November 10, 2010 at 10:50 am

RIM To Move Ahead With QNX OS7 For Storm3?

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Thanks to our trusty informant we received some news this morning that might make some of you happy.  While we trust our source, this is still a rumor as always until RIM themselves say’s otherwise.  Remember the whole Storm 9570 fiasco that occurred between the months of August and October?  Was it a Storm3?  Was it a Storm2 but upgraded for OS6?  Well, we learned some interesting info about what happened and why.  Hit the jump for all the details.

The Storm2 refresh was in fact real, so real, that the final hardware was said to be within weeks of going out to carriers.  Around the September time frame, it seems like RIM had some late night coffee meetings to discuss the reality of the Storm series and if it was in the company’s best interest to use resources in developing a model that was already well outdated thanks to the latest and greatest from Google’s Android and Apples iPhone platforms.

They were quick to realize they needed to scrap this project all together, and focus on a big re-branding of the series.  Now comes the juicy part.  OS7 when on the drawing board was still a stepping stone to a QNX based OS for handheld devices from RIM.  Think of the PlayBook as a non-handheld if you will.  Thanks to scraping the Storm2 refresh, it looks as though OS7 could in fact be the first QNX based OS for RIM’s next device in the Storm series, the Storm3.

What our informant told us is that the Storm3 will in fact lose the surepress feature, as early early hardware uses a capacitive screen.  The hardware “should” be on par with the offerings you see today, such as a minimum 1Ghz processor, 1GB of RAM, and at least 8GB of ROM space.  Again though these are probable specs, and can and possibly will change over the development process, it looks like RIM has finally realized it needs to step it up to compete in this market.  Last but not least, even though we trust our informant greatly thanks to some of the past information we have received always take anything with a grain of salt until it is officially announced, no matter where you hear it from.  Lets hope this all turns out to be true for RIM’s sake.

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  • http://twitter.com/mfg68 Matt Galo

    Interesting. Let’s see if they can rise from the ashes!

  • http://kellya.clavid.com/ Alex

    I will be sad to see the disappearance of SurePress. I hope it is only for the first OS7 Storm devices and that it doesn’t go away for good. But, it would seem to me that if it isn’t important enough for them to add, it will just die :(

  • Thunder

    any hint on timeframe?

    • http://gizmofusion.com Bryan

      Not just yet, but working on getting more info!

  • Revyrah

    “…the Storm3 will in fact lose the surepress feature, as early early hardware uses a capacitive screen. ”

    Hopefully that’s only in the early hardware and they include an on/off option for it instead of removing it entirely. I can’t stress enough how much I enjoy SurePress. In the minority or not, that’s the reason why I bought the series in the first place.

  • UpsetButHopeful

    Sure Press can Surely go away. It it not needed, and ends up hurting your fingers over time … and is exactly what most people don’t want. It’s frustrating that Blackberry didn’t get the hint after the Storm … and tried to shove it down our throats. If they went without the Sure Press, and waited on the Storm to get the software right before releasing, and made a fun app store for those who wanted it, Android would never have gotten traction. BB has the best and most intuitive software, but they keep missing the mark (wide).