South Africa: BBX, Blackberry's Latest Purported Saviour

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Research in Motion has recently announced a new direction for its smartphones and tablet devices that will place it closer to its rivals in terms of integration between the two. Much like the way Apple and Google operating systems work, the BlackBerry smartphones and tablets of the future will share a single OS. SIPHO HLONGWANE spoke to the managing director for Benelux, Central Europe and Africa at RIM as well as the director for product management in Africa about the new developments.

At the BlackBerry 2011 Developers Conference (or DevCon), RIM co-CEO and founder Mike Lazaradis unveiled BBX, a new operating system that will run on BlackBerry smartphones and the BlackBerry Playbook as soon as next year.

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