VIDEO: RIM Shows Off BlackBerry 6
BlackBerry manufacturer RIM has posted a preview video of BlackBerry 6, the latest iteration of the BlackBerry OS, which is scheduled for launch later this year.
As you can see from the video below, RIM has taken another small step away from the very businessy reputation of the BlackBerry, adding a dedicated YouTube application as well as a cover flow-like UI for music and media. You've also got a new WebKit browser with tabs support and a new quick menu for contacts, you just select a contact and then it brings up options to email, SMS, call, etc. There's an integrated stream that aggregates all updates from across your social networks, something that will prove popular with the web 2.0 people. There's also what looks like a new on screen keyboard though there's no telling if it's the ever so annoying tactile-touch present in the BlackBerry Storm.
Check the video below. You might need to watch it a couple of times to really see what's happening. The preview is done as a semi-transparent overlay with faceless people dancing in the background to the Black Eyed Peas; it's hard to watch the demo when there's a girl shaking what God gave her right behind it. It gets easier at 00:57 when she switches with a guy in a suit who's constantly fixing his tie and patting his lapels.
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THE most awesome advertisement ever.
GO BB!!!
I would love to see people on the subway in New York using their Blackberries like this. Wonder how long it would last before they got beat back into normalcy. There also isn't a lot of room to dance on a subway either.
That song is kinda ironic because its RIM that was "late" with Touch phones.
If partnered with likable phones this looks very smooth and fun to use. I've heard the Storm has largely been a failure, correct me if I'm wrong. But this interface looks cool and intuitive to use.
Did anyone see BB there? i saw some applications, which are standard, and someone is dancing...
I'll take the girl at the beginning. Oh, and the new OS update I guess...
My wife had a Storm. Tossed it for the Droid, it absolutely sucked. The quality just wasn't there. It literally exploded from a 240 gr. JHP.
What an embarrassing advertisement. I'm not surprised the "dancers" never revealed their faces. The shame!
The lyric "I'm so 2008" in the song is telling.
Oh dear, Apple patent lawyers are going to be a dancin' all over RIM
Looks like a lot was taken from the iPhone's OS
When is this being released? And will it only be released for the Storm and Storm 2? No curve/tour/pearl in non-touch version?
As an adult, let me officially say this is a horrible commercial/marketing video. This most certainly doesn't appeal to the adult business person in me at all. The hip-hop rap style music with the dancing "business woman" is too ghetto "tween" for my taste.
Although her gestures would insinuate the system is designed for touch screen phones so you can make finger gestures like you would on an iPhone.
I agree with with
The 'orange' dance was really cool.
Rim will make boatloads of money regardless because they are always geared toward corporate customers. While it is nice to have some kind of cool music interface, facebook, and twitter plugins, are useless to them and they will probably block them so the users won't use it. I know I will.
The problem with Rim is that they are still sort of a semi-closed system where people don't want to create apps for it.
Cool Ad!
... lame... or for the fanboys...
Looks like a lot was taken from the iPhone's OS
Apple pays RIM royalties for using numerous technologies.
Wow. "MeToo" in a business suit. Most exciting was the first dancer, but other than that it's a catch up. Much needed for BlackBerry, but not sure how exactly they could have been different as iPhone and Android are pushing a similar user experience and being too different from that could easily backfire.
And here I thought they were gonna show the actual device - FAIL.