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BlackBerry handsets will be able to run Android apps
Topic Started: Aug 27 2011, 04:39 PM (154 Views)
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BlackBerry handsets will be able to run Android apps
Hope to make the RIM job trivially easy for devs
By Bill Ray •

RIM is planning to put its "app player" engine into the next generation of handsets, providing Android compatibility to its phones as well as tablets.

Bloomberg has been talking to people who asked not to be identified but confirmed that RIM's QNX-based handsets, scheduled for next year, will get the Android compatibility module allowing applications developed for Google's platform to be run on RIM's.
We've still not seen the "app player", but RIM confirmed in March that it would be shipping software for its PlayBook tablet which would enable the tablet to run Android applications. The PlayBook is based on QNX, which RIM bought in April last year, so once the handsets go QNX too, there seems little reason to prevent the "app player" from running. Even once it has Android compatibility don't expect RIM to embrace the Google Marketplace: Android will simply be another way in which developers can create applications for distribution through RIM's App World.


Full story here - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/26/blackberry_android/
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