Maybe this is why os2 is taking so long...

bbOS 10.1 and bbOS 10.2.....

This really looks like something from TAT. Their concept videos are amazing... And I don't think this concept is a bit far off - could be a reality in 10 years or less. Just look at the progress in the last decade!

This is probably all concept stuff, but the UI on those fake phones look pretty good :).

O.K. I still love my Bold 9930 but my wife would absolutely go for that device. I this is the kind of mind blowing TAT stuff that we would love to see. Not just BlackBerry lovers but all humanity.
I did notice the NFC access. Looking good.

That looks awesome. Some of this isn't far off either, Apparently the iphone 5 will have a keyboard that is wireless and lasered onto a desk that you can use. If blackberry can reivent itself and keep the security people happy, it can move its way back to 2nd place. Iphone is a trend and all trends end eventually.

Given that they can't even get e-mail and BBM working on the QNX platform, I really doubt they have the talent to pull any of the stuff shown off in this video in the next 10 years. My optimism for anything RIM is at an all time low.

Seamless experience. +1

Cmon RIM... EXECUTE!

All I can say is...oh my god; if they even came close to that level of UI design, Apple would be in trouble.

That would be a sweet looking handset to see in Q1 2012.

I think I might cry... I want to jump in that video and live in that world. And Apple, if you watched it, please don't steal it and call it "innovative"

Thanks,

So is that the QNX 4.1 screen phone we are waiting for? Cuz if so... I'm now very very excited

looks cool, vision is great but not interested in concept solutions we will never see or will not see for many years. I can make some great concept videos also, let's start executing on near term projects please. There is a lot of TAT stuff floating around from last year, all we have is a picture book app to show for it. release soemthign already. FEB can't come fast enough.

Ok so my patience has officially expanded. If my playbook is going to be even close to that, even a fraction, feb is looking good.

Fantastic video. I like the concepts. Now, can someone give me Vicki's phone number? ; )

Jim B. - This is the definition of leapfrogging the competition. Until you show a real product with some of that stuff, don't say anything else.

if the BBX phone/pb looks a little bit.. just a little bit like that square device shown on the video I will wait till the end of time for those.

Niiiiice.....

I especially like the touch desktop.......bringing mobile-like apps to the "PC".

There also was a white interactive "mat" for expanding the screen size and I suspect it will also play videos ??

Very cool.

RIM spends too much time focusing on stuff that might happen in the future and not enough time to getting its products completed and out the door.

This is fantasy.

Call me crazy, but that interface looks an awful lot like a Windows Phone....

If RIM wants to stick around for a few more years, BBX execution is CRITICAL!!!

The only way they will accomplish wowing customers back, is through the great BBX OS (if it's anything like QNX OS 2.0 they are in the right direction), but the devices that were shown is a MUST.

1) Thin
2) Lightweight
3) Screen - no bezel
4) POWER!

Wow customers back to Blackberry, and set a standard in the mobile industry

Simply put, failure to do so, will make it 'another Blackberry'.

Looks like ima get a 4s ...they smashing BB...even though I dnt want touchsceen !!!!!!

WOW!! Awesome....but what a tease!! Please RIM get to work!!

If I ever have to use a touchscreen instead of a mouse all day, I'll quit.

Sadly Rim is very far off from creating anything even near that innovative. If anything we will look to see google or maybe another company provide the next gen functionality because as with Rims track record they make promises and then fail to complete them. Its either that or make Kevin the new ceo of rim. That looks to be BBX maybe 10-15 somewhere there about. And its funny because they actually have phones like this in japan.

I love my 9700 & my Playbook but seriously? Maybe in like 20 years we'll see RIM doing stuff like this. I mean I'd LOVE to see them be able to put stuff like this out there but C'MON MAN! That whole video is as believable as the company IT guy okaying the on-line shopping app, just because "it was really useful at my old job," useful for what, wasting time?

This concept commercial looks eerily familiar to the Corning - A Day Made of Glass commercial from earlier this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38

This is not a "far off" concept. I can see this happening in a year from now. QNX can do all this out of the box.
"QNX integrates the entire network into a single, homogeneous set of resources.
Any process on any machine in the network can directly make use of any resource on any other machine. From the application's perspective, there is no difference between a local or remote resource "-- from QNX website.

This will be released in the year 280546655 so close!!!! Can't wait!!

Wow! Part of the future of RIM. I hope so!

That is awesome! Keeping this torch until that comes out.

iPhone 5..??!!?

looks interesting to say the least...although i would still want a full physical qwerty on my future phone...

Oh how I wish this would be available for purchase (phone and management software) in the next four months.

Far off ?? stylish perhaps, but nothing in there that can't be done today.
Touch screens, expensive but readily available; User/backend integration, nice way to to "style" it but nothing but a small script to adduser, and preset auth levels; Touchscreen tables, there are restaurants out there with it, interactive games and food/drinks ordering on it, any UI can be put onthere; the phone on the table? BT interface desktop touchscreen activated when placed in position, cost but nothing more. ID with phone? how do you activate bbm grps and bridge ?

all there already, just because it is sleekly styled doesn't mean it is new.

Oh and the phone whipe/lock call the cops? BES does most of that already, except call the cops :P
(but I'm sure I can teach it that trick too)

But i agree, bring me that phone UI!

Liquid free office!

"Sorry, you can't sit on this table right now. I'm installing updates on it."

C'mon we all know Rim will never make any phones as awesome as the ones depicted. They should have made a video set in 1998, then I would have believed the outdated stuff they would've shown.

i ENJOYED the video soo much that when i was brought back to reality i was sad :( me wants a bb like that!!

^AI^

The thing is that most of the stuff from the phone and backend system is already available. Blackberry Balance isn't far off from bringing your own device and having a sperate work partitiion, Remote Whip is already there, video chat will be there, if you had BBM online you could do the unified communications (or if the admin had a Playbook app), and the UI itself is achievable if you're bold enough to build it.

RIMM just need to take the right steps to making the interface unique and bold enough to grow into the other features. PB OS 2.0 is not the daring jump they need to change the landscape. The stuff in that video is simple enough to use, but modern enough to put everything else to shame.

This video looks very simalar to the video titled "Productivity Future (2011)" from Microsoft. Maybe this could be a glampse of what's to come with RIM and Microsoft working together. Here is the youtube link to see the video I found via Geekwire: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0

Looks awesome. RIM's a long way from getting all that done though.

where can i get one of those bezeless phones!

The first QNX phone will be X1 and the evolution of that will be X2. All the technology shown is now possible, but to integrate this takes time, and unfortunately product delivery and execution have been poor. Consumers do buy smartphones on design, though with many phones going to a slab screen the real design will be the interface. This is the modern UI in this video, and perhaps the first QNX phone will contain some of that. It's a long time until next summer.

Wow...that was awesome.

Pretty cool concept video. But like all concepts, they're always exaggerated and beautified. I'm sure something like this is RIM's goal, but it will probably never look like what is shown in this video. Much like how concept cars are build to get an idea of lines and body nuances that consumers would fine appealing. But the over-the-top styling never makes it into production.

ok, now they just need to invent the practical plutonium battery for BB (or any other smartphone) to get this stuff real ;)

which concept video you think is better iphone or BB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsBwnv_dAg

WOW .... and when you think about it ....... there's nothing in that video that isn't far fetched ....... just seems like a natural progression to me.

Well, there might be one aspect that's far fetched - the IT guy's continued presence at his desk and his amenability, lol!!!!

So this is what TAT has been working on?! Sure it's nice to see but I didn't think RIM bought them so they could make more future videos. They already have those on their website.

P.s. I know TAT has also been working on other things but the mess RIM is in they should have all hands on deck. Everyone that can type code should be doing it.

Just about everything you saw in that video is something RIM has talked about during devcon.

The lady asking for permission to use an app and the CIO allowing it? They were talking about that at devcon.

The lady getting a corporate partition on her device? Talked about that at devcon.

Using the phone to access the building and meeting rooms? That NFC for you! and your 9900 already has that ability.

Remotely wiping the device? Already can do that!

Finding her cubicle? Go download wikitude and see how its any different!

Looks like this video by RIM is a summing up of what they are trying to accomplish for corporate customers.

Is this the Colt? Why do i have a feeling the iphone 5 concept just leapfrogged this??

I would love to believe that RIM was capable of being this slick and actually getting it all together in a real product in the next year, but the reality is that it will take them about 5 years to make some sort of semblance of this into reality, and by that time, everybody else will already have it launched, and looking even better. I would still want a full physical qwerty anyway, but that's not the point. I think RIM should Boldly go (pun intended) where they never have before and completely revamp their UI for BBX. I know people are used to the way it is now and there is some functionality i love about OS6/7 but really, they are loosing this war, and it's time to push out something shiny and new (not just big improvements under the hood).

Come on RIM, you bought TAT about a year ago! Use them and make them work 110% for you, now before it's too late!

P.S. Still love my BB9700. Not going anywhere yet.

wooooowww . .
Pretty cool features

WOW!! That is really cool but it bothers me that it was the woman's first day at work and no one was there to greet her and to walk her to her new desk; the computer told her. I liked that she was able to type on the keyboard that was on the table though.

Holy Crap! I watch every vid RIM puts out. But boy was I in for a shock in this one. The clerk at 55 seconds...haha I met her just last week. :-D

Sweet. Everyone agrees. lots of people saying things like don't think so if they cant even get email, pim or bbm on the current form factor. Email, pim and bbm are the tricky things at the start, sorry if not fast enough for some of you. Once the above are integrated the rest gets faster. All this stuff could be out sooner that lots of people think. I believe some on BBX 1.0 with more to come there after. This OS is going to take on a life of its own!

looks like a 2009 video from microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/showcase/details.aspx?uuid=e7728af1-3fe4-...

future is laggin big time

if RIM ever comes up with this stuff, I'll go for the Pope nomination

Have to agree with many of the comments above. RIM seems to move like a snail in terms of actual production. Takes twice as long to release half the technology innovation. Continual delays in their release dates and usually the first iteration is half baked (Playbook, Storm, even the flagship 9900 are all riddled with issues). It's all about marketing, execution and accountability!

We all stay as optimistic as we can, but the patience of the consumers is running thin when there are so many other options available.

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