BlackBerry CDMA devices outed. BB6.1 to have "Liquid Graphics" HW OS Acceleration

[DivideBYZero]

New Bold 9000 style Bold Touch device looks great with a touch screen and 287dpi display, and there will be two touch only devices, coming to the Curve line for the first time in the Curve Touch and also in the un-namned Monaco. Most devices in the roadmap will have NFC built in, with NFC coming to the next gen Sedona Curve first.

The most intersting part for me is the "Liquid Graphics" in BB6.1. The OS will be using OpenGL for the native window manager and apps. They're claiming a <0.3% UI lag target for core apps and <1% for all apps. At under 150ms this should be inperceptable.

The end of lag is nigh!

 

[MrX8503]

"Liquid Graphics" lol, almost like "Retina Display"

Anyway, any phone that strives to be lag free gets a thumbs up in my book. This is what Android is really lacking and it would be surprising to see RIM reach GPU acceleration before Google.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Why is it taking so long for these OSes to have HW acceleration?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Why is it taking so long for these OSes to have HW acceleration?

It's harder to optimize for tons of hardware than the have a single piece of hardware to optimize specifically for.

Anyway, Honeycomb has Hardware acceleration, so meh.

 

[SAWYER]

I love blackberries! My Curve is the best damn phone I have ever had

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It's harder to optimize for tons of hardware than the have a single piece of hardware to optimize specifically for.

Anyway, Honeycomb has Hardware acceleration, so meh.

I didn't think about that. But that does mean that Google will probably only enable HW acceleration in future versions which means the phone manufacturers will begin to create phones more similar in hardware.

 

[DivideBYZero]

I didn't think about that. But that does mean that Google will probably only enable HW acceleration in future versions which means the phone manufacturers will begin to create phones more similar in hardware.

Most phones available now have similar hardware, even the iPhone is very closely related to most other current phones, hardware wise.

 

[sjwaste]

Details on screen size? Would love that 287 dpi in something over 4".

 

[DivideBYZero]

The "Monaco" is a 3.7" touchscreen, the Curve Touch 3.2", the Bold Touch 2.8", but the latter has a full HW KB.

 

[sjwaste]

I'm still hopeful for a larger device then. I wonder why they haven't - for mobile productivity, a bigger screen really does help. The Evo is the first phone I've had where I can realistically open up attachments like PDFs and read them easily. It's too bad its only my personal phone - enterprise is BB only (as far as I'm concerned, the only platform secure enough).

 

[DivideBYZero]

I'd expect the 3.7 will be just fine. I have no issue reading PDF files on my 3.2" Storm 2, so the extra half inch will be nice.

 

[finbarqs]

YUP!!! here it is! proof that Blacberry Playbook plays hulu without any issues! Demo'd at CES 2011!

 

[MrX8503]

YUP!!! here it is! proof that Blacberry Playbook plays hulu without any issues! Demo'd at CES 2011!

See this is why I've said that the Playbook is the only tablet thats the closest thing to real browsing, but people thought I was crazy.

 

[sjwaste]

I'd expect the 3.7 will be just fine. I have no issue reading PDF files on my 3.2" Storm 2, so the extra half inch will be nice.

My Palm Centro used to be fine until I used the Evo. Now my wife's iPhone is just too small. I suggest you not do any serious work on a larger phone until your desired platform has one as well, or you'll just bitch about it like I do.

Right now, we have a ton of enterprise BB's circulating. Great for email, but especially for the folks a generation older than me (management), not so good for reading attachments. PDFs are ok, but a spreadsheet just doesn't work. We circulate mostly those two filetypes. We also work remotely quite often, so it's a real need - saves a need to open the laptop just to pull some figures out of a file.

We're probably not going away from BB for email - it's the only thing available that isn't a joke in the security department. A larger one would reduce the number of devices that our folks had to carry, since quite often, a laptop needs to be lugged "just in case." And that just in case is to read and do some basic editing of a document.