BlackBerry 6.1 Announced at DEVCON

Tyler Lessard, VP of Global Alliances and Developer Relations for RIM, announced the coming of the new BlackBerry 6.1 Application Platform for BlackBerry Smartphones. It will be an addon to BlackBerry 6 platform & will enhance the following features:

• Magnetometer / Digital compass APIs
• Open GL-ES 2.0
• Window API (overlay native app surfaces)
• Event-based geo-fencing location APIs
• Enhancement to barcode API’s for additional formats and custom decoding
• and much more

Supposedly, the release is set to take place in Q1 or Q2 this year. All smartphones running OS6 will rock 6.1. Stay with us for more DEVCON event.