We already know that RIM has big things planned for its future BlackBerry smartphones, after the recent acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe, who specialize in developing customer user interfaces for mobile platforms.
Now it seems RIM also intends to bring their BlackBerry PlayBook software to their future BalckBerry smartphones, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis made the following statement about the future BlackBerry smartphone and the PlayBook, at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference.
“By focusing on the tablet market, we see an opportunity to free where the smartphone can go,” said Lazaridis.
“When we have multi-core processors across the board, they’ll all be running the Playbook platform,” he added.
It isn’t clear whether RIM intends to replace their existing BlackBerry OS with the PlayBook OS on al future smartphones.
via The Inquirer
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