WHAT’S NEW

The long-overdue BlackBerry 10 operating system is here, with two phones: the touch screen-only Z10 and a traditional physical keyboard model called the Q10.

BlackBerry 10 features include separate work and personal profiles; time-saving ways to multitask without closing applications; video chat with live screen sharing; and more than 70,000 applications. whatever you were doing; if you see something that requires your attention, keep sliding to the right and the Hub fills the screen.

Best of all, you can respond from within the Hub app. No need to launch a separate email client, or Facebook to like or comment on a post, or Twitter to reply to a tweet; the Hub is one-stop shopping for communications.

The new operating system also introduces a video-chat feature into BlackBerry Messenger. It is similar to Apple’s FaceTime, but it adds the ability to share screens, which could prove useful. At launch, the video feature will be available only over a wi-fi connection.

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The touch screen on the Z10 has already earned early raves for its accurate auto-correct and predictive text, multi-language capabilities within the same email, and use of flicks and swipes to quickly select or delete words.

In a surprise announcement, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) also changed its name to BlackBerry. tapping out a message, multiple possible words appear on screen; all you have to do is flick the right one into place with a finger-swipe. Multilingual users may appreciate that the keyboard dictionary can handle up to three languages simultaneously.

The eight-megapixel camera includes a feature called TimeShift that lets you adjust individual components in a photo to assure that, for instance, everyone in a group shot has their eyes open. And a near-field communications chip gives the Z10 the same tap-phones-to-sharecontent ability that Samsung is promoting heavily on its Galaxy S III.

BlackBerry says the Z10 will run a full day in normal use. I