BlackBerry playbook opens up to Android applications?

BlackBerry Playbook, Remember, is a 7-inch tablet the company plans to launch officially on the international market in the coming months. The manufacturer plans to make it compatible with Applications developed for the Google Android OS. This solution will allow the device to access a rich and diverse catalog of applications and games. We talk about 130,000 apps present on Android Market, Certainly a large number that will be particularly appreciated by users, especially considering that those developed specifically for the tablet are only a few dozen.


This news has not yet officially confirmed, although the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, Could be the right event to learn something more. In reality it is not even clear that RIM intends to achieve this solution. Some rumors had seen in the Dalvik Java Google the starting point to ensure compatibility between devices and software. But in the last few hours, this hypothesis is gradually losing strength in favor of a different solution of which, however, we have no news.

However, if these rumors were confirmed, the tablet Blackberry playbook, based on QNX platform, Growth (and not just) in terms of versatility. In fact, with one move, there would be a device known for the strength of 'messaging and communication system in a broad sense, that has always distinguished the models developed by RIM combined with a extremely large catalog of applications.