BB10 leaked screenshots

RIM is betting big on the success of its BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Here are a few photographs of the final gold master version of the BlackBerry 10 operating system. (Image Credit: BGR)

The BlackBerry 10 smartphone comes with a new gesture-based user interface. (Image Credit: BGR)

BlackBerry 10 operating system is based on QNX, which was acquired by RIM in April 2010. (Image Credit: BGR)

The screenshots reveal everything from the initial startup of the device including the software update checks and a tutorial to the user interface and various apps and settings featured in the OS. (Image Credit: BGR)

BlackBerry 10 is very different from the earlier versions of BlackBerry OS. It has been designed afresh from the ground-up, with an interface optimised for touch-screen devices. (Image Credit: BGR)

BlackBerry Hub acts as the focal-point of the new operating system.It is the one-stop place to access all your messages - from social networking to work and personal emails, from BBM to text-messaging and even voice calls. (Image Credit: BGR)

The screenshot gives a glimpse of what the home screen might look. (Image Credit: BGR)

Users can control their devices with their voice that allows you to orally dictate text and give commands to your BB10 device. (Image Credit: BGR)

The company has spent a lot of time in paying attention to detail with regards to settings for various apps and programs. One can clearly see an example in the Messages, Keyboard and type settings. (Image Credit: BGR)

Users can access deeper settings for Volume and Display amongst other options. (Image Credit: BGR)

The Security and Privacy section has various options like System Wipe and Parental Controls to keep content on the device safe at all time (Image Credit: BGR)

Going further into Parental Controls, we see that users can block access to various features like Facebook, Email or YouTube. (Image Credit: BGR)

Users can also wirelessly share media with other supported DLNA Certified devices.(Image Credit: BGR)

The screenshot here is indicative of 16GB of on-board storage with an additional 30GB external storage accessed by the device. (Image Credit: BGR)

The Accessibility section offers options like enabling the teletypewriter and Magnify mode. (Image Credit: BGR)

Here's the BlackBerry Hub with various options. Under the Text Messages section, users can block incoming texts from unknown senders those containing commercial content such as advertisements.(Image Credit: BGR)

This is how the call log section and the keypad looks like on the BB10 OS.(Image Credit: BGR)

The OS also features a Siri-like voice assistant and we can see that the microphone icon and the appearance of text bears uncanny resemblance to Apple's Siri. It also features multiple language support, which seems pretty impressive coming from RIM. (Image Credit: BGR)

Here we see the calculator and the clock widgets. (Image Credit: BGR)

Here we get a glimpse of Evernote Notebook under the Folders section highlighting the possibility of Evernote integration within BlackBerry's Docs to Go app. (Image Credit: BGR)

The stop watch is part of the clock settings. There's also a pretty neat flipping compass.(Image Credit: BGR)

Users can add URL exceptions to connect to sites with unverified identities. (Image Credit: BGR)

BB10 has a new feature called Print To Go that will allow users to send files wirelessly from their computer to their BB10 device for future printing. (Image Credit: BGR)

The Maps app for BB10 will be providing free turn-by-turn navigation in addition to a full-featured Maps app independent of Google or Bing search. (Image Credit: BGR)

The BB10 OS apparently also comes with extensive NFC integration which includes creating, locking and erasing NFC tags. (Image Credit: BGR)

Users will be able to create tags via web, phone, email, SMS or simply plain text content. (Image Credit: BGR)

Users can keep track of world time and customise clock settings as per their convenience. (Image Credit: BGR)

BlackBerry 10 comes with a new soft-keyboard that learns user habits and gets better at predicting input over time.(Image Credit: BGR)

This is how the setting screen is expected to look on the new BlackBerry 10 smartphone. (Image Credit: BGR)

In case you loose your BlackBerry smartphone, then one can use the 'Security Swipe' feature to erase all your personal data.(Image Credit: BGR)