BlackBerry to Bring 3D Gaming to the Masses

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If you thought that email, IM, 3G connections, GPS navigation and all those hundreds of thousands applications for your smartphone where “far enough”, you haven’t seen them all, as Research in Motion has announced today at the BlackBerry Developers Conference that they’ll start to offer 3D support for their smartphone.

In other words, those running a new JavaSDK with BlackBerry OS 5.0 are able to use the OpenGL ES graphics which means green light to gaming and or other 3D apps — a platform used by many of the world’s high-power smartphones for delivering killer games.

Other than bringing a smile to the faces of those who were looking for some action on their smartphones while on the subway, RIM also announced today that they’ll offer better support for developers, will allow them to easily integrate paid ads into the apps they build and to take micropayments (the BlackBerry Payment Service has been announced for mid-2010 availability).

On top of that, there’s a new plugin for the Eclipse development environment that brings a GUI builder that streamlines making interfaces.

Available in beta at the time you read this, the new SDK is expected to become available, starting today.