There might be a light at the end of the tunnel for RIM, but the BlackBerry PlayBook won’t see so much as a shadow this year. The company just announced that the new BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0 won’t arrive until February 2012, much less the firm’s high-flying next-gen operating system, BBX. What’s more, this revision of the Tablet OS — currently in developer beta — still won’t have native BBM messaging on board, leaving the slate somewhat crippled without a paired BlackBerry smartphone connected via BlackBerry Bridge. It will finally bring integrated email, calendar and contact apps, though, a scant eight months after they were originally promised. You can digest the official (lengthy) statement at your leisure by following our source link.
BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0 delayed to February 2012, won’t include BBM
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