19 October 2011 | Author: R Wood Media Intern
Hot on the heels of the BlackBerry blackout, smartphone maker RIM has announced its next-generation operating system, BBX.
RIM founder, president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis took to the stage at the BlackBerry Developer conference in San Francisco to announce all the latest from RIM.
While many techhies and developers anticipated an announcement about the poorly-selling PlayBook, what they got instead was a promise of a forthcoming operating system.
Essentially, the QNX platform that powers the PlayBook will now also power BlackBerry devices. The next-generation mobile platform will take the best features from BlackBerry and the QNX platform - combining them to create a sleek new operating system.
RIM also announced developer tool updates, including WebWorks for BlackBerry, the Native SDK for the PlayBook tablet, along with a developer beta version of PlayBook OS 2.0 - which will specifically give support for Android applications.
Though RIM announced BBX at the developers conference in San Francisco, the operating system is still in development and will not yet be released to users or developers.
Ultimately, Lazaridis stayed quiet about when users might expect to see BBX on their phones.
In fact - BlackBerry Developers Conference lacked any concrete details about release dates or any tangible preview of the product itself, though Lazaridis touted the platform to those gathered.
Lazaridis said: "With nearly five million BlackBerry apps downloaded daily, our customers have made BlackBerry one of the most profitable platforms for developers.
"At DevCon today, we're giving developers the tools they need to build richer applications and we're providing direction on how to best develop their smartphone and tablet apps as the BlackBerry and QNX platforms converge into our next generation BBX platform."
RIM keeps quiet on BBX release date
Hot on the heels of the BlackBerry blackout, smartphone maker RIM has announced its next-generation operating system, BBX. RIM founder, president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis took to the stage at the BlackBerry Developer conference in San Francisco to announce all the latest from RIM.
While many techhies and developers anticipated an announcement about the poorly-selling PlayBook, what they got instead was a promise of a forthcoming operating system.
Essentially, the QNX platform that powers the PlayBook will now also power BlackBerry devices. The next-generation mobile platform will take the best features from BlackBerry and the QNX platform - combining them to create a sleek new operating system.
RIM also announced developer tool updates, including WebWorks for BlackBerry, the Native SDK for the PlayBook tablet, along with a developer beta version of PlayBook OS 2.0 - which will specifically give support for Android applications.
Though RIM announced BBX at the developers conference in San Francisco, the operating system is still in development and will not yet be released to users or developers.
Ultimately, Lazaridis stayed quiet about when users might expect to see BBX on their phones.
In fact - BlackBerry Developers Conference lacked any concrete details about release dates or any tangible preview of the product itself, though Lazaridis touted the platform to those gathered.
Lazaridis said: "With nearly five million BlackBerry apps downloaded daily, our customers have made BlackBerry one of the most profitable platforms for developers.
"At DevCon today, we're giving developers the tools they need to build richer applications and we're providing direction on how to best develop their smartphone and tablet apps as the BlackBerry and QNX platforms converge into our next generation BBX platform."
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