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

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

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: BlackBerry 9800, device video, multimedia, video

35 Comments

Posted by Salomondrin Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

Maybe Terrible Bean was depressed...

Posted by Bla1ze Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by Salomondrin Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by infinus Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by vlkers7171 Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

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

Posted by robarias Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by baller3hoe5 Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by infinus Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

lol,
stay clam.

Posted by Jayhawk-X Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

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.

Posted by xonehitterx Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

Muppets and teletubbies ohh my

Posted by MarketRide Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by mas3222 Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

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

Posted by sookster54 Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by ilovejackbauer Sunday, Jul 18, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by The Legendary Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by ken_ch Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by ritzcrakca Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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 :-)

Posted by McatMadness Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by infinus Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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

lol.

Posted by McatMadness Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

so true.

Posted by blazed12 Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by giorgosh Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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

Posted by RedBank Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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 ;)

Posted by mike22 Monday, Jul 19, 2010 672 days ago

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 ?

Posted by robarias Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

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

Posted by jlb21 Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

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

Posted by Spiral_ouT Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

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

Posted by Cramp11 Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

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.

Posted by mister_right Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010 670 days ago

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

Posted by mikegcox Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

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.

Posted by aleoje Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

I Want It

Posted by crucialleo Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

They removed the video before I got a chance to see it! SUCKSSSSSSS!

Posted by LayzieBone075 Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

Is removed D: I really wanted to see this sexii phone in action!

Posted by Jude526 Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

removed can't see it

Posted by tcseacliff Monday, Jul 19, 2010 671 days ago

da=*mn! videos have been yanked! hate that , now i will never know what i missed, what tease!!