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RIM's BBX BlackBerries Will Mimic PlayBook and Support BES

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Nov 9, 2011, 1:35 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

Research In Motion's forthcoming BBX-based BlackBerry smartphones will match the PlayBook tablet display's aspect ratio and 1024 x 600 pixel count in order to maximize application compatibility between the PlayBook and BBX BlackBerries. Alec Saunders, RIM's vice president of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development, told PCMag.com, "Look, if you build [an app] for the PlayBook, then it will run on BBX. We have maintained aspect ratios, BBX also has the ability to upload multiple dimension graphics … [and the standard resolutions] are the same as PlayBook." Saunders also said the first wave of BBX BlackBerries will support RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server. BES support is necessary for the BlackBerries to include email, contacts, and calendar management tools out of the gate. BBX is the new platform that RIM intends to use for its future smartphones. It combines elements of the PlayBook's QNX operating system with the current BlackBerry OS 7 operating system to create a new, combined smartphone/tablet platform. RIM's first BBX devices are expected to launch during the first half of 2012.

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Nov 9, 2011, 5:10 PM

What will the first one be called?

I wonder if the first BBX is going to be called? The "Bold Fail" ?
 
 
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