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| RIM announces resolutions for BlackBerry 10 |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-16 18:12:04 |
| For me, the two most interesting products in the operating system space to look forward to are Windows 8 (due to just how different it is), and BlackBerry OS 10. BlackBerry? Yes, and it's simple to see why. The BlackBerry Playbook, while not the most successful tablet, seems to be loved almost universally by its users, which bodes well for BB OS 10. On top of that, it's based on QNX, which is some major brownie points right there. The company has released information on which resolutions the operating system will support. |
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| Why make the programmer do it? |
| By transami on 2012-08-16 22:25:18 |
| Err... so why doesn't RIM just make the OS video driver cut off 24 pixels on either side? |
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| RE[2]: Looking forward to what RIM has to offer |
| By Morgan on 2012-08-17 01:40:19 |
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> i don't understand what is the fuzz about some pixels. Modern frameworks like qt(used by bb10) or android have a layout system that is perfectly able to handle this automatically. Indeed, I can think of a few "top 10" games and apps that compromise on screen resolution using black bars, be it on Android or iOS, and no one complains or probably even notices. I don't see it as an issue at all, unless the BB10 APIs and such make it more difficult than it should be. |
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| RE: Hmmm |
| By daedalus on 2012-08-17 07:37:18 |
| That's a similar system to what Nokia have on the N9 with MeeGo Harmattan - if you swipe from the edge of the glass, it's an OS-specific gesture. If you only swipe on the screen itself, that's an application-specific gesture. A couple of people I've shown this to have said similar to you, but I have to say I love it after the first hour or so of use, and it's uniform across everything on the device so there's no inconsistency from certain apps or screens. |
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| QML |
| By Carewolf on 2012-08-17 08:00:40 |
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The BB10 will be using RIM's own version of QML, and QML is scalable. You don't need those silly tricks when you have a proper toolkit. Yes, you need to customize to 1x1 or 4/3, but other than that 720 to 768, let QML handle that. Or alternatively to support their other toolkits, RIM could just add more useful short-cut or information menus to the larger screen. In any case, I don't see the any reason fuzz over this detail. There is bigger problems for RIM with getting an ecosystem going, and no reason to bring up imaginary problems. Edited 2012-08-17 08:03 UTC |
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| Comment by henderson101 |
| By henderson101 on 2012-08-17 10:02:16 |
| I came close to getting a Playbook, got a Nexus 7 instead. It came down to support in the end. Which one had the apps I need regularly, and which one was looking likely to have continued support. But, what really sealed the deal was seeing the Nexus 7 side by side with the playbook. The latter just looked chunky and old school for some reason. Loving 7" though. Totally. |
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| RE: Comment by henderson101 |
| By libray on 2012-08-17 16:14:49 |
| I got the Playbook after trying to open teamcoco.com videos on many platforms. The Playbook opened videos similar to how desktops behave, and played them in the background while I switched to another app. Other tablets either would not open the videos or took a very long time to start. |
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| RE[3]: Hmmm |
| By nej_simon on 2012-08-17 20:15:33 |
| In that video they seem to have added som effects to make the UI look more fancy but it's close to the playbook's real UI. |
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| 3 years down the road... |
| By jasutton on 2012-08-17 20:44:39 |
| "BlackBerry 10 Community Edition" |
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| RE[2]: Looking forward to what RIM has to offer |
| By zima on 2012-08-20 03:22:27 |
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> Apps, well, I don't need the huge numbers that others are clamoring for. I'd happily pay for just a dozen high quality and useful apps. Which dozen? (sure, there's also a lot of fillers, like "apps" which could be just as well an RSS link or an audiobook, but...) |
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| RE[2]: Comment by henderson101 |
| By henderson101 on 2012-08-20 14:10:23 |
| No idea what Team Coco is, but if it relies on flash - that might be your issue. |
| - Score: 2 |
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