In a special event held in many cities worldwide, Blackberry unveiled the Blackberry 10 OS. Their new revamped, reengineered OS which brings a whole new Blackberry experience to the users. As you might know, Blackberry has been losing market share to iPhone and Android recently and now they’re making a come back with two new phones, the Z10 and the Q10. RIM is gone too, from now on the company is simply called Blackberry. The announcement went out simultaneously around the world.
The Z10 is the all touch one. 4.2 inch display at 1280×768, 1.5Ghz dual core, 2GB RAM, 16GB storage plus a microSD slot, 8MP camera with 2MP in front. The Q10 keeps the proper keyboard under a square 3.1 inch screen, but thats only expected in the second quarter.
Navigation is all swiping gestures, thats how the whole OS works. The Hub piles your mail, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn into one place, Balance keeps your work stuff away from your personal stuff, and BBM does voice and video now!! Blackberry World opens with over 70,000 apps and yes, Skype, Whatsapp and Angry Birds are in there.
Sales start today in the UK. Canada gets it on February 5th and the UAE on February 10th at Dh2,599 unsubsidised, on du and Etisalat. The US has to wait till March. We’ll get our hands on one soon, so stay tuned.
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