The designs in this strung along leak for the N-Series and L-Series BlackBerry 10 devices seem primitive for this stage of the game but may give us some insight into RIM’s plans. Many users have been wondering what will happen to the BlackBerry classic trackball since it is missing on the BlackBerry 10 devices. According to this slide scored by N4BB the N-Series QWERTY keyboard packing BlackBerry 10 device will combine the touchscreen with the keyboard. It will offer an augmented touch section of the extended keyboard commands for things like word completion and umlat selection overlay.
This might cramp things a bit on the 720×720 pixel screen but I do like the idea. Still one of my favorite parts about the trackpad is the ability to use the phone with one hand. Hopefully RIM manages to incorporate that in BlackBerry 10.
Berry 7 ( View Profile) - Posts: 143
Posted: June 26, 2012 at 3:32 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9930 | OS 7.1.0.267
That one handed use of Blackberry is key. I hope they create a virtual trackpad to allow fine selection of teaxt to be copied.
Marc Paradise ( View Profile) - Posts: 539
Posted: June 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM EST
Perhaps most interesting all here is the phrasing: “could be”, “possibility”, “needs to”.
That implies that this is either all up in the air, or an outdated slide – and it seems to come from the same deck that N4BB has been parceling out leaks from all week — so that kind of makes the rest of the data we’ve received a bit suspect as well.