T-Mobile Rumored to be Testing BlackBerry 6 OS for Bold 9700

By Chuong Nguyen on 09/20/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

T-Mobile is rumored to be testing the BlackBerry 6 operating system for the BlackBerry Bold 9700. The BlackBerry 6 OS debuted on the AT&T BlackBerry Torch and has been seen since in leaks for the BlackBerry Bold 9650, the 9700′s cousin on CDMA networks. T-Mobile had previously committed to an upgrade path for the 9700 to BlackBerry 6 and GizmoFusion‘s tip gives us hope that the upgrade will come soon, though this is still speculation at this point.

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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