RIM's smartphone OS gets a whizzy makeover.
With all the excitement around iPhone OS 4 in recent weeks, it's easy to forget that rival smartphone platforms are also due for upgrades this year. Like BlackBerry.
Tech site Boy Genius Report has published comprehensive details and screenshots of the next-generation BlackBerry operating system, 6.0, which it says will be available this June or July.
The screenshots show a spruced-up homescreen, RIM's new WebKit-based mobile browser, and a significantly improved music player application.
The browser in particular looks like a big leap over BlackBerry's much-maligned current app for web surfing.
The site also claims that multi-touch input works throughout the OS, including pinch-to-zoom within its browser.
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The new OS may be officially unveiled at RIM's WES 2010 conference next week. As may be a new clamshell-shaped BlackBerry handset, leaked shots of which have already made their way onto, yes, Boy Genius Report.
