Company Research in Motion (RIM) at the presentation on Wednesday, January 30, introduced BlackBerry 10 - the new operating system for mobile devices, BlackBerry. Broadcast of the event was carried out on the site BlackBerry.
BlackBerry 10, in contrast to previous versions of BlackBerry OS, based on the platform of QNX, the rights to which RIM acquired in 2010.
Among the features of the new OS - multitasking, designed for gesture control interface, "smart keyboard" (can predict what word the user wants to enter) and the notification bar, which received data from BBM, email and social networks.
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) - software for instant messaging, which has become a feature of smartphones BlackBerry - also update: it now supports voice and video, in addition, through BBM users cmogut show each other the contents of their screens.
Based on BlackBerry 10 smartphones will run BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10. The first device the company calls a "full-touch", the second unit is equipped with QWERTY-keyboard. Both smartphones are involved dual-core processors Snapdragon.
Z10 will be available in Canada and the UK over the weekend, and in the U.S. will be in mid-March, according to The Wall Street Journal, without giving details about other countries. The device with a three year contract in Canada will cost $ 150, and no contract - $ 600. The price of Q10 is not disclosed.
Set 10 for BlackBerry devices BlackBerry, manufactured before 2013, you can not.
Device application on BlackBerry 10 will collect in store BlackBerry World. RIM said that it already has over 70,000 programs. In addition to games, utilities and entertainment apps, BlackBerry World contains music, movies and TV series.
Z10 and Q10 - The first device RIM released after the "break" in length and a half years. BlackBerry devices have been distributed in the second half of the 2000s, but then the company lost market devices on iOS and Android. Now the share of BlackBerry OS in the world a little more than one percent.