We reported yesterday about
the QNX powered Porsche sighted at CES, 2012.
But for now we have our doubts whether this is the first
QNX powered BlackBerry Smartphone.
The emulator will enable
the QNX powered BlackBerry hardware and the PlayBook to run Android apps up to those compatible with Froyo, but will not be able to run apps built for Gingerbread, Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich.
While we're all still excited about the new BlackBerry 7 devices that will soon be hitting store shelves, we all know they are just a stop gap for RIM's next big thing which is
QNX powered smartphones.
Our money is you'll start to see the first
QNX powered devices sometime in late 2011 or early 2012, although that is pure speculation rather than fact.
QNX powers the BlackBerry PlayBook as well as the now available BlackBerry Z10 and will be used in future BlackBerry 10 devices.
Not exact matches
Unlike previous versions of the software, SYNC 3 is not
powered by Microsoft's Windows Embedded Automotive OS, but rather by BlackBerry's Unix - like
QNX system.
Gartner also assumes that no other tablet competitors will really matter in the coming years, aside from RIM's
QNX -
powered BlackBerry PlayBook.
After seeing what
QNX was about yesterday, there seemed little reason for Research In Motion to not adopt the operating system full time for their smartphones; the OS has a mind for stability, lower
power consumption, efficiency, a wide variety of developer platform support, as well as rich multimedia capabilities ranging from Flash to 3D rendering.
BlackBerry announced its
QNX -
powered tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, last fall to much fanfare.
It's because RIM will be abandoning its current BlackBerry OS in favor of
QNX, the operating system that currently
powers the PlayBook.
* 1 GHz Dual Core Processor * 1 GB RAM * 7 inch LCD display with 1024 x 600 screen resolution * Multitouch capacitive display * Dimensions: 130 mm x 194 mm x 10 mm * Weight: 400g * microUSB, micro HDMI and DLNA connectivity * Wi - Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n * Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR *
Powered by
QNX platform with multitasking * Full Adobe Flash 10.1 support * Built - in support for HTML 5 * Video Conferencing with HD Quality and Stereo sound * 5 MP Rear Camera * 3 MP Front Camera * Video playback: 1080p HD video — H. 264, MPEG4, WMV, DivX formats * Audio Playback: MP3, AAC, WMA * Pair with any Blackberry Device (min OS 5.0 device) via Bluetooth for Push Email, Calendar, Docs and BBM
The original Blackberry Playbook ran on the
QNX operating system and this now
powers the internet of things and also automobiles.
The BlackBerry PlayBook has finally gone on sale in the UK, 57 days after it hit shops in the US and a mammoth 9 months after Pocket - lint was first treated to a glimpse of the 7 - inch tablet at the official launch event.The
QNX OS
powered device's initial... Read more
By that time, Android is projected to grab 38.6 % of the market, RIM's
QNX, which
powers BlackBerry PlayBook will have 10 %, and everyone else - MeeGo, WebOS and others - will have a minute 4.2 % combined.
The BlackBerry PlayBook is BlackBerry's first tablet and their first device using a brand new
QNX -
powered operating system.
BlackBerry 10 is a brand new
QNX -
powered operating system built following on the PlayBook OS.
QNX, pronounced «quenix»,
powers everything from elements of your car to the fountains in front of the hotels in Las Vegas.
That BlackBerry Tablet OS is actually
powered by a system called
QNX, an operating system that can be found in countless devices around the world making sure, as the company's founder said in a deep dive session at RIM's developer conference in San Francisco, that the «world stays working».
Since the operating system was first revealed in the Dev Alpha hardware last year in the run up to the launch this January, the
QNX - based BB10 operating system was known for being heavy on hardware resources, needing up to 1 GB of RAM at any single time to
power all of the necessary components, including multitasking and the Android virtual machine at once before any additional programs are used.
And it's not like you can run janky versions of BBOS apps on the PlayBook either; RIM's phones are built on entirely different code than the
QNX base
powering the PlayBook OS.
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
But given that the BlackBerry PlayBook and Dev Alpha — the first two BlackBerry devices running on the next generation
QNX platform that
powers BlackBerry 10 — have not had removable batteries, we weren't sure what would happen for BB10 phones going forward.
RIM's
QNX -
powered BlackBerry PlayBook is up for pre-order today at Carphone Warehouse, Dixons and Best Buy, while its price has been slashed at Amazon
Sitting down at CES in the
QNX -
powered Porsche Concept Car... Crazy Awesome In - Car Infotainment That I Wantz to Have NAO!
RIM has confirmed the pricing and release date for its
QNX -
powered BlackBerry PlayBook tablet device in the UK
To concentrate development efforts on the next set of BlackBerry smartphones
powered by
QNX.
QNX has superior stability, security and better
power management for mobile devices.
BlackBerry's
QNX software already
powers Ford's SYNC 3 Infotainment system, and is found in 60 million cars from other carmakers.
On the
QNX side,
QNX -
Powered...
Both the slate's dual - core processor and
QNX OS had been blamed for the reported
power issues.
The
QNX OS shows its
power!!!
Taking advantage of the multi-tasking
power of the
QNX - based software and the high performance hardware under the hood, BlackBerry 10 delivers an «always in» app experience that is faster and so much more compelling than the «open and close» experience which is standard today on other mobile platforms.
Not just because Android's making great strides, Windows Phone's finally looking fantastic, and the iPhone 5 looms, but because BlackBerry 7 is essentially a stop - gap until the true next - gen BlackBerry is here,
powered by the same
QNX - heart as the BlackBerry PlayBook.
The
QNX - based BlackBerry OS is a
power house among mobile operating systems.
RIM's firsr ever tablet, the PlayBook is running on
QNX based BBOS, A9 dual - core 1 GHz chipset, 7» LCD touch display, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions, 3 Megapixels front facing camera, 5 Megapixels rear facing cameras, supports 1080p HD video recording / playback, Wi - Fi — 802.11 a / b / g / n, support for WebKit / HTML -5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, HDMI - out port and is
powered by 5300mAh battery.
The processing
power isn't there yet,» so presumably the first raft of
QNX phones isn't going to be quite where RIM wants to take the BlackBerry line.
RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook built with
QNX based BlackBerry tablet OS, sporting a 7 inch LCD display, 5MP rear camera, 3MP front - facing camera, Wi - Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n + WiMax (4G), Wi - Fi + LTE, Wi - Fi + HSPA + capabilities, 1080p HD Video Playback Capability, 16 GB / 32 GB / 64 GB memory storage and
powered by a dual - core 1 GHz Cortex A9 - based processor.
RIM's first BlackBerry PlayBook tablet comes with BlackBerry OS with
QNX technology, running on a A9 dual - core 1 GHz chipset, sporting 7» LCD touch display, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions, 3 Megapixels front facing camera, 5 Megapixels rear facing camera, with support for 1080p HD video recording, Wi - Fi — 802.11 a / b / g / n, support for WebKit / HTML -5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Wi - Fi, Bluetooth, 1080p HD video playback with an HDMI - out port, a 3.5 mm headset jack, inbuilt microphone and is
powered by a 5300mAh battery.
The integration, functionality of BlackBerry combined with the ease of use and
power of
QNX — an unbeatable combination.
A nice part of
QNX is that if there's a crash with one app, it won't bring the whole system down, most of the time — that means you won't have to restart your PlayBook device frequently, if ever, which is a good thing since the
power button is useless.
Research in Motion Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced Blackberry's new operating system BBX its integration with the
QNX platform which already
powers the Playbook....
«We look forward to continuing to grow the installed base of PlayBook users and to attracting more and more developers to expand the volume of applications, content and services that leverage the
power of the industry leading
QNX - based platform.»
At just 9.7 mm thick and 7 - inches in the diagonal, the
QNX -
powered tablet is nice looking slab of glass.
RIM Blackberry Playbook, most awesome thing about this demo is to experience the
power of Texas Instruments OMAP4430 ARM Cortex - A9 processor, see how nicely
QNX's embedded Linux OS does multi-tasking.
Rumor has it that RIM is reshuffling its engineering deck, moving resources away from a planned ten - inch BlackBerry PlayBook, and instead focusing efforts on a
QNX -
powered handset, or «Superphone» as rumors have dubbed the device.
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.
The 7 - inch
QNX -
powered tablet will be available from a number of retailers, including Phones 4u and The Carphone Warehouse, and the 16 GB >>
Setup hardware to execute
Power dashboard and non-dashboard test cases on all the platforms
QNX, WoA, WP8, Android