OpenGL ES support anounced for BlackBerry OS5 devices

DivideBYZero

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I've known the Storm2 has been using OGL for it's transitions and flick scrolling for quite some time in beta builds, but this confirms publicly the existence and availability to devs. Not only did they announce, but a new GUI builder has been launched for devs to rapidly develop enhanced GUI's from the current Eclipse environment.

Today at the BB DevCon EA showed a demo of Need for Speed running in OpenGL on Storm2. Nice little surprise sitting in there for you who have or are thinking of getting an S2.

The S1 also has OpenGL hardware and I would expect it to be enabled via the OS5 update due soon.