I hope that
they get the QNX by the end of the year or at the beggining of 2012.
RIM, yes, I know that no one is buying your BlackBerry 7 phones and you're right to want to
get your QNX phones out ASAP, but did you learn nothing from rushing the PlayBook to market before it was ready?
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.
The problem is RIM was dicking around with that garbage playbook and should have been working on trying to
get QNX on single core.
Not exact matches
It's a big day for BlackBerry PlayBook fans - not only have they
got access to new BBC iPlayer and News app icons (yes, icons)- they've also now
got the option of setting their
QNX tabs to Bahasa Indonesian thanks to the launch of BlackBerry Tablet OS... Read more
With RIM now stretching its smartest people between pushing out the PlayBook with it's
QNX - based OS and working on
getting BlackBerry 6.1 out the door for the next generation of phone hardware, we suspect early 2011 to be in a bit of a phone drought.
Hopefully the new
QNX OS system will be on the next phone we
get
I am really hoping that changes because as
QNX and BlackBerry
gets more popular developers are going to look for a standard for application licensing.
I'd like to see my Torch
get an update to
QNX then since it's staying in the 6.0's with the PlayBook
The Playbook took awhile to
get off the ground originally due to the early iteration of the
QNX operating system and the long wait for Android compatibility.
The Blackberry Playbook just
got a new firmware update today that should be pushed to most people's
QNX based tablets.
The BlackBerry PlayBook and its
QNX - based BlackBerry Tablet OS is going to deliver an awesome gaming experience, and we've already seen that EA (who I believe bought your publisher, but now you're so big you don't need a publisher so I don't
get what your corporate dealio is anymore) is working with RIM to put Need for Speed Undercover and Tetris onto the PlayBook.
If
QNX on Playbook is any indication... then the only amazing thing is how much lower their stock can
get.
For $ 199,
got «1 GHz dual - core processor, 16 GB of storage, 1 GB of RAM, GPS for navigation and location - based services, dual HD webcams for video chats and snapping pics, and a highly intuitive BlackBerry Tablet OS based on powerful, user - friendly
QNX technology.»
They need to
get on with
QNX, though it may be way too late.
This is down to both the flexibility of the
QNX OS and the fact that the tablet itself has
got two very important physical attributes to deal with the extra effort required as well.
RIM announces today that the
QNX version of Angry Birds is
getting ready and will be available in BlackBerry App World for download this summer.
With built - in features you can tell RIM is
getting ready to transition into something bigger, being
QNX.
We
get the sense that the line between what is
QNX and what is BB10 will begin to blur in the future, and so licensing BB10 in that area will not only continue, but grow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wake me up when Blackberries
get with the 21st century, run
QNX on a dual core processor and have front facing cameras.
RIM is a genius if they can
get there
QNX OS running on a single core.
shit, you may as well
get a heart attack, but survive thanks to efficient medical equipment that runs
QNX!!!!!!!
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 multitasking.
Rather than task its own in - house Kindle team, Lab 126, to
get up to speed on developing a slate, Amazon supposedly looked to Quanta's existing experience with the PlayBook and the
QNX tablet acted as a «shortcut» of sorts.
There is a reason Symbian died along with Windows 6.5, Blackberry
gets to too hence
QNX.
In this video recorded at the Ask the Experts booth at BlackBerry World, we
get an explanation of how easy it was to port Quake III over to
QNX via the NDK and of course we
get to see some multiplayer first person shoot em up action.
If they
get pushed back any further, they'll
get swallowed up by the upcoming
QNX phones in May 2012.
I'm sure a lot of this customization will
get built into the operating system as RIM pushes the OS through from where it is today to
get ready for
QNX on BlackBerry Smartphones.
I think this is an attribute of the
QNX platform (it keeps things secure so no single app can affect another app or crash the system), but someway somehow RIM is going to have to
get apps talking to each other if they want to deliver a compelling user experience.
Don't
get started that
QNX is a new OS and so it takes time to develop apps for it, No my friend
QNX is not new OS, it already existed before and only its is NEW to BlackBerry.
Developer Adam Bell managed to beat RIM to the punch in figuring how to
get native
QNX SDK code to run on the BlackBerry PlayBook.
As our colleague Bill Ray wrote on Monday, «The
QNX - based BlackBerry 10 will need applications written in C++, using Qt — or WebWorks for the AJAX crowd — while those still sitting on the fence can use the Android runtime or even resort to a bit of Adobe AIR to
get their apps working.»