What Is BB10?

BB10 Is Operating System

BlackBerry 10 is a proprietary mobile operating system for the BlackBerry line of smartphones, both developed by BlackBerry Limited. BlackBerry 10 is based on QNX, a Unix-like operating system that was originally developed by QNX Software Systems until the company was acquired by BlackBerry in April 2010

Basic Details

Developer BlackBerry Ltd.

Written in C, C++, Qt

OS family Unix-like, QNX

Working state Current

Source model Closed source

Initial release January 30, 2013; 5 years ago[1]

Latest release 10.3.3.3216 / April 4, 2018; 6 months ago[2]

Latest preview 10.3.3.3216 / April 4, 2018; 6 months ago[3]

Available in Multilingual

Update method Firmware over-the-air, BlackBerry Link (carrier dependent)

Platforms ARM

Kernel type Real-time microkernel

Default user interface Graphical

License Proprietary

Preceded by BlackBerry OS

History of BB10

The operating system was originally called BBX, but this was changed when BlackBerry was blocked from using the BBX trademark after legal action from BASIS International, who already used it for their software.[10]

On November 12, 2012, CEO Thorsten Heins announced a January 30, 2013, launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system version 10.0 and the first smartphones running it.[11] The operating system, as well as two devices, the Z10 (a full touchscreen device), and the Q10 (a device equipped with a physical keyboard), were announced simultaneously around the world on January 30, 2013.[12] The company also announced that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would receive an update to BlackBerry 10 later in 2013.[13] Subsequently, BlackBerry stated when releasing their Q1 2014 financial results that the BlackBerry PlayBook would not be receiving an update to BlackBerry 10, citing that the hardware would not provide a good experience of BlackBerry 10 and are focusing on future devices. BlackBerry has continued to support and develop the PlayBook with its separate Tablet OS.

On 14 May 2013 BlackBerry OS 10.1 was launched. This brought improvements to many features requested by users.

On 13 September 2013, in Asia, BlackBerry announced the launch of BlackBerry OS 10.2 and a new BlackBerry 10 device, the Z30, providing performance increases over the previous BlackBerry 10 devices.

On June 18, 2014, BlackBerry announced an official relationship with Amazon.com, which resulted in the 10.3 update bundling the Amazon Appstore.

On 15 December 2017, BlackBerry CEO John S. Chen announced that there will be at least two years of support for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS devices. The operating system is expected to be end of life at the end of 2019,[8] with many built-in software have its support ended (such as Facebook, Dropbox, Evernote, LinkedIn, etc.).[14][15][16]

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