BlackBerry 6 running on BlackBerry 9800 video shows off its media capabilities

By Bla1ze on 18 Jul 2010 10:54 pm

Let's face it, BlackBerry media capabilities in the past have been rather relaxed. Sure, we seen some improvements from OS 4.5 to 5.0 but, nothing drastic by any means. The most promising thing added in my opinion was DivX video playback support. Now that BlackBerry 6 is upon us, we once again see that Research In Motion is extending upon those functionalities for the better. Salomondrin, got his hands on rather nice video walkthrough of those changes running on a BlackBerry 9800. "Terrible Bean" does the walk through for us all. Video after the break folks, looks pretty nice although --I'd have rolled with some better music selections but, that's just me. I overlooked the music based on the fact I got to see the Muppets. ;)

[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ]

Source: Salomondrin

Topics: Video BlackBerry 9800 Multimedia Device Video News & Rumors

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35 comments

Salomondrin Jul 18, 2010 at 11:05 pm

Maybe Terrible Bean was depressed...

Bla1ze Jul 18, 2010 at 11:13 pm

Sure seems like it...he took it to a dark, dark place...lol.

Salomondrin Jul 18, 2010 at 11:24 pm

Or maybe he was just trying to set the mood with his girl ;) LOL

infinus Jul 19, 2010 at 1:28 am

girl
or
BB?
both at a time, he is sure a multitasker ...

vlkers7171 Jul 19, 2010 at 10:12 am

a true multitasker...not just a multitasker on select functions...right mr. jobs?!

robarias Jul 18, 2010 at 11:08 pm

A cheap copy os Apple coverflow.
Anything original on OS 5.1 AKA 6.0?

baller3hoe5 Jul 18, 2010 at 11:19 pm

that 9800 is either his wifes/gfs or his gay....smdh

infinus Jul 19, 2010 at 1:30 am

lol,
stay clam.

Jayhawk-X Jul 18, 2010 at 11:27 pm

I know the video was intended to highlite it's media savvy, however I would liked to have seen a few other area's showcased.

xonehitterx Jul 18, 2010 at 11:34 pm

Muppets and teletubbies ohh my

MarketRide Jul 18, 2010 at 11:34 pm

The capabilites look nice. I just hope that won't be the sample list of media that it ships with :)

mas3222 Jul 19, 2010 at 1:35 pm

I really have no complaints with my bb but it would be nice to not have to use a 3rd party app to delete the sample stuff so I hope the same thing

sookster54 Jul 18, 2010 at 11:40 pm

Not bad, here's hoping this kind of stuff will help boost RIM's falling stockmarket.

ilovejackbauer Jul 18, 2010 at 11:57 pm

So wait... is the youtube app just a launcher for its mobile site, or is it actually its own app?

The Legendary Jul 19, 2010 at 12:04 am

did no one else find it a little bit funny that one of the pictures he showed us was steve jobs haha.

ken_ch Jul 19, 2010 at 12:13 am

Couldn't they get better songs on this thing...man that was crappy music.

ritzcrakca Jul 19, 2010 at 12:39 am

Wow dude with this berry has the gayest music, NSYNC and Enrique ?? Happy that OS 6 will be good on the 9700, but seeing more vids of the 9800 i'm wishing i waited longer on my hardware upgrade! oh well i'll find ways to get my hands on this, because i'm a crackberry addict :-)

McatMadness Jul 19, 2010 at 12:50 am

i mean no offense by this, but judging from this music and pic collection, is he gay?

infinus Jul 19, 2010 at 1:33 am

i think BB9800 is a gay device.
it's so girly like 8900 and boldish like 9700.

lol.

McatMadness Jul 19, 2010 at 2:28 am

so true.

blazed12 Jul 19, 2010 at 1:48 am

He doesn't make this videos right? Someone does the videos for him then he just add the voice over.

giorgosh Jul 19, 2010 at 3:31 am

Dont care about video and youtube playback! I just need an OS without leaks! Can we have it?

RedBank Jul 19, 2010 at 6:47 am

i cant believe the music selection on there. if i had no idea about the owner...id say he was either gay or an older mother of 3 kids.

there was not one thing right about the albums i saw or the songs i heard.

and we all know if that was Sal's phone...he would have played Jay-Z...as he always does on the phones "he" gets ;)

mike22 Jul 19, 2010 at 8:14 am

6 sucks out dated big time ! !
rim just keeps showing us media
stuff and music and pictures.
What about the brower ???
nothing on that EVER ?

robarias Jul 19, 2010 at 9:59 am

http://crackberry.com/blackberry-webkit-browser-caught-video-doing-andro...

And just to clarify... it might be using webkit... but still SUCKS big time.
RIM is like 4 years behind in it OS

jlb21 Jul 19, 2010 at 9:15 am

I think it all seemed great. I thought the coverflow was fairly good. I hope this does come to vZW.

Spiral_ouT Jul 19, 2010 at 9:30 am

Wow! That man has some TERRIBLE tastes, apart from his taste for Blackberry's.

Cramp11 Jul 19, 2010 at 11:08 am

I def agree with other comments... that's just awful media to demo. lmao.

Looks pretty cool. I hate the 4.6 media player on my 9000.

mister_right Jul 20, 2010 at 9:19 am

Upgrade from 4.6 to 5.0 then. The music player on 5.0 looks much better.

mikegcox Jul 19, 2010 at 11:12 am

I think Coverflow is the first thing serious Mac users turn off. I don't have album art for most of my music, so coverflow would be really annoying and I find the current music player to be pretty good. My only complaint is that I cannot read the tiny lettering for Album, Song and Artist.

aleoje Jul 19, 2010 at 2:40 pm

I Want It