I attended the latest BlackBerry 10 Jam developer conference held in Bangkok last week. With less than two months until its official unveiling on Jan. 30, 2013, I found the company more open to demonstrating some of the key elements of its brand new operating system (OS), though, what it showed was by no means the final user interface (UI).At BlackBerry 10 Jam in Bangkok.
Here are my thoughts on the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform based on what I’ve seen.
Integration and flowUnlike a traditional smartphone, key tasks are no longer kept within silos but are integrated across apps. All activities culminate at the BlackBerry Hub, which contains important information such as signal strength and time. RIM has exploited the multi-threaded capabilities of the underlying QNX kernel to let users “peek” or access the Hub from any app. If anything, BlackBerry 10 can be said as more “touch” than the iOS or Android platforms.
Social is also at the core of the new OS, and is deeply integrated into the platform. For example, photos and data harvested from social networks–including LinkedIn profiles–are automatically extracted and used to build a comprehensive user profile.
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