The Z10 is, of course, the first smartphone running the new BlackBerry 10 operating system.
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Over the past few months, RIM has launched new smartphones running its new BlackBerry 7 software.
Here's a running account of the BlackBerry 10 event, presented in reverse chronological order.
"We are excited about our plans to bring Skype to smartphones running the brand new BlackBerry 10 platform, " Bob Rosin, vice president of business development for Microsoft Corp.
There are a lot of people out there -- a couple of past and present Engadget editors included -- who would love a souped-up BlackBerry Torch running Android 2.3 with a BBM icon emblazoned on its high-resolution homescreen.
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While AOL offers its services and instant messaging to several mobile carriers and PDA platforms, it's only company-led foray into wireless Internet is through its Mobile Communicator product: a Research in Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) Blackberry, running on Cingular Wireless ' network, that has e-mail and instant messenger.
ShopSavvy says that someone there has been running their Android app on BlackBerry devices.
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One company watcher said it was important for Blackberry to have a device running BB10 on sale in parts of the world where its handsets were still bestsellers.
It's still a three-element UI, with a central home screen showing running applications, an app grid, and the BlackBerry hub -- a feed of time sensitive notifications from email, calendar, BBM, social apps and more.
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Blackberry has been overtaken in the smartphone market by sales of phones running Apple and Google Android operating systems.
The question is whether there's time for the once-pioneering BlackBerry to catch up to Apple's trend-setting iPhone and devices running Google's Android system.
The Blackberry 10 system is due to launch on 30 January, with the first devices running it available the following month.
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Apple Insider notes the current installed based of smartphones at DoD includes roughly 470, 000 BlackBerry devices, about 41, 000 iOS devices, and around 80, 000 devices running Android.
We're not sure why the Wall Street Journal just posted up a piece talking about BlackBerry OS 6.0 and the Bold 9800 QWERTY slider as though we haven't been running leaked pictures and videos of them for months now, but whatever -- the story also apparently confirms RIM's Foleo-like tablet plans and says the device could be out by the end of the year.
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