News coming from the RIM and QNX have shown of a new concept car at CES Bentley them, they run the QNX CAR application platform. It is a modified Bentley Continental GT and offer in-car infotainment, smartphone integration, HTML5 engine, gateway mobile devices and more. RIM and QNX working on some pretty exciting new technology.
According to RIM’s own stats, the QNX platform is used in 60 per cent of cars currently on the road,
and according to Jamie Moss, senior analyst at Informa Telecoms and
Media, the firm already has the expertise required to develop a strong
offering for the connected car market.
“Many people look at operating systems such as iOS think of it as
being far too closed so it will never move beyond Apple’s own products
and with Android the concern is that it’s far too open, and it’s a bit
too “fuzzy” to use in specific deployments – it is best as a general
purpose operating system for phones or tablets,” he explains.
“But RIM has the experience that is required to develop something for
such a specific type of industry and such a specific type of product.”
RIM’s role in the automobile space is not a well known one. Operating
on a white label basis, the in-car computers are not branded as RIM or
Blackberry, but QNX is what the head unit in the majority of cars run
on.
“Drivers don’t know they’re driving a RIM device – QNX would have
been commissioned by the individual car manufacturers for RIM to produce
a version of the operating system that conformed to their particular
requirements and allows the particular services that they wish to
offer,” explains Moss. “It usually ends up being branded by the actual
company vending to the consumer – so, typically the automobile OEM.
They’d be oblivious to the fact that it’s QNX, let alone that RIM now
owns QNX.”
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