Research In Motion's new chief executive unveiled Tuesday a prototype BlackBerry powered by revamped operating system. The company has pinned its future on the software.
Thorsten Heins, who took the CEO job in January, revealed features of the BlackBerry 10 operating system running on a prototype device at the company's BlackBerry World conference in Orlando. He provided no update on the software's launch date.
Heins, who is trying to rally developers to make applications for the new operating system, promised that each developer at the conference will go home with the prototype BlackBerry. In a speech that was broadcast on the company's BlackBerry World website, Heins stressed that the device is not the finished product.
The once iconic company has had difficulty competing with flashier, consumer-oriented phones such as Apple's iPhone and models that run Google's Android software.
The camera on the Dev Alpha device allows a user to go back and forth in a photo shoot to pick the best image from a session, such as a person with eyes open rather than closed.
RIM also posted a a 47-second video (see below) on YouTube that shows the new swipe features in BB 10, the predictive text capability and the photo shooting feature.
Developers will use the Dev Alpha device and the the new developer tools to build apps for the new BlackBerry 10.
RIM released a BlackBerry 10 native software developer kit as well as the Cascades SDK, to allow developers to build graphics apps in C/C++ using Qt Markup Language. RIM offered explanations of the tools via its developer blog on both the BB 10 native SDK and the BlackBerry 10 Cascades, for its user interface.
Cascades was created by The Astonishing Tribe, a software company that RIM purchased in 2010. It offers developers many shortcuts to pick out a certain user interface effects, which will automatically create code to be written into their apps.
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