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RIM Confirms Android Apps Will Run On Playbook, Through Intermediate Players

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 24, 2011 @04:38PM from the when-fruit-meets-robot-companion dept.

angry tapir writes "Research In Motion has announced that users of its PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android and Java applications. The PlayBook, which becomes available on April 19, will have two optional 'app players' that will provide run-time environments for BlackBerry Java apps and Android 2.3 apps. The players will let users download BlackBerry Java Apps and Android Apps from BlackBerry App World."

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Let's wait for the benchmarks, shall we? by ChunderDownunder · 2011-03-24 18:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

It's possible Dalvik apps could run *faster* on the new Blackberry than on Android!
QNX is an embedded RTOS that's allegedly light years ahead of Linux for certain things. If RIM have managed to port Dalvik to QNX minus the design choices of Google's Linux-fork, Dalvik could seem just as 'native' on QNX than the 'official' Android.