There are a few different features that BlackBerry smartphones are known for, including a notification light, the physical keyboard, and the BlackBerry Hub. And if a new rumor is true, Samsung may soon be cloning one of those features for its own use.
A new report from SamMobile claims that Samsung is working on a BlackBerry Hub-style feature called Samsung Focus. The app will reportedly integrate email, calendar entries, contacts, memos, social networks, and messages, all in a “clean and modern interface” that follows Google’s Material Design guidelines.
It’s said that Focus will let you view and respond to emails and all of your upcoming events as well as contact pages that’ll show all of the messages and calendar invites from each contact. You’ll allegedly be able to set certain contacts and priority, too.
BlackBerry Hub is handy because it saves you time by bringing your emails, messages, social media alerts, and so on into a single inbox so that you don’t have to jump between several apps. A similar feature could make for a nice addition to Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, and it’d be especially interesting to see what it looks like if it does indeed follow Material Design guidelines.
Samsung Focus will reportedly launch with the Galaxy Note 6, which could launch in mid-August if it comes one year after the Galaxy Note 5’s debut.