BlackBerry OS 6.0 leaked?

Are these grabs from RIM's refreshed BlackBerry OS 6.0 or just fanart from some sleepy design school student meant to trick the tech press? We don't know, but BBLeaks claims that they come "highly regarded as real from one of our best connects." But before getting too worked up, it's worth noting the bizarre similarities between these grabs (San Francisco, the weather widget colors, Haiti tweet, and font) and the slide pulled from that "Super Apps" developer webinar back in February -- images that RIM called nothing more than mockups of nothing important at the time. Still with a consumer-focused, BlackBerry slider rumored to be making its first appearance next month at RIM's own WES show, well, who knows. Really, does anybody know? Webinar image after the break for your clinical comparison.

[TwiggenBerries Posted Mar 19th 2010 12:21PM]

@TwiggenBerries
http://images.crackberry.com/files/u7860/slide2.png

[Gagamus Posted Mar 19th 2010 1:10PM]

If they optimized this OS version for touch and can make a Storm 3 that doesn't seem like an afterthought, I might just go back to BlackBerry. It's nice to see an OS that doesn't look like Windows 95 in your pocket.

Now, I can only hope they fixed the constant memory leaks in the OS and will finally make a BlackBerry where pulling out your battery doesn't solve 90% of your problems.

[KeegdnaB Posted Mar 19th 2010 1:46PM]

Probably fake

The one on the right is using the 4.6/4.7 style buttons (flat black with white text and border). They wouldn't revert back from the 5.0 style as seen on the left (grey, borderless 3Dish look).

It doesn't seem like a huge difference but after regular use it's definately noticable and does actual improve the look. Anyone who has a Tour and has upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0 can tell you that.

[dkhang Posted Mar 19th 2010 5:23PM]

piece of pieces

[FieldEffect Posted Mar 19th 2010 5:27PM]

@Phantom Pain I'd just like them to fix a few things on BES before they go playing with the UI. Just started using BES syncing with Exchange and its awful. Desktop deletes require manual reconciliation to update on device, messages manually moved out of the mailbox never reconcile, etc. Thought email was supposed to be the one thing BB were good at :)

[derekdevine Posted Mar 20th 2010 1:20AM]

A leak from 5 years ago.

[lepetitprince Posted Mar 20th 2010 1:33PM]

if it is true, finally blackberry will have a chance worthy of being called a smart phone.

[reignsupreme Posted Mar 21st 2010 9:56AM]

All I know is that they better bring it. I have already jumped ship and until they bring a multi-carrier touch screen phone with an excellent web browser, I won't be back!