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The final pieces of the puzzle are falling into place just ahead of the big reveal on January 30th. The carriers are on board, there’s apps galore and now Visa has approved RIM’s Secure Element Manager (SEM) for its mobile payment system. Being given the green light means that BlackBerry wont have to worry about being upstaged by the flood of Android devices coming down the pipeline with NFC payment solutions embedded in them. It’s also a major boost to the SEM platform developed by the Canadian firm which has already won the backing of many carriers in its homeland, like Bell, Rogers and TELUS, but has struggled to gain a foothold in the US. For more, check out the PR after the break.

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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We’ve had an early look at the BlackBerry Z10 already — both from a leak of RIM marketing materials and from footage allegedly showing the handset’s components — but Austrian publication Telekom-Presse can lay claim to the first hands-on video with the phone. The seven-and-a-half-minute clip shows off the hardware in great detail — including what looks to be a removable plastic cover on the backing — and the narrator lists specs, including a 4.2-inch HD display, a dual-core 1.5GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor and 2GB of RAM and 16GB of on-board storage. According to the video, the Z10 weighs about 125 grams (4.4 ounces). Of course, the hands-on also demos the BB10 operating system, and it looks to run quite smoothly as the user carries out such gestures as swiping to reveal the BlackBerry Hub. We’ll get an even better look at the Z10 when it becomes official, but for now jump past the break for a look at the video (natürlich auf Deutsch).

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This month we’re ramping up to the big drop of BlackBerry 10, and along the way we’re getting pumped up with leaked video after leaked photo, one after the other, today’s offering being a full hands-on look at the smartphone known as the Z10. This device is a full touch BlackBerry 10-toting device, it making use of a lovely 4.3-inch display up front and a styling that’s able to be presented in black, white, or potentially a variety of other color casings.

What you’re seeing in the video isn’t a whole lot of new information if you’re familiar with the OS as we’ve seen it in leaks before, but for those of you new to the BlackBerry 10 leaking faucet, this will act as an OK briefing. The video shows off the BlackBerry Hub, for starters, as well as the clock. Both of these apps are native to the device and to BlackBerry 10, and will be showing up on essentially all BlackBerry 10 devices through the future.

The final version of the software will be presented later this month, but for now you’ll see what must be near-final versions of Task Manager, the pull-down menu abilities of the OS, and three base menu buttons. You’ll see a phone button, search button, and camera button at the bottom of the display much of the time the video plays, this giving you instant access to these most-used functions.

Pay special attention to the way the OS flows as well as how well the device is pushing the OS to the user. While we’re expecting a smoother experience at the end of this month, this presentation certainly doesn’t look half bad for a final OS/hardware combination. Stick with us through our BlackBerry 10 tag as well as right here in the main news feed on January 30th, 2013.

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BlackBerry Z10 all-touch smartphone gets close-up video rundown is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s been a long road filled with delays and setbacks, but in just a couple short weeks, RIM will finally unveil BlackBerry 10 to the world. At its press event on January 30, RIM will officially launch the new mobile OS, which is seen by many as the company’s best hope of coming back from the brink. The BlackBerry faithful are certainly pumped for BB10′s launch, but it seems that investors are excited too, as RIM’s stock is making another surge today.

At the time of this writing, RIM’s stock is up right around 9%, floating between a price of $14.75 and $14.85. This isn’t exactly a new thing for RIM, either, with it’s stock making some pretty significant gains in recent weeks. Just today, RIM announced that it had received 15,000 app submissions for BlackBerry 10 in just 36 hours, an announcement we think helped with the most recent stock boost.

Surges like this have to be encouraging for the company, which has been struggling in a big way lately. Apple and Android swooped in to take a large amount of market share away from RIM, leaving it in a distant third place. The company has a lot of ground to make up, and if BlackBerry 10 is a success, then it might just be able to do so.

Of course, the chances of BlackBerry 10 propelling RIM into second or even first place in terms of market share seem pretty slim, but stranger things have happened in the smartphone world. The new mobile OS could certainly help RIM close the gap between BlackBerry and the other two at any rate, and you can bet that closing the gap is what RIM has its sights set on. We’ll see if BlackBerry 10 is greeted with success soon enough, but for now, the excitement surrounding the new mobile OS seems to be enough to keep sending the company’s stock up.

RIM’s stock surges again as BlackBerry 10 excitement builds is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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