Earlier today we showed you the video of Research in Motion’s founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis giving a live demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook at the Dive Into Mobile conference yesterday evening. What may even be of more interest, however, are some of the comments he made during his time on stage with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg from All Things Digital…
Of particular note were Lazaridis’s comment’s on BlackBerry 6. When asked about the latest incarnation of the BlackBerry OS, Lazaridis had this to say… “It really is the foundation of us going forward on the BlackBerry”.
As the co-CEO of Research in Motion, unless RIM isn’t looking to sell another BlackBerry device between now and the time a QNX OS based BlackBerry hits the shelves, Lazaridis really couldn’t have said much else. If he had, much like when Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 and their Win Mo 6.5 sales all but completely came to screeching halt, no one would buy a new BlackBerry device if they new RIM was putting all there efforts into a new OS.
Let’s just hope that BlackBerry 6 is the foundation of BlackBerry operating systems going forward for no longer than the time it takes a hardware manufacture to squeeze a dual core processor into a phone small enough to fit into my front pants pocket…. RIM needs a QNX powered BlackBerry ASAP…
I was reading a white paper by nvidia, they seem to be projecting that dual core processors for mobile phones will be the big trend in 2011. It seems like rim is positioning itself to be first in market with one, will be interesting to see when they get their phone out with qnx, I find my android kind of buggy
I am concerned by the dual-core condition to having QNX on the BlackBerry smartphone… Why? Because have you noticed RIM picks processors that are dog clocked slow but have awesome battery life?
When do you think dual-core mobile processors will start to sip power enough for Lazaridis to bless it?
Couple years? Yikes!
The white paper from nvidia on tegra 2 showed performance 3x better than the 1 ghz processor on the galaxy s with 40% improved performance. I’m pretty sure. They r betting the farm on catching this wave, makes all their acquisitions make sense
That 40% was on the battery
But how many users would be willing to sacrifice a bit of battery life for a faster and more responsive BlackBerry OS? Quite a few I think. Get some power under the hood!