BB10 launches with 70,000 apps available

Skype, What’s App and Angry Birds will be available to customers buying a Z10 device from tomorrow

The new BB10 Operating System has launched with 70,000 apps available in the BlackBerry World app store, with ‘thousands more added every week’.

At the Z10 launch news conference today (January 30) BlackBerry announced ‘all of the major apps’ would be available including Skype, Amazon, What’s App and Angry Birds all available.

In Autumn and Winter last year, BlackBerry held 15 JAM sessions in North and South America for developers to experiment with BB10 and have out prototypes at the events to ensure apps were ready for today’s launch.