We’ve been told earlier by a report according to BG that RIM is already well underway with the development of their first QNX powered BlackBerry smartphone. If true, we should see QNX on a BlackBerr in Q1 – 2012. The report states that as of now the QNX handset has a code name of Colt with no model number announced yet. Continue reading for details.
One of the reasons that the BlackBerry PlayBook launched without native email is that RIM has had to rewrite its BES code in order for it to support the new operating system, and this has proven to be extremely difficult. We have been told that RIM is working on a QNX-specific BlackBerry Enterprise Server, but that the first QNX smartphone will launch without support for current BES versions. The kicker? If companies want to use Microsoft Exchange email on the device, they will actually have to use Microsoft ActiveSync, which the phone will support out of the box.
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