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A new BlackBerry OS 6 has been announced by the company which is expected to arrive within next three to four months. During the demonstration the company in a video showed a range of new features, including a new Web browser, contextual menus and animated screen transitions.

BlackBerry OS 6.0 will address the weaknesses of the aging OS, making it more intuitive and fluid, while improving the browser. The list of features that the new BlackBerry OS 6 will offer includes:

• Web Browser: A tabbed Web browser running on WebKit engine which will support multitouch and pinch-to-zoom.
• Media Player: The BlackBerry 6 OS will have a new media player capable of downloading album covers and categorical media library.
• User Interface: Updated UI that extends the black OS 5 theme with new animations and transitions.
• Better Apps Support: Individual apps for social network services including Twitter. RIM will step up BlackBerry’s app store, App World, with new features in the coming year.
• Contextual Menu: Almost every screen has new contextual menus that pop up in the middle of the screen as a box, instead of down from the top-left corner

At an analyst’s conference on Monday, RIM chief executive Mike Lazaridis strongly implied that RIM would make the new OS available for existing BlackBerry phone owner.

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