BlackBerry 10 gets homespun picture editor to reduce Instagram-envy (video)

BlackBerry 10 gets homespun picture editor to reduce Instagramenvy

BlackBerry users who routinely feel left out while friends share retro pictures of coffee and pastries on Instagram will soon have their own BB alternative. Slides released by N4BB reveal that a Scalado-powered photo editing app has been baked into BB10, which is due early next year. The software will let you tweak and enhance your casual snaps, but also offer a carousel of aged filters you can drag onto shots of your own taste-appropriate snack goods. After the break we've got an early hands-on with the app from the folks at Crackberry, which walks you through a non-working prototype.

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BlackBerry 10 gets homespun picture editor to reduce Instagram-envy (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Does BlackBerry 10’s camera app get by with a little help from Scalado Rewind?

Does BlackBerry 10's camera app get by with a little help from Scalado Rewind?

Impressed by the new camera tech on display in BB10? You're not alone. But did the folks at RIM have some help with the new "timeline lens" feature? Well, grab your salt shaker. If you recall, software that allows you to change the faces of those pictured via additional pre- and post-shot frames popped up in Scalado's Rewind last year. The ring UI that allows the user to navigate the extra frames from its border is quite similar to the functionality of BB10's editing feature. We've reached out to Scalado for further details on the matter and we're eager to hear its response. But until that happens, hit the video just past the break for a closer look at Rewind in action.

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Does BlackBerry 10's camera app get by with a little help from Scalado Rewind? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 May 2012 15:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BlackBerry 10 camera app gets ‘timeline lens,’ bad photographers get a do-over

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Thorsten Heins is on stage at BlackBerry World 2012 and has just unveiled the new BB10 camera app. It is designed to capture those "magic moments" you miss by not hitting that shutter quick enough. If you miss it by a couple of seconds, you can cycle back through the camera's cache with a circular "timeline" lens and take your pick from the previous seconds worth of frames. It's eerily reminiscent of technology used in the Nikon 1 series, although the implication here is that as soon as the camera app is loaded, it'll start recording frames for your ease of use.

BlackBerry 10 camera app gets 'timeline lens,' bad photographers get a do-over originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 May 2012 09:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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