Swipe to the left of this and you will see a very familiar sight, rows and columns of app icons, similar to Android and iOS. It's BB10's way of handling multitasking and app switching, and works as it is meant to but doesn't look all that appealing.Īpps can be easily killed by tapping a small 'X' in the bottom right hand corner of each pane. At the centre is the home screen which shows up to eight of your most recent apps, which are running in the background.
The OS is split into three main sections. Normally it gives you access to an app's settings or if you are on one of the home screens, it gives you access to the likes of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and notification settings.
If it is, you can complete the action by swiping all the way right, or if not you can return your finger to the centre of the screen and continue what you were doing.Ī swipe down from the top of the screen will bring up a context menu depending on which part of the OS you are in or which app you have open. This action allows you a glimpse at your accounts to see if the email that just came through is important or not. Other gestures include what BlackBerry calls Peek, where a swipe up and to the right will show you the Hub, which is where all your emails, messages, tweets etc are collected in a single place. It's a gesture which has becomes second nature very quickly, indeed, picking up an Android smartphone after using BB10 for a few days I found I was trying to use the same gesture to navigate back to the home screen on that phone too.īlackBerry has integrated the swipes and gestures so much that even unlocking the home screen can be done using a swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Carrying out this gesture anywhere in the system will bring you back to the home screen. The whole UI is controlled using a small number gestures or swipes, the most impiortant of which is a swipe up from the bottom of the screen. BlackBerry sees this as a new start for the company, and there is no doubting BlackBerry 10 is a world away from anything the company has done before, but is it enough?
The platform was launched last week along with two smartphones which will run the new OS, as well as a purported 70,000 apps in the BlackBerry World store. (Credit: Reuters)īlackBerry is pinning the future of the company - and that of its 16,000 employees - on BlackBerry 10, a completely re-imagined operating system built from the ground up to try and compete with Android and iOS. BlackBerry 10 running on the company's flagship smartphone the Z10.
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