Tablet OS
The"BlackBerry Tablet OS" from the Canadian smartphone manufacturerRIM is a mobile operating system for the PlayBook from the same manufacturer. The operating system (OS) and the tablet were first presented to the public in September 2010.
The BlackBerry Tablet OS uses the QNX Neutrino microkernel architecture, which was developed for business-critical applications in vehicles, medicine or Internet core routers. A kernel for multicore hardware enables true multitasking and operation with WebKit and Adobe Flash.
BB Tablet OS for mobile web applications
The BlackBerry Tablet OS allows developers to write mobile web applications using either HypertextMarkup Language (HTML5), Cascading Style Sheet( CSS), JavaScript and the WebKit rendering engine, or Adobe's Flash tools. The applications can be distributed via the BlackBerry AppWorld.
The operating system's compatibility with POSIX (Portable Operating System for Unix) makes Open GL applications such as graphics-intensive 3D games possible. The apps run on the BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphones with the BlackBerry 6(BB6) operating system version.
The Blackberry Tablet OS was developed as an operating system for RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, which is planned in WLAN according to 802.11 b/g/n, UMTS variants such as High Speed Downlink Packet Access( HSDPA) and Long Term Evolution( LTE). The architecture of the tablet OS was primarily developed for enterprise users and is compatible with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).
The touchscreen control
The company's first tablet features a 7- inch capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch and gesture support. With a 1 GHzdual-core processor, the device enables symmetric multiprocessing. The hardware has two HD cameras with 3 megapixels( MP) on the front and 5 MP in the rear, web browser, a gyro sensor to switch between horizontal and vertical display, touch operation, microphone and speakers. The BlackBerry PlayBook measures 130 x 193 x 10 mm and weighs about 400 grams.
The PlayBook can be paired with a smartphone via Bluetooth to transfer emails, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), calendars, tasks, documents and other content from the smartphone to the larger tablet screen, where it is merely buffered but not backed up. In this way, the tablet also serves as an external screen for the smartphone, whose data security is thus maintained.