BlackBerry OS 6.0 images, showing off what RIM’s next gen smartphone software could look like, have leaked out online. Gone is the static homescreen of old, in favour of widgets and live updates, but what phone is this set to run on?
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BBLeaks has posted images of what it claims are shots of BlackBerry OS 6.0 in action, from a reliable source, and as you can see, they’re a world away from the current BlackBerry OS 5.0.
Although calendar and email alerts are still present, they take a backseat in the BlackBerry OS 6.0 homescreen, with attractive widgets showing updates and breaking news headlines, presumably using push notifications RIM recently opened up to all developers.
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A second BlackBerry OS 6.0 image appears to indicate that the widgets can then be expanded to fill up half of the homescreen when clicked on, in this instance revealing a graph of the weather forecast in more detail. Tantalisingly, it also shows a Twitter update possibly scrolling along the middle, in more detail than can currently be seen on OS 5.0 with the Twitter for BlackBerry beta app installed.
Perhaps most interestingly though, the BlackBerry OS 6.0 images here show that RIM is priming this to work on a phone with a screen ratio and resolution similar to the BlackBerry Storm, rather than its traditional letterbox phones with QWERTY keyboards. Is it the BlackBerry Storm 3? The fabled BlackBerry slider? We’ll keep you in the loop on any more details.
Out TBC | £TBC | BlackBerry (Via BBLeaks)
