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BlackBerry’s Dev Alpha handset proved to be quite the popular item when it was revealed earlier this year. It was so popular, in fact, that the company ran through the 5,000 it constructed in short order. So, it had to build a whole new batch of developer handsets to meet the demand, and thus was the Dev Alpha B born. We got our mitts on this new bit of kit and had a chance to see how it handled RIM’s latest incarnation of BB10, so join us after the break for our impressions.

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BlackBerry’s new Dev Alpha B handset runs BB10, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Today RIM and BlackBerry is showing off their new and improved mobile operating system in BlackBerry 10 — better known as BB10. Today at BlackBerry Jam (yes that’s the name) they’ve been sharing all sorts of details about a better and faster system, seamless user experiences and more. One feature that was surely worth mentioning was “peek” where you simply slide up from the bottom bezel to get a peek at your entire BlackBerry Hub.

We’ve seen bits and pieces of BB10 leak out over the past few months, but today they’ll be showing plenty of new features off to developers and fans alike as BBJam continues. With their new “peek” feature you simply can see any and all notifications — everything that is important to you — with one seamless gesture all with one hand. While on the go simply slide up with your thumb from the bottom of the screen and walla. From their wherever you are, whatever window you’re in, zooms out into a full notification peek.

It’s here in this “peek” they are calling BlackBerry Peek where you’ll see every notification from your BlackBerry Hub. Now what is BlackBerry Hub? One centralized locations for your Email, Gmail, Twitter, FaceBook, BB Messenger, Text messages and more. The image above shows all the notifications in one after you’ve gestured up to reveal peek mode. From there you can simply slide to the side to enter the Hub — from anywhere in the OS.

In general RIM is calling this BlackBerry Flow. The entire user interface and UX flows with ease. They want the experience to be as seamless and as natural as possible, predicting what you’re about to do next. They’ll be showing tons on the predictive text of their keyboard, browser speeds and more so stay tuned.

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Well, it’s finally here. Sort of. It’s been a long and winding road for BlackBerry 10, and as has been RIM’s way, the company continues to out new BB10 details just a bit at a time. As you may recall, we got a good look at RIM’s original Dev Alpha hardware back in May, and were able to swipe our way through a good bit of BB10 a month later. It’s BlackBerry Jam time now, though, and RIM gave us a more thorough look at the OS than ever before, and we got to see it running on a new Dev Alpha B handset. We couldn’t pry loose any details about the hardware inside the new dev phone (other than it’s got a BB10-standard 1280×768 screen), but we did get a few fresh facts about the software running on it. Once again, RIM reminded us that the software we saw was not the final version, but that shouldn’t deter you from reading on past the break and seeing a video of BB10 in action.

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RIM reveals more details about Blackberry 10 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Everyone’s favorite messaging service, BBM has broke from cover in its new BlackBerry 10 digs at BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012. The software is sporting a redesigned UI, which places the focus on your contacts’ photos instead of the regular ol’ list of names. Speech bubbles that we’ve all become familiar with are still here and emoticons get cozy as well. Another new feature is the predictive keyboard that’s capable of detecting the language that you’re typing in and offers the appropriate suggestions that you may need — even if you’re switching back and forth.

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BBM for BlackBerry 10 gets a retooled UI, predictive keyboard with language detection originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A bit of bad news has turned up concerning the new Nintendo Wii U game console set to launch later this year. Nintendo recently disclosed that the new game console will be region-locked. This means that the console will not support video games purchased outside of the console’s home region.

What this means is that you won’t be able to have a pal in Japan ship you a cool video game not available in America and play it on your console. You will need a console that has the same region as where the video game was published. This policy makes Nintendo the only major console developer who is yet again locking its console hardware to a specific region.

Both Microsoft and Sony leave region-locking up to game publishers. The only recent Nintendo gaming device that hasn’t been region-locked is the Nintendo DS. The 3DS, GameCube, and original Wii were all region-locked as well.

[via Joystiq]