RIM announces BlackBerry 6.1 Application Platform At Devcon Asia

by Luis Merlos on January 12th, 2011 · 16 Comments

It looks like BB OS 6.0 will be around for a while since RIM just announced that they are working on an update to V6.1. This means that will likely see the next batch of BlackBerry devices from RIM rocking this OS 6.1 not a QNX version. I can deal with that BB6 for a while if RIM can add more power to the devices.

New features:

Magnetometer / Digital compass APIs
Open GL-ES 2.0
Window API (overlay native app surfaces)
Event-based geo-fencing location APIs
Enhancement to barcode API’s for additional formats and custom decoding
and MUCH MORE

Finally it looks like RIM will be supporting Open GL-ES 2.0 on BlackBerry which should give developer better tools to develop rich content and better gaming applications for this future devices. They did mention that 6.1 developers tools will be available soon and will likely see OS 6.1 in the next two quarters.

Source: CB

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