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RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX

Posted by Soulskill on from the reinventing-the-reinvented-wheel dept.

New submitter HommeDeJava writes "Research In Motion unveiled a new operating system for its tablet and smartphones at the company's BlackBerry developer conference in San Francisco. Called BlackBerry BBX, the new OS combines features of the existing BlackBerry OS and its recently acquired real-time QNX OS. Could BBX attract software developers and spur interest from consumers?"

4 of 262 comments (clear)

  1. Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought this was going to be a cut and paste of the BSD is dying usenet message from the 1990s.

  2. Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    I already know the future. Fail, of the epic kind.

    I prefer fail of the EEPROM kind.

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    These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
  3. Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    The sort of fail that can be totally erased by 30 minutes of hard UV is sadly rare these days...

  4. correction by mevets · · Score: 1, Funny

    not pronto, procnto is the process manager in qnx.