Key facts
- Developer
- BlackBerry Limited
- Os family
- Mobile operating systems
- Working state
- Discontinued (replaced by BlackBerry 10 ; and Android )
- Source model
- Closed source
- Initial release
- January 19, 1999 ; 27 years ago ( 1999-01-19 ) (as Version 1.0 for BlackBerry 850 pager) , March 4, 2002 ; 24 years ago ( 2002-03-04 ) (as Version 3.6 for BlackBerry 5810 smartphone)
- Final release
- 7.1.0.2931 (BlackBerry 9790/9900) / November 2013 ; 12 years ago ( 2013-11 )
- Marketing target
- Smartphone
- Available in
- Multilingual
- Package manager
- BlackBerry Desktop Manager
- Supported platforms
- BlackBerry line of smartphones
- Kernel type
- Proprietary
- Default user interface
- Java virtual machine
- License
- Proprietary
- Succeeded by
- BlackBerry 10
- Official website
- http://us.blackberry.com/software/smartphones.html ( Archive )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
BlackBerry OS is a discontinued proprietary mobile operating system developed by Canadian company Research In Motion (now BlackBerry Limited) for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices. The operating system provides multitasking and supports specialized input devices adopted by BlackBerry for use in its handhelds, particularly the QWERTY keyboard , trackwheel, trackball, and in later years, the trackpad and touchscreen.
Research from June 2011 indicated that approximately 45% of mobile developers were using the platform. BlackBerry OS was discontinued after the release of BlackBerry 10 in January 2013, and support for it ceased on January 4, 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BlackBerry OS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.