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3D Gaming to Hit BlackBerry Screens

10 Nov, 2009, 3:53 pm IST | by Shayne Rana | Smartphones

RIM’s has shown us that they are more than capable of developing a handset that’s fully equipped for their status quo business users that they’ve been catering to for years as well as today’s multimedia hungry users. One of the main things that you could say the Blackberry’s seriously lacked was their ability to support a better ‘breed’ of mobile games. That’s also about to change.


According to reports, at this year’s BlackBerry Developer Conference, the company showcased what next-gen handsets would be able to accommodate in the gaming department. With Open GL for Embedded Systems now official for 3D graphics acceleration, the BlackBerry OS will soon be able to support the same for a better and richer gaming experience on the handsets. It’s available in the beta BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE).

At the event, reports have showcased a 3D version of EA’s Need For Speed: Shift (mobile) with accelerometer control running on a BlackBerry Storm 2 handset.


This is another big step the company has taken to make their handsets a little less niche and a little more multimedia-centric. Could we expect a 5 megapixel camera phone from them next? You never know.

 

Tags: BlackBerry , BlackBerry Developer Conference 2009 , Mobile Gaming

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