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BlackBerry 10 OS announced, multi-tasking and gesture-based UI take centre stage

BlackBerry announced its brand new BlackBerry 10 OS at a slick launch event in New York. The new OS will be available on the new devices Z10 and Q10, but the big news is that the BlackBerry Playbook will It was a great moment at the event when BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said, “Two years ago we had to make a very serious decision: adopt someone else’s platform or build a whole new one from the ground up. At the event, Heins said, “It’s like a universal inbox on steroids.” Everything from email to text messages to BBM and GTalk pings will be seen here, but you can The BlackBerry Z10 is a full touchscreen phone running on BB10 A neat feature is the easy access gesture, called BlackBerry Peek, that lets you take a gander at the pending notifications or the status of your inbox. BlackBerry CEO showing off the new BlackBerry Remember app The Camera app looks pretty standard with tap to focus, but BlackBerry has introduced the Time Shift feature, which clicks several photos in burst mode and lets you go back in time to pick the image where a subject hasn’t blinked or missed the moment. The new BlackBerry 10 browser, the company claims, sets the industry benchmark for HTML5 support on smartphones and supports multiple tabs, private browsing, a reader mode, and lets users share content easily.

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