Gadgetory

hi this is dieter bohn for the verge and today a blackberry world rumor has given us a sneak peek at blackberry 10 the new operating system that should be out later this year now room didn't show us everything about the OS we did get to see a few elements so we know for example that the home screen consists of four icons that display apps and then at the very bottom there's a phone search and camera app we know that when you go into an app you can swipe up from the bottom to go back straight to the home screen and when you're inside any app you can swipe from the right just a little bit to see your notifications and then swipe all the way to the right to jump directly into the messaging app for email and other types of messaging within the messaging app you can of course tap it a message to go in and then you swipe to the right to go up a level and go back to your inbox or back to your accounts list in a way that's very similar to the current playbook 2 point 0 OS or frankly it looks quite a bit like webos three point 0 unfortunately we don't have a very clear picture of what multitasking looks like in general with switching between apps it seems like they might be stacked on top of each other or you might just need to go to the home screen but we do know that RIM intends for everything to quote flow unquote between different apps and rim is very clear and saying that every app is running all the time on the device and it's not pausing stuff in the background we also got a glimpse at the camera app on blackberry 10 and what's really interesting about that is it's a it's sort of live all of the time and when you take a shot you can actually go into the picture and scroll back and forward in time to say get rid of a second where somebody blink to get the second where they didn't blink we also spent a lot of time showing off the keyboard it is a standard multitouch keyboard but rims built a lot of technology into it it will detect where you press for a letter so that it can adjust to your own typing habits it has a very accurate auto prediction for words and in fact it will show word suggestions above certain letters so that if you're typing one handed you can simply swipe up from an individual letter to throw that word directly into what you're typing and if you don't like it you can swipe back to quickly delete a word other than that we didn't see a whole lot of different pieces we saw that there is a you know video calling we saw a button for that and we also saw briefly that RIM was able to stream video wire mostly from the blackberry 10 developer alpha device to a television which is functionality that was already there in the PlayBook in all it looks like blackberry 10 is going to be a new kind of user interface although we haven't seen all of the pieces yet it's definitely going to be different from playbook to point o and it doesn't look like it's going to be identical to anything else that's out there right now