Apps now BlackBerry OS running, will also be on the new operating system BlackBerry 10 running. That said manufacturer RIM at its developer conference itself in Amsterdam. The QNX-based operating system by the end of 2012 come true.
Apps are both backward as forward compatible, says ceo Alec Saunders of RIM developer conference itself BlackBerry DevCon, which is Tuesday and Wednesday in Amsterdam. “What you are making now, will continue to work on BlackBerry 10, and all BlackBerry 10 apps will work on current BlackBerry’s.” How that happens is unclear.
The first phones with BlackBerry 10 at the end of this year, said RIM executive director Thorsten Heins during his keynote at BlackBerry DevCon. BlackBerry 10 is no longer based on Java, such as the current BlackBerry OS, but on the Neutrino OS from QNX. RIM took the company two years ago. Neutrino OS was until now mainly applied in automotive electronics.
Heins showed no screenshots of the interface but, instead, know that BlackBerry 10 will appear on the second version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS for the PlayBook. According to Heins to users of BlackBerry 10 will not longer think in applications, because apps with each other to integrate. So are Twitter and Facebook integrated into the calendar and contacts app.
RIM had no smartphones with the new operating system; that will at a later time to happen. The first announcement of BlackBerry 10 took place on the previous DevCon in the United States, in October last year. It was called still BBX, but that name had to be changed due to a legal conflict with a company that the name BBX had already claimed.
