Gadgetory

hi this is dieter bohn for the virgin we were looking at the blackberry 10 dev alpha developer prototype this of course is the device that rim is handing out to all the developers here at the blackberry jam conference and as you can see it looks exactly like a miniature playbook the industrial design is very much the same the specs on it are also virtually identical it has a 4 point 2 inch screen and it's running the PlayBook 2.1 OS slightly modified to support the api's and developer hooks for playbook 10 or I'm sorry blackberry 10 but honestly there's no apps on here by default is just the browser the camera and a setup out in terms of capabilities of hardware the only new additions are the the mobile networking it runs on hspa+ which in the menu bar they call 4g which is hilarious and a little bit sad and then the other addition is NFC and we expect that we'll be seeing a lot more to NFC and blackberry 10 in the near future other than that it's a very simple bare-bones device it's simply meant for developers to be able to load their apps and test them for blackberry 10 however just like the original playbook the developer alpha device is able to run android apps with the Android runtime and so you can see here this developer has loaded up a bunch of Android apps and we can take a look at the performance here we'll load up angry birds give it a moment to load and it does take a bit to load here but it is running on the Android runtime on how to play work but get it going so that's the blackberry dev alpha it's never going to see consumer release it's only for developers but it's pretty powerful it's about the same specs as the playbook and hopefully it'll get a lot of developers to make blackberry 10 apps