14 DAY TRIAL // Research In Motion has been long touting the features and capabilities of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphones, which are being showcased at its BlackBerry 10 Jam events around the world.
The company brought its new operating system and the dev alpha devices that it was loaded on to its meeting in London this week, where CrackBerry's James Richardson had the chance to play with such a handset and to take some photos with it.
All in all, it seems that the new platform release is capable to impress right from the start.
It comes with seamless integration of applications, enhanced support for screen gestures, and more, all capable of offering the user experience that any enthusiasts has been certainly dreaming of.
Moreover, RIM also focused on improving the visual appearance on the BlackBerry 10 OS, and to provide users with fast and easy access to more features and applications on the handset.
The on-screen keyboard is said to be working great, with options such as 'flicking' of the predicted words upwards, swiping across the keyboard to delete words, swiping downwards to switch to other screens, such as numbers and symbols, and the like.
The new OS will also make it easy for users to switch between applications, as well as to move from an email to a PDF attachment. It will also provide users with a new more visually appealing media player, and with faster access to apps that are important, right from the homescreen.
Overall, the OS is said to be in line with what other modern mobile platforms out there have to offer, and to be capable of enabling RIM to regain some of the market share it has been losing lately to rival solutions.
The first devices running under BlackBerry 10 are not expected until the fourth quarter of the year, and RIM might still make changes to the platform in the meantime. However, it appears that they might have finally got the recipe right, and that its fall might come to an end.
You can have a look at more photos with the BlackBerry 10 platform in this post on CrackBerry.
