BlackBerry Goodness.

Just messing around trying to come up with a look for the BB10 with physical keyboard as that is the BB10 phone that i’m really looking forward to. Drew inspiration from ‘Milan’ Slider and PlayBook. The PlayBook is the only device on QNX currently so i thought it would be nice if the new BB10 devices share similar design cues. I lifted the keyboard from the bold 99XX (best keyboard ever!) and made only very subtle changes to its design to suit the more squarish look of the device. The back is the same material as the PlayBook, grippy and doesn’t leave much fingerprints.


I started with a version without the ‘answer call, menu, trackpad, back and end call buttons, as i find the bezel gestures of the PlayBook quite nice to use.

Please don’t mind my lousy photoshop skills. :p

with the running applications minimized. You can hardly see the application’s preview screens at all on the small screen. Also the aspect ration of the screen will be rather squarish and not suitable for the camera resolutions and viewing pictures. If i change it to a longer screen, the top swipe down gesture will be almost impossible to use unless you have long thumbs. But well, it hard to say unless there’s a physical device that i could try (maybe i’ll give it a try squeezing in the portrait screen similar to the 9810 later). Also I didn’t want to make it any wider as the bold 99XX in my opinion is just the right size for single hand usage, any wider it’d be hard to reach the other end of the keyboard.

Tried with the 5 buttons.

Comparison to Bold 99XX.