{"id":651139,"date":"2013-04-08T11:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blackberry.com\/?p=16562"},"modified":"2013-04-08T11:40:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:40:45","slug":"blackberry-10-and-the-end-of-the-u-turn-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651139","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry 10 and the end of the \u201cU-Turn\u201d Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As more and more of my friends get their hands on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry.com\/BlackBerry-Z10\" >BlackBerry Z10<\/a>, I find myself referring to an earlier Inside BlackBerry Blog post &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.blackberry.com\/2013\/01\/blackberry-10-flow\/\" >There\u2019s No Button like Home<\/a>\u201d- about the device\u2019s lack of a home button. Users migrating from a BlackBerry device or competitive devices needed more information on how using BlackBerry 10 Flow keeps you moving, and BlackBerry users in particular wondered how and why they would navigate apps without the much-adored \u201cBack\u201d or \u201cU-Turn\u201d button.<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rimblogs.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/uturnbutton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rimblogs.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/uturnbutton.png?w=631&#038;h=415\" alt=\"uturnbutton\" width=\"631\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16648\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without belaboring the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FK8EFDdk7ac&amp;feature=share&amp;list=PLSV1iA-lr7ykoKsJ3popveqDJkgtCoaB1\" >how\u201d part of using BlackBerry 10 Flow (explained in this video<\/a>), I\u2019d like to focus on why the U-turn button is no longer needed with BlackBerry 10. We frequently note that this function is due to the goal to \u201ckeep you moving forward\u201d but what does that really mean?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-16562\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rimblogs.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/uturn-2.jpg?w=450\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\tIt means that the user experience of your mobile operating system should adapt to you and not the other way around.<\/li>\n<li>\tIt means taking the human desire to reach higher and be more and packing it into a smartphone. <\/lI>\n<li>\tIt means a smartphone that says \u201cI agree with you, star-reacher. Let\u2019s go and be more.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\tIt means knowing where you\u2019ve been and how it impacts you, then using it to propel you beyond your expectations.<\/li>\n<li>\tIt means plunging fearlessly into apps and being able to peek into the correspondence that mean the most at any time, day or night.<\/li>\n<li>\tIt means BlackBerry 10 is more than a slogan or ad &#8211; it\u2019s a movement, and a movement forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this clears things up. If you have any questions about how BlackBerry 10 keeps you moving forward, shout them out in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/rimblogs.wordpress.com\/16562\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/rimblogs.wordpress.com\/16562\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogs.blackberry.com&#038;blog=17235670&#038;%23038;post=16562&#038;%23038;subd=rimblogs&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/InsideBlackberry-TheOfficialBlackBerryBlog\/~4\/rRbBfhSqawY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more and more of my friends get their hands on a BlackBerry Z10, I find myself referring to an earlier Inside BlackBerry Blog post &#8211; \u201cThere\u2019s No Button like Home\u201d- about the device\u2019s lack of a home button. Users migrating from a BlackBerry device or competitive devices needed more information on how using BlackBerry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}