Waaaaay back in April of 2007, RIM announced that they’d be bringing a virtualized version of the BlackBerry OS to Windows Mobile handsets. In other words, it was pretty much the BlackBerry OS running as a Windows Mobile application, complete with support for BlackBerry services and applications. It would be made available “later this year” (again, this was 2007), said RIM. Alas, a year and a half later, it’s nowhere to be found.
Right when we were starting to think the project had been abandoned, BerryReview came through with a series of shots of the mythical OS-within-an-OS running on a HTC Touch Pro. While we can’t determine exactly which version of the OS we’re seeing, it looks to be at least on par with the base version of 4.2.
Check after the jump for a few more shots
Please note that I bought a Curve with OS 4.2 pre installed in July 2007, so the 4.2 certainly is older than that, not “March of this year”. Still a great vintage though. ;-)
Wow! i’d like to see also some video running BlackBerry OS on top of WM, which must be a metric for its performance.
Is there anybody on this?
death to winmo!