Blackberry makers Rim have released a video revealing their new Blackberry operating system “OS 6”. I’ve tried to gather as much information from the video as possible but I’ve had to mute it as too much “boom, boom, pow” could probably hypnotise you. If it doesn’t then they’ve recruited gyrating, guesturing and tie straightening dancers to finish the job.
In case you were like me and got distracted; here is what I’ve gathered:
Features multi-touch for touchscreen but OS 6 will be available on both touchscreen and keypad phones. It looks to be more intuitive and has a customisable home-screen with different pages accessible by flicking in different directions.
Scrolling also features “Rubber-banding” which I presume means that when you accidently scroll a little bit too far it boings back. I could be wrong.
It also features pop up menus showing the functions that appear to be short-smart-shortcut menus with big icons.
The graphics are slicker and they appear to have integrated youtube into the OS.
Media Player gets a makeover and features an album “cover flow” style music organizer so you can flick through the album artwork and click on them to play.
The new inbox is basically the same old familiar inbox except with bigger icons to differentiate between email, twitter, facebook etc. messages and it also includes integrated RSS feeds. From what I can tell; emails now support image thumbnails.
The universal search looks quite handy searching contacts, calender, emails, Internet, social feeds etc all from one search bar on the home-screen.
There’s a new app for intergrating multiple social feeds to ensure you can never ever ever escape!!!
It also includes the Web-Kit based browser (better than the current one with widgets, fast panning and zooming and full HTML5 support and tabs)
It’s thought that it might be available from July but it’s not yet known whether current handset owners will be able to update their firmware to the new OS.
