Changes in the new BlackBerry OS have been revealed giving us new insight to the BlackBerry 6 expected to launch on the new BlackBerry 9800. The new OS offers new ways to switch using the Navigation Bar, quick access areas, and Universal Search.
There are two new 'quick access areas' that are built into the Home Screen. One is allows quick access to the Connections,
Alarm and Options screens which people frequently want
to adjust or change - with one click from the Home Screen.
The other quick access area on the Home Screen for the most recent messages (email, text, BlackBerry
Messenger), phone calls, appointments, Facebook and Twitter
notifications. This is done by by tapping the Notification Bar in the middle of
the top of the Home Screen. If you click on the Notification Bar, it
drops down to show who the notifications are from, along with the first
few words from the title. This feature makes it much easier to
prioritize which notifications you want to respond to first.
In the new BlackBerry 6, there are now five separate views that a user can easily
switch between using the Navigation Bar, depending on their preference
and the type of information they're looking for. These include:
- Frequent- where your most frequently-used apps are automatically placed for easy acces.
- Favorites-
where you can choose to add not just your favorite applications, but
also to create shortcuts to particular Contacts or web pages (making the
important people and information in your life just one click away!) - Media-, for all your media-centric content.
- Downloads", for all the apps you download.
- All
- this is a big vertical list that you can scroll through, similar to
the Home Screen today. Users will be able to simply slide left and
right (the touch-screen or trackpad, depending on your BlackBerry
smartphone model) to quickly get to any of these new view panes.
BlackBerry Phone Home Screen with Universal Search
The BlackBerry Home Screen also now includes a powerful Universal Search application. It's never been easier to find content on your BlackBerry smartphone, regardless of whether you're looking for contacts, messages, music, pictures or appointments. Universal Search was designed to be tightly integrated with your BlackBerry smartphone: simply tap on the Search icon in the top right-hand corner of the Home Screen - or just start typing - and it searches the whole device. As you type, we instantly bring back your results using icons.
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