Blackberry OS6 and Flash support.
At the beginning of this month RIM provided Blackberry 9800 Torch with its new OS6
There are many interesting features but one caught my eye from web developer point of view:
The New Web Browser
RIM's new Web browser, provided by their Torch Mobile acquisition, is a major step forwards. The new browser is powered by WebKit, the same engine that runs the iOS and Android browsers. Desktop-style pages look true to life. JavaScript performance is finally viable. Adobe says that Flash support will be coming later this year. The new browser has tabs, it has pinch-to-zoom, and if you double-tap on a column of text it zooms in and reformats the column for easy reading without horizontal scrolling.
One of the new browser's features is invisible, but it could save you money: almost all data coming through to the BlackBerry will be compressed two to three times, RIM execs told me. That means you could potentially get more e-mails and Web pages on limited data plans than you could with competing OSes.
Being hardcore Flash developer I waiting for new browser to completely support Flash.
Will see how it goes.
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