BlackBerry Device Software v4.6 Gets A Broswer Overhaul

The Boy Genius has gotten his hands on the Incremental Features Document for BlackBerry Device Software Version 4.6 expected to debut with the BlackBerry 9000. A bunch of things like themes, language support, media applications, and streaming media, etc., have been redone. We however want to talk about just one update which arguably might be the coolest of them all.

From the looks of it, the BlackBerry Browser has been updated significantly from the bag of arse that it was before to a mobile browser acceptable by todays standards. It’s not Safari on the iPhone, but, quite frankly, it doesn’t have to be.

The web rendering has been improved dramatically and now supports the following AJAX capabilities…

• JavaScript 1.5
• CSS 2.1 (including Lists, Box Model, Positioning, Floats, Visual Effects, Tables, Colors, Backgrounds & Text Properties; NOT including system fonts and generated content)
• DOM L2 (including Core, HTML, Style, Events)
• HTML 4.01 (including Forms, Maps, Tables, Frames, Objects)
• XMLHttpRequest

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Written by Robb Dunewood on April 29th, 2008 with 6 comments.
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Research In Motion Working On An Apple Killer

Even though Research in Motion co-CEO and president Mike Lazaridis thinks that the iPhone’s touch screen sucks, RIM may be working on a new BlackBerry that will be just as hard to type on as it is on the iPhone.

The New York Times is reporting that two independent software developers writing software for next-gen BlackBerry devices say that a touch screen BlackBerry is in the works and that RIM engineers privately refer to it as the “Apple Killer”.

It seems to me that their have been so many “BlackBerry Killers” that didn’t hunt, RIM of all companies would be leery about referring to their own device as a killer… Especially an “Apple Killer” when we know the iPhone is a solid device.

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Written by Robb Dunewood on April 29th, 2008 with 5 comments.
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