BlackBerry Colt will be the first smartphone running QNX

It is known that RIM continues to prepare smartphones running QNX by early 2012, but little is known about this. A rumor reached BGR that the first QNX smartphone is called a 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 for working with the QNX OS, which they are already using in 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 this makes sense for an absolutely new platform. These devices will actually use Microsoft ActiveSync, which will be supported out of the box.

It would be an interesting move by RIM. I have been waiting for a hundred years when they will add support for ActiveSync, which was completely supplanted by the 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 device.

All this really revolves around the RIM head office ... There are even rumors about a modified OS 7, which I am trying to dig further. Until then, let the rumors rampage, but we will treat all this quite skeptically.