RIM's QNX-powered BlackBerry smartphones to support Android apps

By on Aug 24, 2011 at 6:35 PM
mobile August 24, 2011

Research In Motion’s upcoming QNX-powered BlackBerry smartphones will support the ability to run Android applications when they hit store shelves, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The Waterloo, Canada-based company is adding the option in an effort to attract consumers who may have otherwise ditched their BlackBerry devices for iOS or Android, two operating systems with a much larger selection of apps. RIM has confirmed that its QNX-powered BlackBerry PlayBook will also run Android applications and we’ve seen a few pictures of it in action, but the company has yet to deploy a software update enabling it. Bloomberg also noted that the PlayBook will receive a software patch in September that will add the company’s Android app player, as well as fully functional BlackBerry Messenger and e-mail applications. RIM’s first QNX phone, the BlackBerry Colt, is thought to be launching either in the fourth quarter of 2001 or the first quarter of 2012.

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  • Jimpjr

    BlackBerry will definitely be KINGS again after this develops

  • Max

    You gotta be some kind of dumb fck to believe this

    • Steve Jenkins

      do you know what Bloomberg is? I can tell you one thing, they dont use the same analysts as fucking BGR does. Basically what I’m saying here is that I hate you, wish you would lose function in your fingers and your an idiot for thinking Bloomberg has no credibility…Oh, and tell your sis I said “What Up bitch!”

      • Max

        She said she wants the dildo she left in your ass back

      • Steve Jenkins

        That would be impossible, Im not human, I dont have an asshole…

      • Applesucksfatties

        @google-62fe04bcd77ee15f11fe8532e9ac130a:disqus  – yes you do have an a$$hole… it’s name is Max and diarrhea come out of it on a daily basis.

      • Steve Jenkins

        oh, thats what that is…

  • http://profiles.google.com/deathcommand Hans Lee

     RIM’s first QNX phone, the BlackBerry Colt, is thought to be launching either in the fourth quarter of 2001 or the first quarter of 2012.
    I don’t think the PlayBook existed in the fourth quarter of 2001.

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