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April 20, 2010

Hey CrackBerry lover-lovers: OS 6.0 got leaked

Tech blogs were abuzz today with news of a BlackBerry OS 6.0 leak -- the latest operating system for the popular handsets.

:: InformationWeek calls it a "major revision" that will offer multitouch, a new browser, and an updated inbox. Hooray for BlackBerry.

:: Boy Genius Report, I think, got the scoop earlier today on the new OS that reverberated across the Web. They've got some pretty slick screen shots of the new OS in action. Makes me definitely want to put down my iPhone and play with a BlackBerry as soon as this new OS comes out.

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Posted by Gus Sentementes at 4:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Gadgets, Smartphones

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The screenshots look good, and the fact that the mobile browser is based on Webkit--the de facto mobile browser platform of late--is a definite improvement.

Unfortunately, I think I will be using an Android phone as my personal phone in short order. I am nonplussed by my 1st gen Storm and the various memory errors I receive when it runs some apparently memory-hungry applications.

Posted by: JJT | April 21, 2010 1:14 PM

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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