RIM (Research In Motion) today official announced the new members of its BlackBerry 7
OS smartphone line, the BlackBerry Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370.
Not exact matches
Demand for its once famous BlackBerry
line of
smartphones has seen a sharp and steady decline and the company's revamped
OS, the BB10, hasn't exactly fared too well.
It is their flagship
OS that has been used in their entire
line of
smartphones over the last few years.
To be fair, the Apple iPad is also built on hardware architecture closer to a
smartphone than a notebook, and it runs the iPhone mobile
OS rather than a desktop
OS like Mac
OS X. So, it is understandable that the
lines get blurry in some areas.
It would stimulate sales for its
line of
smartphones and tablets using the
OS.
The BlackBerry
OS is a proprietary mobile operating system developed by BlackBerry for use on the popular
line of BlackBerry
Smartphones.
In addition to top - of - the -
line performance, functionality and features, the BlackBerry Bold 9650
smartphone comes with BlackBerry (R)
OS 5.
The
smartphone will be the next in
line to get Android Oreo
OS, followed by more of the company's
smartphones.
BlackBerry says that BlackBerry
OS 10.3.1 update is rolling out «around the world» and will be available for the entire
line of
smartphones running on BlackBerry 10.
Bottom
line, it seems that HMD has pulled off a fast and presumably silky smooth
OS revision, proving once again it knows how to listen to consumer needs and deliver on key promises, despite lacking the experience of other
smartphone manufacturers.
Though the
OS featured a unique take on the concept of a
smartphone operating system, including a tile - based, highly - customizable home screen, it was held back by a disappointing device
line - up and a lack of apps.
The Sharma also noted that the switch to stock would allow it to better roll out updates to the company's
line of
smartphones, including an Android
O update sometime after Google releases the final version of the operating system later this year.
Announced at Google I /
O, Android 7.0 is headed to the new Nexus
line - up, upcoming
smartphones that are codenamed Marlin and Sailfish.
The lock screen of a
smartphone at times seems like the front
line of the
OS wars.
Sure, it's based off of Android 7.1 Nougat, which has some features that aren't available outside of the Pixel
line quite yet, but there's a more polished feel to the
OS than on previous Google
smartphones.
Intex, an Indian mobile vendor in partnership with Jolla, the maker of Sailfish
OS and Jolla Phone, has announced Aqua Fish
smartphone, which is powered by Sailfish 2.0, the latest version of the mobile operating system, which works on the
lines of Linux family.
After Google has just released the latest Android
OS for some of their Nexus devices but also for some of the Google Play edition handsets, the Motorola
smartphone users will be happy to hear that they are the next in
line.