At DEVCON Asia 2011, RIM officially announced BlackBerry 6.1 Application Platform.  So we know that BlackBerry 6 OS is going to be around for a while without all the QNX stuff we’ve been excited for.  We had two devices leaked today, one the Dakota and the other Apollo which have been rumored to rock OS 6.1.  In any case, for developers, 6.1 Application Platform tools include:

• 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
• Much More

So the biggest news here I believe is Open GL-ES 2.0 which will give developers a lot more to work with.  I expect we’ll be seeing BlackBerry 6.1 launch by the BlackBerry World event, hopefully.  Sooner would be better of course!

Source: CB

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