The BlackBerry PlayBook is RIM's first QNX-based device after acquiring QNX. After that they have promised that they will soon be launching a smartphone running on the QNX OS in the near future. Anyway, BGR, have acquired information about RIM's first QNX-based smartphone. Codenamed, BlackBerry Colt, it is expected to really put RIM/BlackBerry back to where they were before, competing competitively in the market
The phone is also said to be already in its testing phase and is currently running on a single-core processor. Well, it is not yet final, as BlackBerry have already said that dual-core CPUs inside a BlackBerry smartphone should come when the QNX OS is already available for their phones. That means that the phones (BB Colt) that sports a single-core CPU might end up launching with a dual-core processor breathing from inside it.
"RIM has always touted the superior battery life of its mobile devices, and this has forced the vendor to be one of the last to adopt various technologies, from full-color screens to fast 1+ GHz processors. In a time where we’re close to seeing quad-core CPUs in mobile devices, RIM is launching single core devices with a promise of dual-core processors coming to its future QNX smartphones. The information we have received suggests that the first QNX device out of Research In Motion will be powered by a single-core processor, however, rather than a speedier multi-core chipset. It’s entirely possible that it could change ahead of the device’s release, our source said, but the internal testing going on right now is with a single-core chip." - BGR
RIM is expected to launch their first QNX smartphone in Q1 of 2012. It will all depend on when the testing of it all will finally be over and when RIM can finalize and polish things up before they can launch a phone running on that OS. For now, this is all that we have, we don't even have photos of that device, but a rumors from a trusted source is all we need to be excited.
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