When Basis International recently sued over the BBX trademark, Research in Motion couldn’t see what the fuss was about. An Albuquerque court could, granting Basis a temporary injunction against using it for RIM’s new OS. So what does RIM do in response? It pulls an end-around by quickly renaming the OS “BlackBerry 10″. Check out the full injunction here. [Electronista - Crackberry]
The Verge has a photo of what looks like a Porsche Design BlackBerry slapped with a large all-encompassing touchscreen. The device supposedly replaces the ‘Colt‘ as the first BBX-equipped smartphone to come out of Waterloo, Canada.
The long-awaited Android app player for BlackBerry has been demonstrated by a developer, giving PlayBook owners a future reason to stay loyal. It’s Android, in a little window, courtesy of RIM’s BBX 2.0 OS.
This is probably spitting into the wind, but I’ve got to wonder: Why can’t fans of opposing smartphone teams celebrate the remarkable successes everyone’s having?
RIM’s BlackBerry Dev Con is going on right now, but the big news so far is the unveiling of BlackBerry’s ballyhooed new QNX platform for smartphones and tablets, called BBX.
