RIM has considered to focus on making Android smartphones. The plan was ultimately rejected, which RIM chose to with BlackBerry 10 yet to continue with their own mobile operating system.
In an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph showed RIM ceo Thorsten Heins know that there are seriously to Android is looked at. According to the director, his company has not finally decided to Android smartphones because Google’s mobile OS is not good enough to be in the area of productivity. According to Heins, is Android, although suitable for games and multimedia, but there would be RIM not mainly want to focus.
According to Heins, there is with Android also very little room for a manufacturer to distinguish itself from the rest. RIM sees more future in the development of your own mobile operating systems. Currently the company is working on the development of BlackBerry 10, which is the very successful BlackBerry 7 operating system must follow. The first aircraft will probably be in January next year.
There were earlier rumors that RIM might be interested in Android. There was a licensing of BlackBerry services for cheap Android smartphones, an idea that was coming would have been of former director Jim Balsillie. The idea would eventually by Heins are rejected. Although RIM so at his old rate seems to sail on, it seems the company’s strategy to change: the upcoming BlackBerry 10 may be licensed to other manufacturers.