The new unified OS for BlackBerry smartphones and tablets

         

The company Research in Motion (RIM) for BlackBerry DevCon 2011 conference introduced a new version of the operating system for its mobile devices. It is reported by Reuters.

The new platform called BlackBerry BBX. Under its management will be able to work as smart phones and tablets from the Canadian manufacturer. Previously, RIM released two separate operating systems for BlackBerry smartphones and tablet PlayBook.

The basis of BlackBerry BBX will form a platform QNX. Developer QNX, a company QNX Software Systems, RIM bought in 2010. The only modern devices RIM, which use QNX, a tablet PlayBook.

One of the two heads of RIM, Mike Lazaridis (Mike Lazaridis), talking about the new operating system, said that she will inherit the features of OS BlackBerry OS 6 and 7. BBX will support the game with two-and three-dimensional graphics and applications on HTML5.

The first BlackBerry smartphone brands were introduced in 1999. RIM is now seriously loses popularity Android operating system and iOS. According to the service StatCounter, the share of devices with BlackBerry OS has just over 9.4 percent of the market.