[Mellfee]

Forgive me if this is (and it probably is) a stupid post.... I don't get out much.

Is BB10 the new/next operating system...? If so, what happened to 8 and 9..?



....also, if someone can answer a side question, do you know what operating system the curve 8520 can run?


Thanks fellow crack-berries

[anon(2757538)]

Been proposed that Tablet OS1 and OS2 are OS8/9.

Nothing official, but that is a reason for some.

The 8520 can run OS5

[Seijuro]

that's actually pretty simple
8 and 9 are RIM's secret weapons

8) completely destroying/annihilating Microsoft for buying/taking over Rare Ltd. back in 2002 which then lost all of it's talent/greatness and had to suffer under the ******** people @ Microsoft

9) finding and reuniting all the old members of Rare Ltd., bringing them back to Nintendo so they can develop another Banjo-Kazooie game for the Wii U

yup

[leafs123]

Originally it was called BBX (BB + QNX) but there was a trademark infringement using the BBX name. X is the roman numeral for #10, thus BB10. There was never an explanation why the jump from 7 to 10, but like TW93 said, 8 could be PB OS 1.0 and 9 is PB OS 2.0. As well, BBOS 8-9 could exist for legacy devices.

[Bairdo]

I'm pretty sure that when they originally named the next-gen OS BBX making a logical nexus between BB OS and QNX, and lost the name dispute - they changed the X to 10 so there was still that logical connection. Could be wrong, but think that's what it is now BB10 after initially being called BBX.

[Bairdo]

Bah, damn Leafs. The Leafs never beat anyone. Guess there's a first time for everything. Lol.

[InfinityBob]

I wondered if BB8 and BB9 are being saved for future upgrades of the current generation (Bold 9900, 9790 etc). But probably not.

[malwayne66]

Well from MY understanding, and this may be wrong,

BB10 is what would have been or is the 7th BB OS. After taking QNX and integrating the OS to create PlayBook OS, the mobile Phone was to now have a new QNX OS which was initially called BBX.

(Now this is where my input comes in)

BBX was no longer used due to copyright or some legal issues.
keeping in line and jumping quickly (surprisingly) RIM used the "X" in the original and changed it to "10".

And that's how i interpreted the jump from BB7 to BB10

[anon(3940229)]

There could be few reasons. One was listed above (X=10), but one I think is correct is caused by phones. Up until this day we had a series 9800, 8750, and so on, however we reached 9900 and if they added a new one they wold get 10 000 which just is too big so they crossed out the 3 0 and got 10 ( one could seem to inmature for 15 years of experience). And one more reason is because it sounds better and more revolutionary than blackberry 9 or 8, so it basically shows that it's new begging.

[Mellfee]

Nice answers, thanks guys. I've been loving my Bold 9790 so it feels like OS 10 is almost arriving too quickly but if it puts RIM back near the top of the smartphone pile then the sooner the better. RIM, original gangsta'....lol

[Mellfee]

The 8520 can run OS5

My brother has an 8520 which I'm sure is running 4 so I'll get him to try an upgrade. Thanks.

[S180]

I believe RIM has clarified this before.

The reason is because they don't want it to sound like an incremental update to OS 7. Obviously BB10 is a completely new OS. If they name it OS 8, one is led to believe it's just an update to the previous OS - much like Windows 8 over Windows 7.

Now why did they choose BB10 instead of coming with a completely new term - I don't know.

[diegonei]

I too like to think 8 and 9 are actually the Tablet OS releases.

But there was a rumor floating around some time ago about a line of devices that would still run on the Java OS, alongside the BB10 devices running on QNX. I really hope that's not the case, it would,delete just create confusion about the brand/OS/features.

[southlander]

I believe RIM has clarified this before.

The reason is because they don't want it to sound like an incremental update to OS 7. Obviously BB10 is a completely new OS. If they name it OS 8, one is led to believe it's just an update to the previous OS - much like Windows 8 over Windows 7.

Now why did they choose BB10 instead of coming with a completely new term - I don't know.

Yep. There is no law that says software versions have to be numbered sequentially. If a company has a good reason they can use whatever they want.

I remembered years ago a point of sale software company we use as a vendor had a pair of products that worked together though one of the products was more mature (existed earlier) than the other. The mature product, say "X", was like version 4.2 and the other ("Y") was 1.8 or something as I recall. The next release of both products was version 5. "5" was chosen because the company sought to end confusion about which version of product x worked with which version of product y. Up until that point you had to have a chart to figure it out. But naming them both version 5 made it clear. So on product Y they went from 1.8 to 5. 2, 3, and 4 never existed.

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[mithrazor]

It got lost in the time space continuum.

[GreenLeaf182]

that's actually pretty simple
8 and 9 are RIM's secret weapons

8) completely destroying/annihilating Microsoft for buying/taking over Rare Ltd. back in 2002 which then lost all of it's talent/greatness and had to suffer under the ******** people @ Microsoft

9) finding and reuniting all the old members of Rare Ltd., bringing them back to Nintendo so they can develop another Banjo-Kazooie game for the Wii U

yup

^This. I also want a new perfect dark too, that can be 9.1.

[pythons]

Given that the change of functionality between BB 5,6 & 7 was so small it makes sense they would jump to 10...
...How would the public view RIM moving from BB7 to BB8 when BB7 is light years behind the iphone 4.
...If anything RIM should have called the new os BB20.

[BlackBerry Guy]

For the time it's taken to get it launched, there might has well been an 8 and 9

I'm guessing it was just easy to go from BBX to BB10 because of the Roman numeral thing.

[howarmat]

the crackberry monster ate them

[Xopher]

I'm surprised they didn't call it BB-Q. They could have made a lot of puns from that.

[Roo Zilla]

Why is 10 afraid of 7? Because 7.....8......9....

[kraski]

the crackberry monster ate them

I knew there was something we had to watch out about your appetite.

[kraski]

I'm surprised they didn't call it BB-Q. They could have made a lot of puns from that.

So could the competition.