Samsung Repeatedly Denies Licensing BlackBerry 10 OS

 Rumors are swirling again that Samsung will be licensing Research in Motion’s BlackBerry 10 OS. Thus far, the BlackBerry OS has been a proprietary operating system that, like Apple’s iOS, has been reserved for use on RIM’s hardware, providing tight software and hardware integration. However, as RIM has struggled to remain competitive in the smartphone space, executives for the Canadian smartphone-maker have not been shy in considering the possibility of licensing deals to extend RIM’s reach.

This time, speculations for Samsung licensing the next-generation BlackBerry 10 OS, which is slated to launch in 2013, is being propagated by Jefferies analyst Peter Musek, who had told investors of this speculation in the past.
TechRadar reported that Samsung has since responded and has released a brief statement denying that it is licensing or acquiring RIM: ”Samsung Electronics has not considered the acquisition of Research in Motion or licensing BB 10.”
Analysts are saying that it is usually standard procedure for companies to deny any speculations while they are in talks and that Samsung may still be in negotiation with RIM. A partnership with Samsung would help RIM broaden its appeal and its platform. Samsung is the leading Android smartphone manufacturer and would help RIM break into the consumer segment. For Samsung, a partnership with RIM would lessen Samsung’s dependence on Google, especially in an era following Google’s acquisition of rival smartphone manufacturer Motorola Mobility.
Samsung for its part is tied up with multiple platforms. In addition to Android, the company is working on its own Bada OS, will be releasing a smartphone with Tizen, and is a Windows Phone licensee. Samsung was also at one point rumored to be buying HP’s webOS.
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RIM Isn’t Ditching Physical Keyboards with BlackBerry 10

Earlier today, RIM posted a short video showing off its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. The video depicts a new virtual keyboard complete with predictive text and it left some wondering whether RIM would still be releasing phones with physical QWERTY keyboards. Without going into specifics, the company confirmed that it will not be abandoning devices with physical keyboards.

In a statement made to PhoneScoop, a spokesperson confirmed that the company will still be releasing phones with physical QWERTY keyboards, even though the focus on the BlackBerry 10 demo was on the operating system’s new virtual keyboard.

The same spokesperson said that while the first BlackBerry 10 device might have a virtual keyboard, future BlackBerry 10 devices will indeed have both virtual and physical keyboards on board.

This confirmation should sit well with those that love BlackBerry’s physical keyboards and it jives with the rumors that we’ve heard about RIM’s BlackBerry 10 launch.

RIM is expected to announce its first BlackBerry 10 device in August, a device that supposedly doesn’t have a physical keyboard, with a release planned for later in the year in October.

The company apparently won’t release a BlackBerry 10 smartphone with a physical keyboard until sometime in Q1 of 2013.

RIM’s current lineup of smartphones features a mix of phones that have both virtual and physical keyboards.

CEO Thorsten Heins also claimed, during his BlackBerry Jam keynote that the company may include some of the features found in the virtual keyboard on the physical keyboard.

BlackBerry 10 is RIM’s next operating system and it will replace BlackBerry 7, the current OS that the company has on the market.

RIM is counting on BlackBerry 10 to reverse its fortunes as the once proud BlackBerry has fallen behind the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft.

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BlackBerry Playbook OS 2.0 release confirmed for February 21st

There's been plenty of back and forth between the web and RIM lately regarding the debut date of the next OS release for the PlayBook, and now we've got some hard evidence showing that the software is set to be let loose on February 21st . As you can see in the picture above, PlayBook users will be able to download version 2.0 in the early hours of an unknown time zone next Tuesday. The much anticipated update will finally give the tablet a native email client, improved BlackBerry Bridge functionality and plenty of other goodies. Not only that, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will be rolling out that same day, giving IT professionals the ability to manage all BlackBerry devices from a single interface -- with Android and iOS controls coming in March. The picture to prove it is after the break, and now that we got that settled, we can go back to speculating about BlackBerry 10, right? [Thanks, Anonymous]

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RIM’s BlackBerry LondonSurfaces with New Design

While RIM’s 2012 roadmap that leaked out a few days ago gave us a potential timeline for the release of the company’s first BlackBerry 10 smartphone, it didn’t provide us with what we have been craving. An image. Well, today, CrackBerry has unearthed an image of what is apparently the BlackBerry London, a device that many believe will be one of the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones to hit the market.

The London first appeared in an image back in November. However, as you can see, RIM is apparently going to be going in a different direction with the London as the phone you see here takes some design aesthetics from the BlackBerry Playbook with those curved edges and all-black coloring.

We have included the original BlackBerry London concept here as well just so you can get a feel for the differences.

And no, this isn’t the first time that we’ve seen a company do this. Motorola showed off a Droid Bionic at CES 2011 that was vastly different from the Droid Bionic that was released in September of last year.

And that’s just one example.

The new London.

The report also claims that RIM has two other BlackBerry 10 phones in development, the Lisbon and the Laguna. Those are apparently going to be heading to the U.S. while the London, go figure, might just be a UK device.

Sadly, it’s going to be awhile before we find anything out for sure.

RIM isn’t expected to launch any of these phones until September or October.

So what do you guys think?

Interested in a BlackBerry 10 device that looks like this?

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Windows 8 Concept Watch Takes Smart Watches to a Whole New Level

We've seen 'shrewd watches' before with either a constrained cleaned form of a cell phone Os–like the Motorola Actv–and those with full Android OS capacities. Notwithstanding, the new idea watch made by Indian creator Mithn Darji takes the thought of savvy to an entire new level by pressing in the full desktop OS variant of Windows 8 and its Metro UI onto your wrist. The demi tablet that serves as a watch likewise has a measured, removable Bluetooth earpiece for you to accept calls. 

The configuration joins a full PC, Wifi for network, and a telephone radio onto a plastic wrist strap. There are fittings keys for telephone, fast propelling the program, music playback, and volume. The watch additionally has a charging connector that gleams when connected to, like Sony's VAIO smart phone charging plans. 

The Windows 8 watch is still an idea now, yet given Microsoft's prerogative to help ARM with Windows, the watch may be power sufficiently proficient to keep going a day on a charge. Interestingly enough, however, Darji selected to run with Windows 8 as the OS instead of Microsoft's portable Windows Telephone

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RIM BlackBerry PlayBook

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A tablet with a business brain and an appetite for multi-tasking

http://uk.blackberry.com/playbook-tablet

RIM is taking on Apple and the Android brigade with its own OS and the off-putting tagline of “The world’s first professional-grade tablet." RIM’s punting the Playbook to its traditional business market then, you might think, but twin HD cameras, access to 7 Digital’s excellent music store, superb video on the multi-touch, high-res, 1024x600 screen, a web browser with support for Flash 10.1 and “hard core gaming” are not the stuff of dry accountancy seminars. With a 1GHz dualcore processor and 1GB of RAM, N Wi-Fi and the promise of 4G access (where available, ie: not here) this thing should really fly…

BlackBerry PlayBook video

San Francisco, CA -- Research In Motion (RIM) redefined the possibilities for mobile computing with the unveiling of its new professional-grade BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet and BlackBerry® Tablet OS.

Perfect for either large organizations or an "army of one", the BlackBerry PlayBook is designed to give users what they want, including uncompromised web browsing, true multitasking and high performance multimedia, while also providing advanced security features, out-of-the-box enterprise support and a breakthrough development platform for IT departments and developers. The incredibly powerful and innovative BlackBerry PlayBook is truly a game-changing product in the growing tablet marketplace.

"RIM set out to engineer the best professional-grade tablet in the industry with cutting-edge hardware features and one of the world's most robust and flexible operating systems," said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. "The BlackBerry PlayBook solidly hits the mark with industry leading power, true multitasking, uncompromised web browsing and high performance multimedia."

The Tablet You'll Want to Take Everywhere

This beautifully designed and incredibly powerful tablet is ultra portable, ultra thin and super convenient for both work and play. Measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound, the BlackBerry PlayBook features a vivid 7" high resolution display that looks and feels great in your hand. With such a unique mix of utility, performance and portability, you'll want to take it everywhere.

The New Benchmark in Tablet Performance

At its heart, the BlackBerry PlayBook is a multitasking powerhouse. Its groundbreaking performance is jointly fueled by a 1 GHz dual-core processor and the new BlackBerry Tablet OS which supports true symmetric multiprocessing. Together, the abundant processing power and highly sophisticated OS enable the BlackBerry PlayBook to provide users with true multitasking and a highly-responsive and fluid touch screen experience for apps and content services.

Uncompromised Web Browsing

With support for Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1, Adobe® Mobile AIR® and HTML-5, the BlackBerry PlayBook provides customers with an uncompromised, high-fidelity web experience and offers them the ability to enjoy all of the sites, games and media on the web. For more than a decade, the mobile industry has worked to bridge the gap between the "real web" and mobile devices through various apps and technologies and, in fact, a significant number of mobile apps today still simply serve as a proxy for web content that already exists on the web. The BlackBerry PlayBook closes that gap and brings the real, full web experience to mobile users while also opening new and more exciting opportunities for developers and content publishers.

High Performance Multimedia

The BlackBerry PlayBook features premium multimedia features to support high-quality mobile experiences. It includes dual HD cameras for video capture and video conferencing that can both record HD video at the same time, and an HDMI-out port for presenting one's creations on external displays. The BlackBerry PlayBook also offers rich stereo sound and a media player that rivals the best in the industry.

BlackBerry Integration

For those BlackBerry PlayBook users who carry a BlackBerry smartphone(i), it will also be possible to pair their tablet and smartphone using a secure Bluetooth® connection. This means they can opt to use the larger tablet display to seamlessly and securely view any of the email, BBM™, calendar, tasks, documents and other content that resides on (or is accessible through) their smartphone. They can also use their tablet and smartphone interchangeably without worrying about syncing or duplicating data. This secure integration of BlackBerry tablets and smartphones is a particularly useful feature for those business users who want to leave their laptop behind.

Enterprise Ready

Thanks to the seamless and secure Bluetooth pairing experience and the highly secure underlying OS architecture, the BlackBerry PlayBook is enterprise ready and compatible (out-of-the-box) with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. When connected over Bluetooth, the smartphone content is viewable on the tablet, but the content actually remains stored on the BlackBerry smartphone and is only temporarily cached on the tablet (and subject to IT policy controls). With this approach to information security, IT departments can deploy the BlackBerry PlayBook to employees out-of-the-box without worrying about all the security and manageability issues that arise when corporate data is stored on yet another device.

QNX Neutrino Reliability

The BlackBerry Tablet OS is built upon the QNX® Neutrino® microkernel architecture, one of the most reliable, secure and robust operating system architectures in the world. Neutrino has been field hardened for years and is being used to support mission-critical applications in everything from planes, trains and automobiles to medical equipment and the largest core routers that run the Internet. The new BlackBerry Tablet OS leverages and builds upon the many proven strengths of this QNX Neutrino architecture to support a professional grade tablet experience and to redefine the possibilities for mobile computing.

An OS Built for Developers

The Neutrino based microkernel architecture in the BlackBerry Tablet OS delivers exceptional performance, high scalability, Common Criteria EAL 4+ security, and support for industry standard tools that are already familiar to hundreds of thousands of developers. The OS is fully POSIX compliant enabling easy portability of C-based code, supports Open GL for 2D and 3D graphics intensive applications like gaming, and will run applications built in Adobe Mobile AIR as well as the new BlackBerry® WebWorks™ app platform announced today (which will allow apps to be written to run on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets as well as BlackBerry smartphones with BlackBerry® 6). The BlackBerry Tablet OS will also support Java enabling developers to easily bring their existing BlackBerry 6 Java applications to the BlackBerry Tablet OS environment.

Key features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook include:

- 7" LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support

- BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing

- 1 GHz dual-core processor

- 1 GB RAM

- Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording

- Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV

- Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA

- HDMI video output

- Wi-Fi - 802.11 a/b/g/n

- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

- Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts

- Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java

- Ultra thin and portable:

- Measures 5.1"x7.6"x0.4" (130mm x 193mm x 10mm)

- Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g)

- Additional features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook will be shared on or before the date this product is launched in retail outlets.

- RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.

Availability

The BlackBerry PlayBook is expected to be available in retail outlets and other channels in the United States in early 2011 with rollouts in other international markets beginning in (calendar) Q2.

RIM will begin working with developers and select corporate customers next month to begin development and early testing efforts.

The BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK is planned for release in the coming weeks and developers can register for early access at www.blackberry.com/developers/tabletos.

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