RIM BBX Phones will have screen resolution same as PlayBook

RIM’s Alec Saunders divulged some important info about the upcoming BBX platform, which is a crossover platform to bridge the existing BlackBerry features with QNX OS. Saunders says BBX phones will break away from the looks of its high-end Bold phones but will retain all BlackBerry’s core features.

Apart from the looks, the most important thing revealed by Saunders is the display, which will boast a resolution of 1024×600 pixels with 16:9 aspect ratio, similar to that of BlackBerry PlayBook. From a PlayBook developers’ standpoint, this is good news because the apps developed for PlayBook will be compatible with BBX.

The first BBX smartphone is rumored to be BlackBerry Colt expected in the first quarter of next year.

[Via PC Mag]

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