RIM has during his own event BlackBerry World, the new operating system BlackBerry 10 was officially announced. The QNX based software will need the old BlackBerry OS to follow up and coming early next year.
During the presentation of the new OS was a prototype of a BlackBerry 10-powered smartphone presented by RIM ceo Thorsten Heins. At the demonstration it became clear that on the homescreen of the new operating system four widgets can be placed. Notifications are located on the right side of the screen, and with a swipebeweging retrieved.
When navigating through apps are also user actions in the small on the right side is displayed, and then view it in full screen can be opened. An example of this is the opening of a message in the mail app. This creates a ‘flow’ which allow users to right sweep when they take a application use, says Heins. According to the ceo open applications are not closed: everything in the background continue to run.
The keyboard on BlackBerry 10 also supports gestures. With a flick of a typed word to be removed. Also, RIM has a new woordvoorspellingssysteem built-in. Here are the predicted words above a certain letter is displayed, and then the user can directly select.
The software of the camera has a timelapse feature that allows the user to zoom in on a particular part of the photograph, as a moment later or earlier, select. So, for example, the image of a second earlier to be selected, a feature that can be used as the image a person shows that during the taking of the photo, the eyes blinked.
From the presentation it became clear that RIM’s new operating system not only on smartphones and tablets. According to Heins, there may be many different devices to be controlled, which during the demonstration, a car equipped with BlackBerry 10 hardware was shown.
About the availability of the first mobile devices with BlackBerry 10 were very few details announced. Had RIM already know that the first BlackBerry with the new OS at the end of the year to be released. Initially, there are already devices to come out, but problems in the development caused a delay.
BlackBerry 10 first appeared on the scene during a private event in October 2011. The OS was BBX, but had to be renamed because of infringement on the trademark rights of another company.
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