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As we ramp up to the 30th of January and the official launch of RIM’s own BlackBerry 10, we’re seeing multiple leaks and test videos like the one we’ve been shown today, complete with a demonstration of the software’s Voice Control system. This system is built in to BlackBerry 10 and looks rather familiar if you’re used to Siri from iOS or S-Voice from Samsung’s Galaxy series. In this case you’ll be pressing the Start button (aka power button) on your device a 2-count and the Voice Control system will activate.

At the moment we’re able to see several functionalities included in this build, starting with the ability to send an SMS message courtesy of the folks at Telekom Presse. Though the voice recognition here is nothing like we’re seeing with advanced diction-decoding voice systems like Siri, pre-set commands appear to work perfectly well. You’ll also see the system make a phone call and start up a bit of music as it exists on the device itself – perhaps streaming apps in the future, too!

This video also shows off a couple other items that we’ve seen in the past, including the next-level keyboard with its fully functional predictive text engine. The maps application you may have seen in the past is also being shown here in brief. While we’re not sure this is the final version of the software that will be revealed at the end of this month, what we’re seeing thus far does seem to be relatively solid – as a demo, anyway.

The machine you’re seeing these demos on is the BlackBerry Z10. This is a touch-centric device working with the newest iteration of BlackBerry 10 and will be acting as one of RIM’s 2 or more hero devices at the launch of this new operating system. Have a peek in our BlackBerry 10 tag portal for more and hit the timeline below for the most recent action in the RIM universe!

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BlackBerry 10 voice controls hit leaked video demo is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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RIM is planning on officially launching its new BlackBerry 10 OS on January 30, and most of the major carriers will be offering the company’s new phones at launch. So, it probably comes at no surprise that they’re gathering up their materials and preparing for the platform’s launch. Specifically, Verizon has already built their landing page for the Z10, and EVLeaks ended up getting a snapshot of it.

EVLeaks posted the screenshot earlier this morning via Twitter, and while it’s way too small to even read, it gives us a quick look at what Verizon has planned for its customers who are looking to go the way of BlackBerry come later this month. We also get a peek at what Verizon’ BlackBerry Z10 will look like, which doesn’t look too different from what we’ve seen, but the silver backing is something new compared to past images we saw.

The screenshot of Verizon’s BlackBerry 10 landing page doesn’t tell us much anyway, even if it were a little bigger to make it easier to read. In any case, this goes to show that carriers are getting ramped up for RIM’s BlackBerry 10 launch, and it proves that carriers are going to give the new platform a lot of attention.

RIM is betting big on its new platform, and the company thinks BlackBerry 10 will revive the company from despair and put them back in contention. They’ve already received 15,000 app submissions in just 36 hours, and they got 1,600 companies to sign up for the BlackBerry 10 training program. It looks like developers are showing a little bit of faith in the new OS, or maybe they’re just in it for the incentives.

Verizon BlackBerry 10 preparations previewed as carriers ready for RIM is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The filter wars seem set to continue if you were to take the latest leaked video of the BlackBerry 10 photo editing app that has started to make its rounds online. At first, we had Instagram adding in a new filter, where Twitter and Flickr followed that up by adding more filters to their sites. Apparently, BlackBerry does not want to miss jumping aboard the bandwagon, which is why we have this video of a pre-production version of the BlackBerry Z10 that comes with just 1GB RAM and does not have the final software for security purposes, showing off some of the more notable features found in the smartphone’s camera app.

Needless to say, the photo editing app on the BlackBerry 10 comes with a range of filters that enables you to change colors as well as perform other kinds of artistic enhancements. You can do the usual shebang such as crop, resize and even reduce the picture into a specific shape. We can’t wait for the curtain to fully lift from the BlackBerry 10 in its unveiling at the end of this month.

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Just the other day we reported that RIM’s recent Blackberry 10 app port-a-thon managed to net about 15,000 apps in just under two days. While all those submitted apps may or may not be approved, that’s certainly a large number of apps that RIM will be able to choose form and add it to the Blackberry 10 app store. Now it looks like the Canadian company is going for round two and has announced the “Last Chance Port-A-Thon” event which will be taking place on the 18^th of January 2013. It will kick off at noon ET, run for 36 hours, and similar to the previous event, RIM will be paying out $100 for every app that is approved with a maximum of 20 apps per developer, and developers who submit at least five apps will be eligible for a chance to win a Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha device. Of course with Blackberry 10 officially launching on the 30^th of January, personally I think that a prize of an actual Blackberry 10 finish product would certainly be a lot more appealing, but to each their own! We wonder how many apps RIM will manage to get this time and if they will be able to surpass their goal of 70,000 apps on launch day.

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