Mike Lazaridis’ Keynote at Mobile World Congress, where he briefly demos BlackBerry’s new WebKit browser (starts around 6:51). The good? 100/100 Acid score. The bad? Still cursor-based.
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Posts tagged with “blackberry” :
“The market is likely somewhat underwhelmed by the announcements relative to expectations around the new WebKit browser shipping, as well as new form factors.”Shaw Wu, analyst, on RIM
BlackBerry OS 6.0
BGR has some screenshots and details for BlackBerry’s pending OS 6.0, which features a WebKit-based browser (and multitouch).
“Every major mobile platform is now either using WebKit or will be soon. Except for one.”John Gruber, on RIM’s new WebKit-based browser, the one obvious holdout being Windows Mobile. (via jimray)
BlackBerry has demoed its upcoming WebKit browser today at Mobile World Congress. Overall, the browser appears to be quite fast, though it still uses the nubbin/cursor and there isn’t an enormous amount of screen real estate. The new browser achieves a 100/100 on ACID3 and supports HTML5 and CSS3. And yes, it supports AJAX—a big departure from BlackBerry’s current browser which doesn’t even support XMLHttpRequest.
New BlackBerry browser faster than Android, iPhone?
Electronista cites an anonymous source at RIM as saying BlackBerry’s upcoming WebKit-based browser could be up to 30–60 percent faster than other WebKit devices, thanks to the BlackBerry Internet Service.
RIM is working on a WebKit browser for BlackBerry, and they need help
MobileCrunch summarizes RIM’s recent acquisition of Torch, and looks at a revealing LinkedIn job post:
Utilizing their expert knowledge in C++ programming, the successful candidate will be working in a fast-paced, dynamic development environment to develop a WebKit-based browser for the BlackBerry Platform.
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