BlackBerry OS 6.0 Video -Exhaustive Frame By Frame Breakdown

Okay, so you’ve watched that promo video recording for BlackBerry 6 announced at WES 2010, and think you got the full general gist of what’s new? Well, there’s a lot in there you mightiness have missed. Here I’ve gone through every teeny-tiny item and picked out what’s new and important about the new BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) OS. There’s only so much we can know about without a gimmick to try out for ourselves, but we can learn a whole thing blaze of a draw from this video recording. By and large, folks who rich person used BlackBerry in the past will get along fine, and the esthetic changes should lower the learning curve ball for those new to the chopine. There are, however, a few new features, some borrowed from other manufacturers, if slightly reworked. Hey, even the ad itself reminds me of Palm.

Anyway I’ve found more than a couple of surprises after comb through the clipping, and I think you volition too.

0:13 – Kicking things off, we rich person Ms. Hayhayhay McGirlfren’. Flick up to bring up the ikon blind. Yep, taken out of the Android playbook, but the tabs along the round top allow you to filter which apps appearance when you bring things up. More on that near the end of the video.

0:16 – The tabs continue even as you practice session down feather into subfolders, as shown here in the Media leaflet. I’m still not sure if that’s still a categorisation mechanics, or if it lets you navigate horizontally to other folders at the same level. Also worth noting is a preloaded YouTube app (which is awesome, since the browser streaming sucks and works about 10% of the meter for me), and a brand new Podcasts diligence.

0:27 – Most of the media app is pretty much the same, with the summation of larger icons next to entries. The search bar is distillery at the round top, you distillery rich person to plough through medicine categories like creative person, or album. The actual media player has had a bit of a face lift, and includes album artistic creation of not just what you’re currently listening to, but a roundabout of other related music, in this cause Will.i.am (of course). Left and right gestures let you pick out new tunes. I hear this is like CoverFlo, but wouldn’t know – couldn’t get me to touching iTunes or an iPhone with a cattleprod.

0:36 – This number is brand new. Extended Search allows you to quickly access related subject on YouTube, on the vane and on your gimmick from within the media app. Android already does this kind of sundry, so it’s nice to see on BlackBerry too.

Following that, we’re getting a look at the YouTube diligence, which is what you’d expect: a tailored app emulating the mobile website. It includes access to your account and hunt, as wellspring as the ability to pace, favorite, e-mail, and add YouTube videos to playlists.

0:49 – Now we get a looking at the pictures app. The round top level’s cutoff bar shows hunt and folder creation, and after navigating to a subfolder, you’ve got options for lean survey, search, slideshow, and a few unfamiliar icons – possibly for captions and deleting. Greg also noticed the first gen iPhone backdrop – second base icon from the top! Inside trick? Jab? Homage?

Of course, the star of this segment is multitouch zooming. Everybody “oo” and “aah”.

0:55 – What pops up next is what looks like the next multiplication contextual fare. On current BlackBerrys, you tin bring up a “short menu”, that lists all of the green tasks that can be done whereever you happen to be by simply clicking down on the trackpad or trackball. If you want more options, you strike the fare keystone. That system seems to have changed a bit in OS 6.0, by oblation large icons for green tasks, with the option of opening move up a fuller fare. From previous hands-on experience, we’re led to believe this new fare is launched via long pressure.

Oh yes, there’s more…