After the smartphone market share narrowed, Waterloo-
Motion-based research is wrapping up a new line of BlackBerry 10 devices, which the company hopes will push its brand back to the top.
This week, the QMI Agency sneaked through the test models that app developers have been using since earlier this year.
There is no doubt that the entire front of the phone is now a touch screen, echoing Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices, which have robbed RIM of most of its market share in the past few years.
But unlike the iPhone, RIM's BB10 operating system is adaptive.
There are annoying lines on the keyboard, and you can even choose according to your own wording.
Have nicknames for certain people, places, or things? No problem.
It will even hone your own unique slang.
You can even switch languages (up to three).
With navigation between apps, browsing the internet, and viewing Facebook and Twitter, you can open up to eight active frames at the same time.
A new feature-peeping-allows you to browse upcoming emails
Swipe mail from left to right. Speaking of e-
The new BlackBerry Hub allows users to view their calendar, email
Mail, BBM, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are updated in the same browser.
Another new feature of the BlackBerry is Balance, which allows users to separate the personal and business functions of the phone.
Customers can change from their work profile to their personal account by simply swiping their cards.
Users can switch from their work profile to their personal account by simply swiping their cards.
The most promising development is the high-definition camera, just like the one on Apple's iPhone.
But a new feature-time shift-allows you to adjust your lens in seconds, so if there are two people in your lens, say, you can use the front and back images of each image separately to get the perfect image.
BlackBerry has also stepped up its efforts in Web browsing.
"We know we need to do some work," Sarah Bert, public relations manager, told the QMI Agency . ".
The new operating system uses html5 and "reader mode" to allow users to view text
Only articles can be used on any website.
The BlackBerry App World has also been fully transformed to provide customers with games, music, TV and movie downloads, allowing users to stream movies and TV shows directly to their TV.
Realizing the popularity of games developed for iPhone and Google's Android smartphone, BlackBerry reached out to developers.
The electronics industry giant is the company's biggest gaming partner.
For the spec geek, the resolution of the device is 1280 × 768.
And follow the touch screen mode, which expires on January.
30, RIM will bring BB10 to its traditional QWERTY keyboard model (
720x720 resolution)
Later next year.