14 DAY TRIAL // Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion confirmed officially a few days ago plans to bring to the market dual-core smartphones too, in line with the latest trends on the market, and with previous rumors on the company's plans for the future.
During the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis confirmed in an interview that the company is readying such devices, though they won't be launched in the near future, that's for sure.
PC Magazine reports that RIM's Co-CEO also confirmed that these devices would run under the new QNX OS (which is powering the company's Blackberry Playbook).
“I've said that we are working on multicore smartphones, and QNX is our multicore platform for those devices. Those devices are both in smartphone and in tablet form,” he stated.
The actual differences from the current BlackBerry 6 platform won't be major ones, it seems, and the general feeling the new OS would offer on the upcoming mobile phones should be similar with what the BlackBerry platform delivers today.
Another interesting piece of information that Lazaridis unveiled was that future QNX-based devices might offer support for existing BlackBerry Java applications too, so that the transition from an OS to the other would be a smooth one.
However, while other mobile phone makers already unveiled their first dual-core smartphones, RIM is not jumping the gun, as it already has a ten-year plan on its mind.
“What we're setting up is for the next 10 years of BlackBerry. We just finished the first 10 years, actually closer to 12 - the first decade of BlackBerry. Now we're setting up for the next decade of BlackBerry. Right? That's what we're doing,” he said.
One thing that wasn't unveiled, but which might come to shelves sooner rather than later, would be 4G-capable BlackBerry devices. Nothing was announced officially on this until now, but, as Mike Lazaridis noted in the said interview, RIM was mum on the 4G PlayBook too until the very last moment.