BlackBerry X: RIM's New QNX-Based Platform

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We’ve known for a long time now that RIM is working on a QNX-based operating system both for the BlackBerry PlayBook and its others devices. But all this time we’ve been calling it QNX-based operating system, and we’ve been calling it that for a reason – it doesn’t have a name yet. A recent QNX event in Japan, however, revealed what RIM’s QNX operating system is supposedly called – the BBX.

That’s B-B-X, for you, not BB 10. And that makes sense considering it’s QNX. It happened during this year’s QNX Auto Summit Japan 2011. A particular presentation talked of the QNX Car 2 (which is an in-car system), and if you take a look at one slide pictured below, somewhere in the middle says iOS, Android, and…BBX.

Yes, those are the list of platforms the system supports, and next to iOS and Android, we’re assuming that RIM’s QNX-based OS indeed. Whatever it’s called, we’re just excited to get it, and hoping that it has BES/BIS support unlike what’s leaked earlier on.