RIM held back many of the details around BlackBerry 10 during BlackBerry World earlier this month — one of the most important of which was a very basic one: how do you launch apps? At a UK press event earlier today, RIM’s Vivek Bhardwaj finally dropped that small detail. As we saw in our closer look at BlackBerry 10, the default homescreen is a set of “tiles” that represent a widget-like view of your recently used apps while you can swipe to the left to view the messaging app. As it turns out, swiping to the right reveals a fairly standard list of app icons arrayed in a grid. Compared to the clever keyboard, the camera, or the omnipresent ability to swipe into the messaging app, the app tray isn’t exactly the most whiz-bang feature — but we suppose “flow” and Cascades will only get you so far.
Blackberry 10 app tray revealed (updated)
As we saw in our closer look at BlackBerry 10, the default homescreen is a set of “tiles” that represent a widget-like view of your recently used apps while you can swipe to the left to view the messaging app. As it turns out, swiping to the left reveals a fairly standard list of app icons arrayed in a grid.
As we saw in our closer look at BlackBerry 10, the default homescreen is a set of “tiles” that represent a widget-like view of your recently used apps while you can swipe to the left to view the messaging app. As it turns out, swiping to the left reveals a fairly standard list of app icons arrayed in a grid.
Update: willwnet posted the above image in our comments, apparently from the original BlackBerry Jam earlier this month. It shows a more nuanced icon view that the apparent placeholder image below. Thanks!
