The QNX CAR OS that's used for factory automobile infotainment systems supports Flash for GUI elements.
The new
QNX car display has the same web browser as the PlayBook, some familiar looking applications and even the same App World icon that we are used to seeing.
The video is a demonstration of the latest
QNX CAR 2 in car solution from QNX based on HTML5 and although I can't confirm that the dashboard display is a BlackBerry PlayBook it may well be.
Software support for i.MX 6 includes, Green Hills Software INTEGRITY RTOS, Mentor Graphics ® Nucleus RTOS, Mentor Embedded IVI and Mentor Embedded Linux, QNX and
QNX CAR ™ 2 application platform, WindRiver Linux and VxWorks RTOS, Adeneo Embedded, Digi International, Oracle ® Java SE Embedded, TimeSys LinuxLink, and YOUi Labs» Natural User Interface.
All of this tech is part of
the QNX CAR application platform 2.0 that QNX, a subsidiary of RIM (yes, that RIM), wants even more automakers to adopt.
To prove the QNX platform isn't just for quarter - million dollar cars,
the QNX Car application platform is also being shown at CES in a Jeep Wrangler.
Not exact matches
As of last year, Blackberry was estimating that around 30 million
cars on the road used
QNX, with 11 million of them sold just in 2012.
For instance, CarPlay can run on a system that's based on
QNX, simply handing control of the
car's screen and audio over to the iPhone when it's connected.
QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's
car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.
Software made by
QNX is already used by Ford to build its in -
car infotainment systems.
The Canadian software firm's
QNX division showed off its latest technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Wednesday, which demonstrated how
cars can communicate with each other as well as traffic lights to improve traffic flow and prevent collisions.
Over at the Globe and Mail, I popped in on
QNX, the Ottawa - based software company owned by smartphone maker BlackBerry, to see what was new and also to see what they thought of the big news of Google's Open Automotive Alliance, which will be pushing Android onto
cars starting this year.
Apple is reportedly prioritizing working on the software for a driverless
car, rather than building one from scratch, as is indicated by its hiring of Dan Dodge, the founder of
QNX and one of the premiere experts in
car software.
As per the blog, BlackBerry
QNX plans to hire local software engineers to work on connected and autonomous
car projects.
A likely option,
QNX's Gryc says, is to restrict nonessential services available to the driver while the
car is in motion, and freeing them for use when the vehicle is parked.
Sync 3 is built around the
QNX operating system owned by BlackBerry, the most - used operating system for
car infotainment.
Ford's third - generation touchscreen infotainment system, Sync 3, will be making the leap from the Microsoft - based technology in use since 2007 to Blackberry's
QNX in -
car operating system, the automaker announced December 11.
A self - driving
car equipped with the BlackBerry
QNX autonomous vehicle software has completed its first road test in the public streets of Ottawa as a part of the Canadian tech company's broader autonomous driving push.
BlackBerry 10 is based on the
QNX operating system, which is popular in industrial computers and used in many
car computers, which was acquired by BlackBerry in April 2010.
QNX, pronounced «quenix», powers everything from elements of your
car to the fountains in front of the hotels in Las Vegas.
With
QNX being part of the BlackBerry family it would make sense and it would be great to see the
car OS being an extension of the smartphone.
Sitting down at CES in the
QNX - powered Porsche Concept
Car The $ 500 Desktop Clock App for BlackBerry that I was dumb enough to buy Closing the BlackBerry App Gap A look at BlackBerry Tag - Now available on OS 7.1 devices Hands On with the WHITE BlackBerry Curve 9360
[youtube video link for mobile viewing] I'm seriously pi $ $ ed I spent $ 500 on that BlackBerry clock app yesterday as that money really needs to be going into my new
car fund so I can pick up some new wheels when the
QNX concepts being shown off at CES2012 hit the market.
Sitting down at CES in the
QNX - powered Porsche Concept
Car... Crazy Awesome In -
Car Infotainment That I Wantz to Have NAO!
With a
QNX - based tablet talking to a
car running
QNX computers, the integration CAN go real deep.
And below you can check out the
QNX Corvette that was on display, where I get a great walk through of how
QNX can be used in
cars today, and also get a look at what it is coming tomorrow.
The PlayBook runs RIM's new BlackBerry Tablet OS, based on software from RIM subsidiary
QNX, which builds operating systems for everything from in - dash
car appliances to electric guitars.
BlackBerry's
QNX software already powers Ford's SYNC 3 Infotainment system, and is found in 60 million
cars from other carmakers.
QNX is everywhere... in nuclear plants, casinos, space shuttles,
cars, shit, playbook could comunicate with any
car as it was shown already by RIM... let alone that
QNX allows you to comment your shitty ideas here in this blog.
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Custom - modifying a Porsche 911's dash and center stack,
QNX showed Electronista an interface very heavily inspired by the
QNX - based BlackBerry PlayBook but tailored just to the environment of a
car.
A side section of RIM's booth at CES 2012 was dedicated to showing off the results of
QNX's work in
car dash technology since it was bought by RIM.
Yes
QNX existed but in things like
cars and routers a heck of a lot different than a tablet OS and you know that.
BlackBerry will now offer its
QNX automotive software to Tata Motors - owned Jaguar, which could also enable its
cars with self - driving technology.
The BlackBerry employees who are working on Apple's
car software were identified to be former software engineers of the BlackBerry
QNX platform that powers infotainment systems of
cars.