RIM launching tablet device at Developer Conference, BlackBerry handsets using new OS?

By on Sep 21, 2010 at 8:09 PM
mobile September 21, 2010

This is something that has been rumored about for a while, so here is what the Wall Street Journal is reporting… RIM will announce and show off their new tablet device at DevCon in San Francisco next week at their BlackBerry Developer Conference. Moreover, RIM has even larger plans for the new OS the tablet will run. What is said to happen, and something we have figured would happen, is that the new OS that is powering the BlackPad (or whatever name BlackBerry selects) based on work from QNX, a company RIM acquired early this year, will also power BlackBerry smartphones in the near future. This would give Research In Motion a clean break from their aging operating system which is basically tapped out right now. If RIM continues to use the current BlackBerry OS for future devices, their ability to innovate and advance along with the rest of the industry will be pretty limited. With a new OS, however, this could be great news for Canada’s favorite tech company. Food for thought, though? The OS that is currently powering the Blackberry tablet and ultimately BlackBerry smartphones is based on Adobe Flash.

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  • dwb

    QNX supports HTML 5, Adobe Flash, and is POSIX compliant. Android API is not hard to implement. All other BB app’s can be implemented easily, if not already done.

    QNX supports (now) multi-core’s processors, including ARM Cortex-A15 AT 2.5 GHz.

    http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/09/arm-reveals-eagle-core-as-cortex-a15-capable-of-quad-core-compu/

    That leaked engineering prototype of touch screen phone may be the first QNX powered RIMM (LTE capable) phone heading to VZN and other operators worldwide.

  • Steven F

    Okay, this article says the OS is Flash based… I am not extremely familiar with this, but QNX Operating systems are Unix based correct?

    • avh

      QNX started as a message-passing real-time OS instead of the typical large kernel that one accesses via system calls. It’s lineage is independent of Unix but as time went by it became POSIX (and Unix) compatible. It has true real-time performance (bounded context-switch times, not just good interrupt latency). It runs on just about anything, including pared down to an embedded system with no disk (perhaps the confusion about ‘flash based’ is referring to flash memory?).

  • Steven F

    To follow-up on my previous comment. I can understand that Flash could be used for GUI and all that, but what do you mean by stating the OS is Flash based?

    Most analysts agree that QNX OS is suited for Tablet better than Android or iOS, so maybe RIM can make this work, and since QNX is behind Crusher Tank Technology, security should not suffer… we will see.

    • gquaglia

      Who cares. Marketing is key and Apple is the king of marketing.

  • SVELTE

    RIM, instead of expanding the product line you need to fix the existing lackluster product line… for christsake RIM!

  • Ez

    Apps, user interface and functionality is what drives phone sales these days. Unfortunatelly talking and texting Is on second place if not third. Bb app store. – it’s simply attrocious ! Comon now ppl! Can’t compare to iPhone or android. I hope bb gets their shit together , and to the guy who said there is nothing 9700 can’t do that iPhone or android can’t , are u kidding me? How about everything besides talk and text . Common dude join 2010 with the rest of us

    • Topher86

      Well, to be honest, a fair comparison between the iPhone and 9700 would be comparing them minus the app stores. Straight out the box, the 9700 can go toe to toe w/ the iPhone, maybe even surpass it in some aspects. Just look at the specs between the devices…

      • http://www.yanofit.com nikatnight

        9700 is the best full keyboard, nontouch phone. the camera is excellent, the feel and build quality are stellar, the screen is great. the apps are great too like vlingo (blows away the iphone and android versions), texttwist, etc.

        but touch phones are smoother on the web for sure. with that in mind android is clunky and multitasking sucks and ios is too plain and noncustomizable. so everyone grab a pre and be happy until new hardware blows your face off.

    • russ

      “Apps, user interface and functionality is what drives phone sales these days.”

      not in developing markets where the number of consumers based on population is like what – 100:1 compared to those of us in 1st World Market. You think a guy in India or China wants much more than the basics. I disagree with you.

  • Mason

    The only thing is the iPhone is more intuitive and easier to use device compared to the blackberry. Android on the other hand has no upperhand in my opinion compared to Blackberry where it is just as difficult with the menu system and the non intuitive copy and paste.

    However I hope RIM will release something worth while and a game changer next week for my opinion can change.

    • Tdot34

      you would have to be functionally retarded to find the BlackBerry OS difficult to use.

      Setting up email is a walk in the park too, unlike on Android where you have to set up incoming and outgoing server addresses, whether its IMAP or POP3, most users have no clue what that even means. With a BB all you do is email and password, and it figures out the rest.

      • serpentor

        Mason’s an iPhone user. iPhone users would find a toaster difficult to use.

  • BBlvR

    QNX is not based on “Flash”. New reporters required, immediately. The amount of trash posted as fact at BGR has risen ten fold in the last year.

  • Max

    By using a new OS, they are basically saying their old OS, which was ‘fine’ with all Blackberry Morons, is obsolete. Who gives a shit. Really.

  • http://www.access-recovery-software.com/ access recovery

    Will the BlackPad and a newly-developed mobile OS be enough to help RIM compete against the iPhone and Android-powered devices?

  • MadSkillz

    I have no opinion nor any doom and gloom commentary until I actually see the device.

  • http://goodregistrycleaner.com Carl

    The OS that is currently powering the Blackberry tablet and ultimately BlackBerry smartphones is based on Adobe Flash.

    What is the current OS of the Blackberry Smartphone? is it Microsoft? if it is they didn’t think it threw I love some of their stuff but I must say I had a Blackberry and never again it was the worst any OS is a improvement or else put a quadcore processor in it with about thirty Gigs of ram

    I must say I would like to see Blackberry go for a screen like the amazon Kindle it is easy on the eyes for long reading, not going to happen probably.

  • http://www.x5y5.com/ Scerklamm

    Great.I agree with you.(………..)Thanks..(Daily Breaking News)

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