BGR reports, “The new browser that RIM has skinned up, complete with tab switching, new favorites, and multitouch. Yes, multitouch. The browser looks like it’s coming along quite nicely, all WebKit!”
“RIM has finally implemented system-wide kinetic scrolling with rubberbanding,” BGR reports. “This makes the experience a bit more fluid when scrolling through lists, web pages, emails, and the like. There is also multitouch system-wide, from the web browser to the photos application, and yes, pinch to zoom is in there.”
BGR reports, “The photos application we saw looks quite a bit like the iPhone’s layout, big tiled square photos that appear in thumbnail view with very small borders, and you can flick that list up or down to navigate… The usual top and bottom UI bars are still here, but if you tap once, just like the iPhone, that view will hide and you’ll have a fullscreen shot of the picture you’re looking at. There was pinch to zoom on the touch screen device we saw (sorry, we can’t comment on the device), but there was absolutely no fluidity when panning around photos. That’s something a lot of manufacturers miss… We have been told BlackBerry OS 6.0 will be in market in the June / July timeframe.”
Full article, with screenshots, here.
MacDailyNews Take: RIM is not alone; Apple long ago beat the pride out of this sort of outclassed also-rans.
