Leaked RIM software roadmap reveals BlackBerry OS 7.0

By George Wong on 03/08/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

The 2011 roadmap for RIM’s software has recently found its way online, and provides an insight to what RIM has in store for us this year. If this proves to be the real deal, it looks like BlackBerry users might find themselves with an OS upgrade by the end of the year. According to the roadmap, in September to November, RIM will be working on something called “BB 7 SN Core Integration (OS 7.0)”. This obviously refers to the next version of the BlackBerry OS (currently it is at version 6) but it is uncertain what they mean by “Integration”. It seems safe to assume that BlackBerry devices will be receiving the BB OS 7.0 upgrade at the end of the year. Other notable details from the roadmap are 2 upgrades to BIS, and updated Facebook, Twitter and Social Feeds.

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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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