RIM announces BlackBerry 7 OS with better browser

Monday, May 2, 2011

RIM announces BlackBerry 7 OS with better browser

in 14:30 GMT , By الصحة الاول

There were rumors about RIM jumping from BlackBerry OS version number 6.1 to 7 but today, with the occasion of launching the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones, RIM made BlackBerry OS 7 official.
The aforementioned smartphone variants will be the ones bringing BlackBerry OS 7 to the masses. The new platform should bring an easier and faster user interface,..

universal voice searches for local and web-related content and an enhanced browser with JIT JavaScript compiler and HTML5 Video support. And if you think your personal and business life can't fit on a single smartphone, BlackBerry OS 7 adds BlackBerry Balance to separate those to aspects of your life.

Update: RIM has just noted that there will be "no legacy support" with BlackBerry 7, meaning that older devices, even those running version 6 of the OS, won't be getting any (official) updates to the latest stuff. This has been justified by how tightly integrated the software build is with the underlying graphics hardware in the touch-capable Bold handsets. Basically, the old phones won't be able to run the new OS. Oh, and in case you were wondering, there's no trace of QNX in BlackBerry 7.

Source: Engadget