BlackBerry OS 7 recently launched in Kenya amid wars to transform BlackBerry to be the most popular mobile phone operating system in the market.

In the event held last Friday at the Alliance Francaise, Waldi Wepener, Regional Director for the African Region at RIM, confirmed that he is really excited about the introduction of this Operating System and its devices in this part of the world, specifically an emerging market.

In an interview with Juuchini Media, Mr. Wepener said that he believes BlackBerry OS 7 will be hugely popular because it is a robust OS. Read more »

BlackBerry has not had a great time this past month. The device manufacturer faced quite the truck load of criticism and down-right discredit for their recent service outage that spanned across major regions of NorthAmerica, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Aside from that, today marks Day 2 of BlackBerry Developer Conference Americas. The event is being held in San Fransisco in the USA and has attracted developers interested in the BB OS platform that currently runs the BlackBerry smart phones as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook, a tablet produced by their device manufacturer RIM.

BlackBerry developers and enthusiasts will now get to interact with a new mobile platform announced today called the BBX which is a mixture of the BlackBerry OS and QNX, a commercial Unix-like realtime operating system primarily used in embedded systems.

QNX is said to assist in combining the best of both worlds to give a full-on experience for users on the BlackBerry service as well as the devices aligned with RIM. Read more »