BlackBerry OS 6.0 Maybe Leaked, New Direction for RIM?
March 19th, 2010 by Marc Flores 
A few weeks ago, BBLeaks got its hands on snapshots of the new BlackBerry slider device. It looks like a new direction for RIM with a QWERTY/touchscreen hybrid. Now, the same folks who brought those images say they have BlackBerry OS 6.0 screenshots. From what we can tell based on these screens, RIM may be focusing on touchscreen-based interfaces. While the images show that BlackBerry is still keeping with its style and design, the layout and arrangement of widgets signal a move toward the future. Will this be enough to catch up with the likes of Android, Windows Phone 7, and webOS?
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March 19th, 2010 at 10:54 am
not a bad start. RIM better keep up with the cool kids or they could become the next giant of the smartphone genre to get knocked out of the lead.
still don’t know why RIM didn’t just make the Storm 2 a slider w/a real qwerty keyboard (long way slider versus portrait slider). would have sold like hotcakes w/crack
March 19th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Really? I’m not sure what “catching up” the company that owns almost 50% of the smartphone market has to do. The pillar of that ownership is its business customer-base, who could give a crap about having a twitter feed surfaced. What RIM needs to do is simply position one or two devices in the adjacent smartphone use-markets that the iPhone and Android handsets occupy to pick up marginal percentages of that market share, and continue to defend their business-base. With Microsoft showing little concern for its business users so far with what they have shown of Windows Mobile 7 (the Office Hub might be enough, but word on its features is scarce), RIM is pretty much poised to have almost zero serious competition in the business smartphone user marketplace. The GUI looks interesting; I just hope that it will be deployed in the same market strata as the Storm and not as their core offering.
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