RIM has indicated that existing BlackBerry devices, no update will get to the yet to be released BlackBerry OS 10. It is known that applications for the upcoming operating systems will work on older versions.
According to The Inquirer, did the Canadian smartphonefabrikant his statements after the end of the developer conference itself BlackBerry DevCon last week in Amsterdam was held. RIM would again have confirmed that only new BlackBerry’s to the new version of the BlackBerry operating system will run. According to the company, existing devices are not suitable for BlackBerry OS 10 to run; this would be developed for yet unannounced devices.
Had RIM already know, that applications between BlackBerry OS version 10 and the current version 7 compatible. Existing apps will work on devices with the new operating system, while software created for BlackBerry OS 10 backwards compatible with OS 7.
RIM has not yet smartphones with the new operating system. The first announcement of BlackBerry 10 OS 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. The first phones with BlackBerry 10 at the end of this year, said RIM executive director Thorsten Heins during his keynote at BlackBerry DevCon.
