{"id":1126,"date":"2013-02-23T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2013-02-23T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:30:13","slug":"from-the-car-to-your-phone-how-blackberry-ported-over-qnx-for-its-new-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/02\/23\/from-the-car-to-your-phone-how-blackberry-ported-over-qnx-for-its-new-os\/","title":{"rendered":"From the car to your phone: How BlackBerry ported over QNX for its new OS"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, you know all about BlackBerry 10, with its myriad gestures, its bustling notifications Hub, and the BlackBerry Balance mode, which separates work-centric applications and accounts from personal ones. You may also be aware that BlackBerry is hedging its bets on these features, which are the main attractions behind the newly overhauled mobile operating system. All of these features are made possible by QNX\u2019s real-time operating system\u2014one that the Canada-based company takes great pride in.
\nBlackBerry (n\u00e9e RIM) acquired QNX Systems in April 2010 with the intention of gaining a major foothold in the automotive industry. Although QNX has its hand in several automotive projects\u2014the QNX Car Platform 2.0 is featured in the Bentley Continental GT, for instance, and the software has historically been embedded in the control systems of other high-end luxury vehicles\u2014BlackBerry\u2019s focus, for now, remains on its mobile devices, and it\u2019s using this acquisition to hold on to its relevance in the mobile operating system wars.
\nWhile BlackBerry 10 still hasn’t officially debuted in the United States, we thought we’d take a look at the framework behind BlackBerry 10 and see how the company’s acquisition of this real-time operating system has been implemented in its new OS.
\nIt started with the PlayBook<\/p>\n

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The seven-inch PlayBook was the initial debut of the QNX kernel on a BlackBerry device. It had been designed with a custom user interface to work in conjunction with a tethered BlackBerry handset (the tablet didn’t even have its own native e-mail client) but the PlayBook wasn’t exactly a bestseller.
\nRegardless, it was still the beginning of the QNX revolution for BlackBerry and was essentially a test subject for the company to discover how it would move forward with its new acquisition. In October 2011, BlackBerry announced that it would fuse together the best parts of its BlackBerry OS with the QNX operating system featured on the PlayBook. Then-CEO Mike Lazaridis had said that the software, initially dubbed BBX, was intended to make it easier for developers to write applications that work interchangeably on both BlackBerry phones and tablets, and that \u201cthe whole company is aligning behind this single platform and single vision.\u201d
\n\u201cPlayBook was a big step in that journey [to BlackBerry 10],\u201d said Sebastien Marineau, senior vice president of QNX Engineering and BlackBerry OS, in a phone interview with Ars. \u201cIt was more than just QNX\u2014it was really a reinvention of the software platform for RIM.\u201d
\nFull Story: From the car to your phone: How BlackBerry ported over QNX for its new OS | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now, you know all about BlackBerry 10, with its myriad gestures, its bustling notifications Hub, and the BlackBerry Balance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[131,869],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-technology","tag-blackberry-10","tag-qnx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-ia","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8449,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2015\/07\/06\/this-week-in-tech-517-the-pharoah-has-spoken\/","url_meta":{"origin":1126,"position":0},"title":"This Week in Tech 517: The Pharoah Has Spoken","author":"NCCT","date":"July 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Host: Jason Calacanis Reddit mods revolt, Apple Music and Beats 1 launches, Blackberry may come to Android, NSA's XKEYSCORE, and more. 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