Today during BlackBerry’s Earnings call, CEO Thorsten Heins announced that they would be releasing a new BlackBerry 7 device. Due to the demand of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 design and popularity within the enterprise market that they would be releasing a new device. The BBOS team have learn that the new BlackBerry device will be codenamed Somao. Yes, much like the girlscout cookies we have grown to love. The new Bold design BlackBerry 7 device will also debut OS BlackBerry 7.2
The Samoa will also debut with OS 7.2. A notch higher than the current highest legacy OS, which sits at 7.1. While 7.2 should bring improved performance and stability to the OS, we’re not expecting it to look much different than the current OS 7.1. It definitely won’t resemble BlackBerry 10 with the Hub, Peek, and Flow, so don’t get your hopes up for it. Since it will be java based, this device will not have access to the same apps that have made their way to BlackBerry 10 in the last few months. It will, however, have access to the apps that were on BBOS, and haven’t been officially ported over to BB10 (UberSocial, Pandora, SocialScope; etc).
This news may detail why BlackBerry has consistently updated legacy application within the beta zone?
How do you feel about a new but old BlackBerry 7 device?
