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How to use BlackBerry 10 gestures

Ty Williams — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:43:50 +0000

To help you interact with a BlackBerry 10 smartphone, you’ll need to learn several gestures that I’ve listed below. For a visual overview, check out the BlackBerry Z10 How To Demos Touch Screen Gestures Overview

Peek and/or Access BlackBerry Hub – All of your email, text messages, social networking notifications, missed calls, and voice mail messages can be found in the BlackBerry Hub. To peek at notifications, from the bottom of the screen, slide your finger up just a little bit and the view shrinks to show your notifications. To get to the BlackBerry Hub continue sliding your finger to the right. To return to what you were doing originally, slide your finger back to the left.

Unified Inbox is Now BlackBerry Hub, and It Gets Better from There [VIDEO]

Donny Halliwell — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:00:06 +0000

Having a unified inbox on your BlackBerry smartphone makes life easy for you; it simplifies the way you manage your email accounts, Twitter feeds, Facebook updates and more. But it gets even better with the new BlackBerry 10 smartphones. A few weeks back we gave you a preview of the BlackBerry Hub in BlackBerry 10. This week I’ve been at CES and I caught up with Vivek Bhardwaj to take a deeper dive into some of the features.

[ YouTube link for mobile viewing ]

Now that we’ve taken a quick look at some of the more advanced features of the hub,I wanted to go a step further and tell you its similarities and differences compared to the unified inbox technology offered on current BlackBerry devices.

Unified Inbox versus BlackBerry Hub: Similarities – If you are currently using your device’s unified inbox as your base of operations on BlackBerry OS 6 devices and up, I have great news: BlackBerry Hub is still the messaging and communications center for new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, and it’s available in real time.

Unified Inbox versus BlackBerry Hub: Differences – When Thorsten Heins said “BlackBerry Hub is not just a unified inbox,” he wasn’t kidding. By using BlackBerry Flow to layer open emails, attachments, or BlackBerry apps over the top of the Hub, you can quickly “peek” back as needed to view all the apps you’re currently using. It’s as much about the accessibility of your data as it is the integration of your data.

The bottom line is that unified inbox works, and works well. However, the goal of BlackBerry 10 is to help keep BlackBerry smartphone users moving forward. It’s an exciting time.

Speaking of excitement, share yours in the comments along with any questions or concerns.

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BlackBerry Fans Get Hands-On BlackBerry 10 Demo [VIDEO]

Kerri B. — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:26:30 +0000

While Donny was in New York showing off BlackBerry 10, we brought 20 of our biggest BlackBerry fans to our headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario for a sneak peek at BlackBerry 10. They had an opportunity to meet and greet with the BlackBerry Social Media team but also got the chance to hear about BlackBerry 10 firsthand from Product and Marketing Managers working directly on the products. They even had a surprise visit from our CEO, Thorsten Heins.

(Rajesh Kutty – @kuttysark with Thorsten Heins)

After an exciting and high energy day for everyone involved (both the fans and our team) here’s a look at what some of them had to say about BlackBerry 10:

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They’re definitely excited and proud to be on Team BlackBerry – what about you? What features are you looking forward to for BlackBerry 10?

BlackBerry 10 Keyboard – Vivek Bhardwaj Gives us the Scoop [VIDEO]

Donny Halliwell — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:00:06 +0000

It’s no secret that BlackBerry fans love their keyboards, and for BlackBerry 10 we wanted to make sure that the typing experience is unmatched. Who better to show us around the keyboard than Vivek Bhardwaj, our Head of Software Portfolio and demo man extraordinaire!

He explained that we not only wanted to design the keyboard to be BlackBerry visually, but also to show the thought we’ve put into innovations in touch screen typing. At BlackBerry Jam Americas he told me that his favorite feature was the ability to switch between languages. Now, he’s got a new favorite – the spacebar. We’ll let him explain:

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Basically, if you miss hitting the spacebar as you type, the keyboard is designed to recognize that and automatically add spaces between your words when you hit it next. This allows you to keep your train of thought and keep typing without having to go back and add spaces. Typing without interruption? Count me in.

And for those of you who love a physical keyboard, we’ll have both full touch and QWERTY models for BlackBerry 10. Let us know what you think of the BlackBerry 10 keyboard below – are you going to go QWERTY or full touch?

Fun with BlackBerry 10: BlackBerry Flow in Action [VIDEO]

Donny Halliwell — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:31:49 +0000

The countdown is on for the BlackBerry® 10 launch event on January 30th, 2013, and last week we asked you to vote for the BlackBerry 10 feature you’re most excited for. When I last checked on the results, you were most excited about BlackBerry Flow.

To show my dedication to you, #TeamBlackBerry, I set out to make a new video for the Inside BlackBerry Blog that shows off BlackBerry Flow with a series of common tasks being performed one-handed. I faced a small problem, though – with all the BlackBerry 10 experts on the road talking to partners and press, it’s been hard to find time in their busy schedules. So I tracked down my friend and BlackBerry 10 expert Jeff and, ahem, stole a bit of his time to show me a bit more about Flow.

Here’s how it went down:

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Disclaimer – No Jeffs were harmed in the making of this video. We spent a few hours filming as a bit of fun for our amazing fans eagerly awaiting launch.

Let us know what you think about BlackBerry 10 in the comments below – and stay tuned to the Inside BlackBerry Blog for updates.