BlackBerry Colt will be the first smartphone running QNX

It is known that RIM continues to prepare smartphones running QNX by the beginning of 2012, but little is known about this. A rumor reached BGR that the first QNX smartphone is called BlackBerry Colt. The source reports that the Colt test sample runs on a single-core processor, although this may change. The source says that RIM also rewrites the BES code to work with QNX, which they already use on the PlayBook. According to rumors, RIM is working on a QNX version of the BES server, and the QNX smartphone will not support the existing version of BES. And that makes sense for a completely new platform. These devices will actually use Microsoft ActiveSync, which will be supported out of the box.

This would be an interesting move by RIM. I’ve been waiting a hundred years for them to add support for ActiveSync, which was completely superseded by BES. It was useful at least for ordinary consumers, so that it was possible to fully synchronize contacts without BES. In any case, BlackBerry Colt is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2012, and the software verification department is already testing the entire device.

All this actually revolves around the head office of RIM ... There are rumors even about the refined OS 7, which I am trying to unearth further. Until then, let the rumors go wild, but we will be skeptical about all of this.