BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS
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Developer
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Written
in
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C++
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OS
family
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Working
state
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Current (Only updates)
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Source
model
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Closed source
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Initial
release
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Version 1.0 for Pager
BlackBerry 850; January 1999
Version 3.6 for
smartphone BlackBerry 5810 Wireless Handheld; March 2002
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Latest
release
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7.1.0.2930 (BlackBerry
9790/9900) / November 2013
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Marketing
target
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Smartphones
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Available
in
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Multi-Lingual
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Package
manager
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BlackBerry Desktop
Manager
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Platforms
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BlackBerry line of
smartphones
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Kernel
type
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Java virtual machine
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Default
user interface
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Graphical
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License
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Proprietary
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Official
website
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BlackBerry OS is a proprietary mobile operating system developed by BlackBerry Ltd for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices. The operating system provides multitasking and supports specialized input devices that have been adopted by BlackBerry Ltd. for use in its handhelds, particularly the trackwheel, trackball, and most recently, the trackpad and touchscreen.
The BlackBerry platform is perhaps best known for its native support for corporate email, through MIDP 1.0 and, more recently, a subset of MIDP 2.0, which allows complete wireless activation and synchronization with Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, or Novell GroupWise email, calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts, when used with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The operating system also supports WAP 1.2.
Updates to the operating system may be automatically available from wireless carriers that support the BlackBerry over the air software loading (OTASL) service.
Third-party developers can write software using the available BlackBerry API classes, although applications that make use of certain functionality must be digitally signed.
Research from June 2011 indicates that approximately 45% of mobile developers were using the platform at the time of publication.
BlackBerry OS was discontinued after the release of BlackBerry 10, but BlackBerry will continue support for the BlackBerry OS.
Release history
Obsolete
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Discontinued
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Current
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Beta
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Future
Release
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Table of versions: BlackBerry
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Version
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Release
date
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Features / Information about
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1.0
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January 1999
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The BlackBerry OS made its debut and it was released for the Pager BlackBerry 850.
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3.6
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March 2002
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Released on the BlackBerry
5810 smartphone.
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5.0
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August 4, 2009
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It was released on the BlackBerry
Bold 9000 8520 and
came to the other BlackBerry smartphones a short while after its
release.
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6.0
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Q3 2010
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In April
2010, RIM announced the BlackBerry OS 6.0 version, which was released in the
third quarter of 2010. This
version included a new WebKit-based
browser.
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7.0
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Summer 2011
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It was
officially released in August 2011, making its appearance on the BlackBerry
Bold (9900/9930), BlackBerry
Torch (9810/9850/9860),
and the BlackBerry
Curve (9350/9360/9370/9380).
Any smartphones running an earlier version of the BlackBerry OS could not be
updated to version 7.0.
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7.1
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2012
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It has now been superseded by the BlackBerry 10 operating system, but is still sold
by BlackBerry on
its smartphones. This was an update to version 7.0 and added several new
features compared to 7.0, including
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Version
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Release
date
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Features / Information about
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Availability
Discontinued
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Still sold
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Upcoming
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Version
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Supported devices: BlackBerry 8000 series
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4.5
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BlackBerry
devices in the 8100 and 8800 series, plus BlackBerry Curve 8300/8310/8320.
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4.6
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BlackBerry Pearl Flip.
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5.0
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BlackBerry Curve 8330/8350i/8520/8530/8900.
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Version
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Supported devices: BlackBerry 9000 series
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5.0
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BlackBerry Bold 9000, BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Storm 2 and BlackBerry Tour.
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6.0
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BlackBerry
Bold 9650/9700/9780, BlackBerry Curve 9300/9330, BlackBerry Pearl 9100/9105,
BlackBerry Style 9670, and BlackBerry Torch 9800.
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7.0
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BlackBerry
Bold 9790/9900/9930, BlackBerry Curve
9310/9315/9350/9360/9370/9380/9220/9320, and BlackBerry Torch
9810/9850/9860.
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7.1
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BlackBerry Fonts
The following is a list of fonts that were included in some versions of BlackBerry (note: some of them were not included in older versions):
- Andale Mono
- Arial
- BBAlpha Sans
- BBAlpha Sans Condensed
- BBAlpha Serif
- BBCAPITALS
- BBCCasual
- BBClarity
- BBCondensed
- BBGlobal Sans
- BBGlobal Serif
- BBMilbank
- BBMilbank Tall
- BBSansSerif
- BBSansSerifSquare
- BBSerifFixed
- Comic Sans MS
- Courier New
- Georgia
- Impact
- Tahoma
- Times New Roman
- Trebuchet MS
- Verdana
BBAlphaSans and BBAlphaSerif are based on the free software DejaVu fonts.
BlackBerry Tablet OS
On September 27, 2010, BlackBerry Ltd. announced a new unrelated QNX-based platform, BlackBerry Tablet OS, to run on its recently released BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer.
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