At WES 2010 on Tuesday, RIM announced a lot more details about the next version of its OS platform, which it’s now officially calling “BlackBerry 6,” and provided a demo of the new software in action.
Here is a punch list of the new features:
- Updated GUI that extends the black OS 5 theme with new animations and transitions
- New home screen
- New Web browser based on Webkit, with multiple sessions and tabbed browsing
- Multiple views in the UI for apps (such as All, Favorites, Media, Downloads)
- New context-sensitive pop-up menus
- Multi-touch, including pinch-to-zoom in Web browser and photos
- Universal search
- New app that will pull in feeds from both RSS and social media
- New media player
- Most of BlackBerry’s core apps redesigned for the new platform
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