Blackberry manufacturer RIM is developing a media box, which is reportedly the codename ‘Cyclone’. The device would be based on the hardware of the Blackberry PlayBook and would feature the new, QNX-based OS from RIM.
The RIM media player would look like a larger version of Blackberry Presenter. That is a small box that can be used to run presentations from a Blackberry smartphone on a pc or laptop to show. The Blackberry Presenter has only a vga and a s-video connection, but the Cyclone would in any case have a hdmi output. The novice would, in contrast to, for example, Apple’s Apple TV media box, mainly for the business market.
The RIM-mediahub would, according to the website Nerdberry have built-in wi-fi, which is more content over a network can be searched for and played back. Also would movies from YouTube and Netflix can be played. It is not yet known which media formats the player can handle.
The hardware of the RIM Cyclone would be similar to that of the Blackberry PlayBook. This tablet is equipped with an Omap 4430-soc from Texas Instruments. This chip has two ARM Cortex-A9-cpu-cores at 1GHz, while for the graphics PowerVR SGX540-gpu integrated.
RIM has not yet confirmed that to the media box works, but it allegedly appears the Cyclone in the autumn of this year on the market.
