RIM unveils the stunning Blackberry 6 along with Blackberry Torch 9800 for business customers

RIM unveils the stunning Blackberry 6 along  with Blackberry Torch 9800 for business customers

RIM has fulfilled the expectations by ushering the much awaited BlackBerry 6 that provides stunning, improvised, responsive and upgraded modern operating system. BlackBerry 6 is launched on the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and introduced a number of new features, subtle variations, and performance improvements, along with a redesigned user interface that is hell bent on ensuring the BlackBerry experience more tangible, engaging and enjoyable.

The key thrust in Blackberry 6 is to design the OS with a new look and feel freshness and approach as well as provide more user-friendly, but power-packed features.

New Setup Wizard option

The user is whisked into a short video tutorial before going straight into set up, personalization, for new ring tones and wall papers, along with Help & Tutorial section.

Revamped Start page and Navigation experience

The BlackBerry Browser start page is made efficient and has implemented a single URL, and search entry box to ensure that users find websites quickly. Bookmarks of favorite sites can be saved directly to the Home Screen.

Universal Search

The outstanding feature, perhaps addictive, of BlackBerry 6 is the inclusion of Universal Search option which enables instant search to everything in the device, including Google and YouTube search by default.

Enhanced User Interface with intuitive and fluid designs

The revamped BB 6 smartphone has been easier than ever to use and is endowed with new contextual pop-up menus, attractive visuals, easy multitasking through Application Switcher and smart organization with advanced options.

New Tabbed Browser for fast, rich web browsing and improved user interface

The new browser provides advanced widgets for seamless integration with the browser and core native applications. Never before browsing in BlackBerry has been made easy and quick with fast page loading and tabbed browsing that enables opening of multiple web pages at once. RIM has powered a new WebKit rendering engine in the BlackBerry 6 operating system that provides faster and more robust HTML and JavaScript rendering performance.

Superior Multimedia apps support

The BlackBerry 6 smartphone integrates GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G and 8 GB with expandable memory up to 32 GB and a 3.2” HVGA+ display. It also includes a 5 megapixel camera, with autofocus, digital zoom and the face recognition. BlackBerry 6 promises a streamlined and intuitive experience with album art in the user interface, new camera Scene modes, sharing, with two new built in apps, Podcasts and YouTube.

Social feeds and RSS feeds Apps

BlackBerry 6 has integrated the new social apps, such as AIM, BB Messenger, Twitter, Facebook and more, and RSS feeds which enables to type updates and distribute it to networks. The Social Feeds application allows integrating updates on contacts from social networks and IM clients under one roof for a richer, more direct experience.  Social Feeds application includes RSS Feeds that allows you add and read news aggregations from favorite websites.

Social Planning, advanced Messaging and Location sharing

Organizing Messages is in the heart of the BlackBerry smartphone experience and the BlackBerry Torch smartphone supports next generation messaging features of AT&T for SMS and MMS communication which includes group messaging for social meetings, informal get-togethers and new location feature for easy search for points of interests.

Burgeoning BlackBerry Apps and developer support

The BlackBerry App World catalog currently contains over 5,000 apps across various categories like Business, Utilities, Games, Entertainment, Productivity, and Music and Audio with 2,000 titles and 1200 Reference & eBooks.

RIM is providing tools for developer community for the growth of catalog of apps and games for BlackBerry users. Apart from Java SDK, RIM has released another SDK based on web technologies that allows developers to build apps with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. The future growth to BlackBerry apps catalog revolves on making developers feel at ease to easily port over their applications from other platforms to the BlackBerry platform.

Pricing and Availability

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is available for $199.99 along with 2-year service agreement as part of deal with AT&T.