«There is certainly no doubt that many carmakers have expressed the idea that a more standardized platform would be attractive,» said John Wall, a senior vice president
at QNX, which develops software that is used in millions of vehicles today.
Not exact matches
Chenalso highlighted BlackBerry's
QNX division, which works on technology that will fuse with automobiles, and said new technology from the division will be showcased
at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month.
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.
I'm going to be meeting with BlackBerry and talking about the investments they've made in
QNX, an additional $ 100 million, to really look
at how they can adapt their software and security technologies with Ford and other vehicles and really help drive the autonomous vehicle initiatives in Canada.
Looking forward, Chen hinted
at a new Internet of things product announcement
at CES 2016 in early January as the company demonstrates its
QNX platform.
The company's
QNX unit, renamed BlackBerry
QNX, currently employs around 400 engineers, some three - quarters of them
at its facility in Kanata on the outskirts of Ottawa.
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.
Following news that RIM made an initial build of its
QNX - based OS simulator available for Windows and Mac, company Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis demoed RIM's tablet live for the first time this morning
at >>
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
For me any phone upgrade
at this time would have to be a device with
QNX
Phones 4u has spilled the beans regarding the UK arrival of the BlackBerry PlayBook - the 7 - inch tablet will be hitting shops on 16 June.Priced
at # 399.95 for the 16 GB version, or # 559.95 for the 64 GB one - RIM fans can pre-order the
QNX slate now.The... Read more
With these factors in mind, within a couple of years, we expect Apple to maintain the lion's share of the growing tablet market —
at least somewhere in the 50 % to 60 % range — with Android next, and the rest splitting the difference, including RIM's PlayBook /
QNX platform, Palm's WebOS, and whatever Microsoft eventually brings to the game.
Back
at BlackBerry DevCon, Mike Lazaridis announced that the new BlackBerry /
QNX platform would further be known as BBX.
With the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet using the
QNX - based BlackBerry Tablet OS and RIM's Co-CEO saying that you will (
at some point) see
QNX on BlackBerry Smartphones, the hope / possibility existed that
QNX could be on the next BlackBerry you run out and buy.
QNX will most likely not make it to phones until next year but 6.1 looks better than what android is offering right now to me
at least.
The confirmation came
at the BlackBerry Developer's Conference (DEVCON) in San Francisco when a senior RIM executive let it slip that the
QNX Operating System will be the standard OS in all BlackBerry branded tablets or smartphones of the future.
Research In Motion launched BlackBerry BBX
at the developer's DevCon event in America — as the next generation of their mobile platform, which takes the best parts of the BlackBerry 7 operating system and their tablet
QNX platform.
Today we take a look
at the Blackberry Playbook running
QNX and the T - Mobile G - Slate running Google Android 3.0!
Saunders» description of the first BBX phones also agrees with what RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis said
at a meeting all the way back in January when we asked him what the then - unnamed,
QNX - based phone OS would look like.
Like the look of the BlackBerry PlayBook, but concerned about the obvious lack of apps?Well, worry no longer as reports suggest that the
QNX platform tablet could be compatible with the thousands (130 of them
at the last count) of Android apps.A Bloomberg... Read more
Dan Dodge, founder of
QNX, has confirmed that current apps will work, although
at present (end of September) exact details of that are still to be ironed out.
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.
I have to admit, I'm really excited to see what RIM has to show for a tablet and what it will bring, especially now that we know it's rockin» an OS by
QNX Software Systems and not an enlarged version of BlackBerry 6 as we assumed
at WES.
With these factors in mind, within a couple of years, we expect Apple to maintain the lion's share of the growing tablet market — settling
at least somewhere in the 50 % to 60 % range — with Android next, and the rest splitting the difference, including RIM's PlayBook /
QNX platform, Palm's WebOS, and whatever Microsoft eventually brings to the game.
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
Something that I'm sure some will say is a bad thing
at this point, claiming RIM needs a complete overhaul to
QNX on their smartphones but realistically - RIM will do fine with BlackBerry 7 for now.
[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.
At the core, BlackBerry 10 is running on the same
QNX - based platform that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is built on.
Now the reports are saying
qnx phones wont come until the 2nd quarter next year
at the earliest.
Now we did get word
at DEVCON last week that the new
QNX OS we saw on the PlayBook will be coming to BlackBerry handhelds in the future, but we don't know how far we are from seeing that.
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!
At the moment the
QNX - based BlackBerry 10 platform is expected to arrive on new handsets in the second half of 2012 and updates should then rollout to existing handsets too.
The folks over
at BGR have managed to get the exclusive scoop on what is said to be the first
QNX phone from RIM.
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.
Well, worry no longer as reports suggest that the
QNX platform tablet could be compatible with the thousands (130 of them
at the last count) of Android apps.
At MWC 2011 we got up close with the BlackBerry Playbook which is RIM's Tablet running on the BlackBerry Tablet OS (
QNX).
Besides the more of the same
QNX UI we're used to seeing on the tablet, we get another glimpse
at Android apps running smooth as butter on the device.
Such «seismic» change isn't on the cards, as far as he's concerned, but there's «a lot of structural change» already ongoing, including the move to
QNX on the software side, and we're assured that «there is no standstill
at any moment»
at RIM.
The announcement that
QNX developer phones would be present
at the BlackBerry Developers Conference next month definitely came as a surprise to me.
On the recent RIM earnings call one of the most unexpected things said by RIM's Founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis was this: «Well, we've got a lot of planned announcements
at DevCon in October, and we've got — we'll be announcing our new development platform for
QNX and our
QNX - based phones.
Well, my guess is that the early limited production BlackBerry Colt units that RIM has been running and developing
QNX on will now become the development phones that they'll show off
at BlackBerry DevCon.
Over
at BGR, a new device and a new name is being tossed around and is purported to be the first
QNX smartphone RIM.
Over a breakfast event today
at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, a RIM VP confirmed that the
QNX operating system announced in their new PlayBook tablet would in fact be finding its way to smartphones in the long run, and ultimately replace the existing BlackBerry OS.
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at the BlackBerry Beta ZoneCars @ BlackBerry World: Jaguar w / BlackBerry Integration and
QNX Concept CorvetteNew Demo Video Showing off the Android App Player on the BlackBerry PlayBook...
RIM's native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook - demonstrated
at BlackBerry World 2011 earlier this week - isn't expected until sometime this summer, but one developer has already figured out a way to bypass the existing Adobe AIR environment and get
QNX native code running on the 7 - inch tablet.
At the demo I got today, BB10 flowed nicely, and was both quick and stable, no doubt thanks to QNX, which serves as the basis for BB10 and the PlayBook OS, as it excels at multitaskin
At the demo I got today, BB10 flowed nicely, and was both quick and stable, no doubt thanks to
QNX, which serves as the basis for BB10 and the PlayBook OS, as it excels
at multitaskin
at multitasking.
As a
QNX - based system, the PlayBook OS gives us our best guess so far
at what RIM might be thinking for BlackBerry 10.