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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

New RIM OS BlackBerry 10 is coming

It seems that the world have already forget the blackberry. People in the globe put their eyes on android and ios, especially for the apple products. With the Apple press conference at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center on September 12, iPhone 5 is the hot topic since then. Now iPhone 5 hit 5 million sales since then. Not any other smartphones can compare with it, it is really amazing.

After about one year’s delay, The RIM finally open its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system at the company's annual developer conference to get another chance to prove their worth , which was on Sept 25,2012 in San Jose, Calif. But people have to wait at least 5 months to see the new blackberry products.

Monday, July 23, 2012

BlackBerry 10 beta release gets Siri-like voice command feature

Research In Motion (RIM) recently released an update to their developer alpha devices for BlackBerry 10 OS. One of the biggest features in the new build of BlackBerry 10 was the voice command feature with an operator whose voice sounds very similar to Apple’s Siri.

The new voice command feature is accessed by pressing the voice command button set between the two volume buttons in the developer alpha devices. It is still an early beta build so the voice command has limited functionality, but N4BB demonstrates that it has a universal search function, apart from calling and sending text messages. It may not yet be ready for prime time use, but it sounds very similar to Siri from Apple’s iPhone.

The voice command technology is speculated to be powered by Nuance, the same company that Apple acquired Siri from.

According to earlier reports, RIM had confirmed that BlackBerry 10 will include a video chat feature through RIM's popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service. This didn’t come as a surprise, considering that the BlackBerry PlayBook also has a Video Chat feature and the Dev Alpha devices being handed out to developers had front facing cameras. This was the first time RIM confirmed that there would be Video Chat available on BBM.