New Blackberry launched

BlackBerry has launched the new smartphones and software it hopes will help turn a corner and restore it to the top table in mobile technology. The BlackBerry 10 operating system, the Z10 touchscreen phone and Q10, the first BlackBerry smartphone with a Qwerty keyboard, were launched at an event in New York that was beamed live to London and other venues around the world. Thorsten Heins, president and chief executive of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM), said the new software system was centred around the BlackBerry Hub, whose key feature is the ability to amalgamate information from multiple apps, like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn simultaneously within your phone in "real time". "We intend to lead the move from mobile communication to mobile computing," he said. The unveiling was designed to appeal to BlackBerry's core business users as much as social users of systems like BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). It also allows you to use your phone for both work and personal use but keep them separately secure, Mr Heins said, with the hope of encouraging people to "go from using two devices to one". It will also allow video calls within its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) instant...