do what they do best and delegate or outsource the rest. Essentially, they know how to do more with less.

4. Growth

Where are the opportunities for growth?

Complacency and stagnation are red flags that portend a grim outlook for future success. It’s critical to keep one eye focused on growth, evolution, and innovation. If you don’t, you will fade into the crowd while other more forward thinking businesses surge ahead, leaving you in their dust.

5. Balance

What do you need? What are you neglecting? What would make you work and life more enjoyable?

Balanced priority in all aspects of our lives is to build a successful career or business, to achieve self-worth. Success and fulfillment requires that we pay attention to where we are, how we’re doing, and where we’d like to be.

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While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company’s wristwatch-style device is pushed to the peak of rumors. Apple, with its iconic brand and lucrative retail network, is poised to tap into the growing watch industry.

It’s rumoured that iWatch will has some description which would most likely synch up with an iPhone or iPad to give you updates on your wrist, allow you to control other devices and pull data from cloud.

Given all the buzz, you may believe that Apple iWatch would be a fact. However, if there is a device like what rumors said, it would push computing forward. An iWatch allows users to check messages and get alerts and directions without having to whip out their phones, it’s just an amazing thing. Under the whole rumours, here we selected top 5 features most people want in an iWatch.

1. Device pairing.

Apple was granted a patent for a technology recently, which would allow two-way transmission of data between a portable media device and an accessory. This technique opens the door to a watch that pairs with an iPhone so users could use a watch to say, view messages, calendar events, Facebook notifications, or get turn-by-turn directions.

2. Accelerometer.

Just take a look at those popular watches; iWatch could also be a health device that can keep track of things like steps taken and calories burned. OK, at least we hope that.

3. Curved display.

Another patent Apple filed in 2011 reveals the company is working on a flexible screen wrist band with a touch-sensitive curved display “across a portion of the wearable video device where the flexible display overlaps itself.” Sure, it’d be an aesthetic thing, but a curved high-resolution display would be — for lack of a better word — hot.

4. Rechargeable battery.

We hope Apple finds a way to make it rechargeable via Lightning cord or even partly by wrist movements like today’s kinetic watches.

5. All kinds of sizes.

The iWatch may have to come in different flavors to cater to different people. At least two sizes for men and ladies.

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One of the greatest freedoms in life is not caring what others think of you. Sometimes you need to remind yourself of who you are and what kind of person you want to be. The most wonderful thing you can do is follow your heart. Don’t just accept the safe and easy choice because you are afraid of what others will think. As long as you do it, everything will be well.

From now on, stop waiting for someone’s approval. Here’s why:

1. You only have one life to pursue your dreams

It is better to be failing (and learning) at doing something you love, rather than succeeding at doing something you hate. So please take the opportunity to chase your dreams. Even you will fail again and again, just stick to your dreams and hold true to your vision until it comes to life.

2. Others’ approval is just another opinion

Don’t let other people decide to your life. Never give up on your dreams, and remember who you are in your mind, no one is more aware than you. No one can underestimate you. You are the only one who can create your dreams and happiness.

3. The only opinion of you that really matters is your own

It is really difficult to give up on the desire to be perfect in the eyes of others and start become your true self. What you love determine your dreams, your dreams determine your actions, and your actions determine your destiny.

4. Some people will never recognized you

Do not let the negative opinions of others destroy your inner peace. There are two kinds of people in this world: people who consume your energies and creativity, and those who will give you energy and support your creation. Life isn’t about pleasing everyone, and happiness is to choose what you love.

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You’ll meet lots of types of guys on your path of finding the one who is right for you, but these three men you should leave them away. At the beginning when they trying to get your attention they might looks like a perfect decent man. But once they show their true colors, you will want to head for the hills.

The mooch

I am not kidding you, this is the guy who never seems to go anywhere with his wallet after he takes you out once or twice. Whether you are going to see a movie or go out for dinner, even just grabbing a piece of pizza, he will always plead poor and ask you to pay.

Paying for something is OK, but if you are with a guy who always has an aversion to spending his own money, you should just get out away while you can.

The lazy slob

This guy may charm you at first with his great ambitions and list of projects that he plans, but you will know he is just a big liar once you noticed what he did is nothing more than playing video games and order takeout. If he has nothing new to report in terms of job hunting or physical activity of any kind, and he always has stains on his clothing, get away or risk becoming his mother.

The overachiever

This guy is the opposite type to the lazy slob. While this guy looks great on paper (good job, high income, sweet condo), he will never be around to hang out with you. When he is free, he will talk only about work. He will only sweep you off your feet with expensive dinners and lavish gifts, but as soon as things get serious, he’ll go back to focusing solely on his career.

The big kid

Some guys never seem to grow up. They may be attractive at first sight, but you will be frustrating while dating with this guy. What they want to do is have fun. When you settle down and move in together, he’ll never want to talk about “boring” things like finances and chores.

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I believe most of us had long time of overtime work, countless sleepless nights, terribly high stress level and very high responsibility pressure. We were carrying too many expectations and the fear of failure on our shoulders. Of course, this is not the normal period. But even under normal circumstances, you will also encounter many disturbing moments and some difficult issues. It is really not a small challenge to maintain an active status in stressful working days.

Following are some tips that may be helpful to call the effective work pressure.

1. Don’t stay up

If you didn’t sleep well at night, it is most likely you will feel tired and irritated the next day.

2. Wake up with a smile

Tell yourself that today will be a nice day. In case of it won’t be, and you just start off with a gloomy mood, the day will certainly be terrible. Smile won’t lose you anything, right?

3. Taking exercise

Well, I know it is really hard to take exercises when you are busy to have a lot of work to do and feel tired. However, you should really leave yourself 30 minutes to stretch your body. It helps you feel much better.

4. Take a bath

As we all know, taking a shower helps freshen you up and make you feel completely awake and positive.

5. Have a healthy breakfast

I think you have heard this for countless times, however, it really works well.

6. Make a to-do list

List the things you need to do is important. This allows you visualize how much work you have for the day, as well as reminding you don’t forget to do something.

7. Do the most irritating things first

I always work in this way. Choose the most troublesome things from your list and then do them first. While you have enough energy you will cope with them easier and you will have less stressful tasks for the rest of the day.

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iPhone decorations or we can say the cases are the needed items for most of users for the decorating as well as protecting functions. But how to choose the right stylish iPhone case, there are several things you need to take into account before purchasing. The first principle is that there is only the most suitable one rather than the best one.

Material choices

In general, there are three main materials for iPhone cases: leather, metal and plastic. Every kind of material has its own advantages and disadvantages. There are four aspects you should take into account: touching sense, price, weight, and protection features. Leather and meat is better in touching in two different ways: soft and metallic, it depends on which kind of sense you prefer. If you decision is the above two, you’d better prepare more budget as they are almost two or more times than plastic in price.

To the plastic cases, there are also differences with different crafts. The dull polish and mirror surface is the most popular ones. My recommendation is the dull polish as the mirror surface has poor performances in other aspects.

There are also two other material but less popular than the above three: silicon and bling drill. But they are not on my recommend list for their ugly appearance and other features.

Scratch-resistance and other important features

It is obvious that the plastic also has the function of protecting and the plastic cases do the best job. The worst one is the leather case. How about the metal ones? It can protect the case well but to the case self, the scratched area is very obvious which will makes the case looks ugly. Another important thing is that the correct design and mobile communication supplier friendly.

Pattern and color

In general, many consumers only take these two factors while they purchasing. It is also the first thing when people choose the cases. But there is also few words to describe how to choose as it is different for every people. The only principle is choosing the most suitable ones for yourself: don’t use too bright-colored if you are working for very formal scenes.

Where to find the right ones?

Many online shops are available for example Amazon and Apple official online shop. My suggestion is the http://www.stylishiphonecase.net/, which is only selling iPhone cases.

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1. The exaggerator

We know that you just want us to know your former lover is shitty, or at the very least, know that you’re doing peachy, but writing overly enthusiastic statuses will blow your sad cover.

2. The Bitter Basher

Despite the fact that you consciously decide to live together with the person in a period of your life, but now the person is the most horrible scum of the universe. Well, even if he was/is that bad, you’ll probably look back and regret your social network tirades and constant bashing one day. Everyone has this time that want to blackball a crappy ex, but think better of it and bite their tongue. Just give yourself a month of time after a breakup. If you still want to throw stones after 4 weeks, then you can just have a try. Only if you know that it won’t look any less classless.

3. The complete mess

You have been wearing the clothes that a few days ago, and you’ve got no intention of changing. Your room is littered with boxes of partially eaten, delivery food which, mixed with your 72-hour-showerless body, creates an aroma that smells like hate. This is a very painful break up, causing you forgot your body maintenance. There’s nothing wrong with a recovery period. You can cry loudly in the fetal position, you can watch absurd amounts of TV in dimly lit rooms, and being implementers of super sad emotions. Sometimes it helps to be miserable for a bit as long as you remember that eventually life will move on.

4. The hopeless one

Almost everyone has had a similar experience, or assisted a friend who went through this phase and man, it is cruel. You feel that you should just lie on the bed like a four-legged pet. When you’ve revive the spirit away from a breakup, the last thing you want to do is start from scratch and get to know someone all over again. It just sounds like so much trouble. However, your breakup doesn’t mean that you are condemned to being forever alone. It’s just uneasy to see what is going to be fine when your heart is recently broken.