The Blackberry PlayBook hasn’t been released yet but RIM head-honcho Mike Lazaridis is talking big. He says the Blackberry PlayBook OS is the future direction for ALL Blackberry smartphones and is the magic bullet that will bounce Blackberry into the next stage of its development. He predicts that the QNX-based Blackberry PlayBook OS will migrate to multi-core Blackberry smartphones and other tablets in the next few years…
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The Blackberry Blackpad, RIM’s long-rumoured and so far unseen iPad rival, will arrive next week according to a new report. The Blackberry tablet which we’ve heard whispers about for months will allegedly break cover during RIM’s Developer Conference in San Francisco…
The Blackberry BlackPad sadly didn’t break cover when the Blackberry Torch 9800 was unveiled but hey, that means the intriguing rumours can continue. The latest comes truly from left-field: a new report says the Blackpad won’t run the Blackberry 6 OS but instead turn to QNX, the software maker that powers Porsche navigation systems and US Army Crusher tanks. Is RIM really turning away from its own OS for the tablet?