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Originally Posted by Azure
So Blackberry Hub is where you can get all your messages, social networking alerts, emails, etc, etc on ONE app? Because I would love that.
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Exactly that. It's always running (no launch time waiting), and accessible from everywhere with the little j-hook swipe. Begin to swipe up, and you get the "peek" which is a set of icons on the left side corresponding to the unread counts for the various services. If you want to look at them, continue the gesture to the right to go into hub, or just let go, and you fade back into whatever app you were in.
Even more interesting, going forward, is that 3rd party apps can hook into the Hub as well for alerts, notifications, content, etc. Imagine RSS integration, or a PodCast app that is Hub driven, severe weather alerts, etc.
Sounds like it would be a mess (and in the default view it could be if you're a super-high volume user), but you can narrow down your view to a per-app or service view with two taps, and I've also discovered that you can go into a tree-view of all your services, and drill down and navigate that way. For example, you can navigate down the folder structure of your email, and then right below it, navigate through your Twitter mentions/dm's/sent items, etc.
It's also got all kinds of niceties you won't get on say the stock iOS apps - I particularly like being able to select an item, or a date divider, and select "mark unread below", which marks everything before that point in time as read. So it's super quick in the morning to look at email, twitter, facebook, etc, action the high importance stuff, and dump the rest as read.
It's pretty cool, and like I said earlier, a hugely refreshing change from chasing down alerts among 7-8 apps that might or might not be on one screen on iOS.