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Get touchy with BlackBerry 10 - CNET Update

2012-05-01
it's time to get touchy with blackberry bite your nails over courtroom drama and share your spleen on Facebook I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the next blackberry phone will not have a physical keyboard instead it will be entirely touchscreen but it's not a clicky touchscreen like the storm was research in motion showed off the new blackberry 10 operating system at the blackberry world conference in orlando and what you're seeing here is the new OS on a prototype sample model for developers blackberry 10 OS will have new camera software it'll also handle multitasking apps but most noteworthy is how the keyboard works Cena editors got their fingers on it but well we can't show you because they didn't allow press to take video or photos of the on-screen keyboard so use your imagination and picture this it will display suggested words above the letter it thinks you're most likely to type next one of our editors said it was as if the device was reading his mind and eventually the keyboard will learn how you tap keys and where you tend to place your fingers you won't see a new device until the end of the year but if you're a loyal blackberry fan who's addicted to that physical keyboard sorry the first devices will be all touchscreen is it the right move for blackberry send me your thoughts by making a quick video message on tout or right to update at cnet com the best comments could make it on the show in other news we're watching on Facebook you can now display if you're an organ donor on your timeline to raise awareness facebook also added links to make it easy to sign up to become an organ donor on tuesday voting begins for the doodle for google contest young students submitted their own creative Google logo drawings based on the theme of traveling in time and you can vote on which will become a real doodle the winner also takes home a scholarship it's now up to a San Francisco jury to decide whether Google should have paid Oracle when it use Java programming language to build the Android operating system Google argued that it used java's API fairly and shouldn't have to pay it could take as long as a week for the jury to reach a decision and today's appt to watch is rap you can find it on Android iOS and on web it connects with your Facebook page pulls an info on your friends birthdays and lets you send them free gift cards for my friend with an upcoming birthday i was able to Center five dollars to the gap Sephora hmm and a number of other retailers and those retailers pay for it they consider it an easy way to get your friend into the store I could stick with the free amount offered or choose to add more to make it a bigger gift card if you like the idea also check out karma it's another app for sending gifts to your Facebook friends at your tech news update for today stay updated on all the latest news at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey
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