RIM Says BB7 Devices Won't Be Updated to BB10
May 2, 2012, 10:16 AM by Eric M. Zeman
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins today noted that the BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry 7 platforms will not be compatible. Devices running BlackBerry 7 will not be updated to BlackBerry 10, and apps written for either platform will not necessarily work on the other. This follows similar transitions experienced by Palm and Microsoft when they rebooted their platforms to WebOS and Windows Phone 7, respectively. RIM did say, however, that it is committed to supporting BlackBerry 7.1 for "a while" and that it is likely it will port some BB7 apps to BB10.
source: RIM
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Wasn't BB7 just recently released?
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BB7 won't go away overnight anyway. Since BB10 needs new phones to run on it, I would say there could be a tr...
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