BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Pics Leak [Pictures Of BlackBerry QNX-Based PlayBook OS Version 2.0 Land Online, Missing BES Support, Has Android Icon]

Posted on TFTS by Mariella Moon on Monday, 29. August 2011 under: Computers & Computing, PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets

Pictures of RIM’s QNX-based BlackBerry PlayBook OS version 2.0 were recently leaked online by a Chinese site. A few changes on the OS are evident by the leaked pictures, and if you’re interested in what they are (especially you folks near Harvey Norman’s Computers in Australia where PlayBook seems to have done well upon its release), hit the break.

As you can see on the Accounts setup page below, the version 2 of BlackBerry PlayBook’s OS includes native email, calendar, and contacts option. But among the choices of the things you can sync (Exchange/ActiveSync, IMAP, POP, CalDav, and CardDav), the BlackBerry Enterprise Server email syncing option is noticeably missing. Still, this might just be a working early version of the 2.0, and the end product might include BES.

Another prominent update is what seems to be native Android support as evidenced by the Android icon below. If that pushes through, you’d be able to get Android apps on your BlackBerry PlayBook when the OS 2.0 arrives.