Apps can serve up notifications however they like, and they can all be acted on individually. Well, Android’s notification pane - which has been with the operating system since launch and has been greatly improved since - offers much of the same. Users can act on the items in the Hub individually, and depending on how the app is coded you can either “respond” to an item there, or jump into the app to do it. Messages from the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, email, SMS and more are all grouped into the same list, and each individual application can control what types of messages show up in the Hub. The feature is implemented quite interestingly. The Blackberry Hub in Blackberry OS 10 is being touted as an exciting and innovative concoction that consists of the right mix of notifications and a messaging inbox. Let’s get started! Blackberry Hub, or Android Notifications Later, we’ll take a look at some cool things Blackberry 10 has that Android doesn’t, but can be emulated through the use of third-party applications.

Let’s take a look at some of the features Blackberry 10 has that can be compared to stuff we already enjoy in Android. 5 Blackberry 10 features Android users already enjoy While we had to clown Apple in our original iOS 5 comparison feature due to the company acting like its “innovations” were never done before, we’re applauding Blackberry for how it fundamentally changed some of the features we enjoy everyday, all while showing it off in a relatively more humble manner. The truth of the matter is that Blackberry 10 doesn’t necessarily introduce much that is ground-breaking and revolutionary, but it does take a different enough approach to many things other platforms have already achieved, and even goes a step further by combining and borrowing several elements from the likes of Windows Phone and Android to create a fresh experience.īlackberry’s tone when introducing its latest OS was a lot different from Apple’s, of course. So, Blackberry 10 has been announced and you’re wondering how it stacks up compared to Android.

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