Twitter Beware: Fake RIM CEO Accounts = Fake News (like fake leaked pics of QNX on a phone)

on 26 Sep 2011 12:56 PM

It was a quiet weekend for BlackBerry news, but that didn't stop the rumors from flying on Sunday when parody Twitter accounts @MikeLazaritis and @JimBalsilly decided to have a little fun. Two pictures were posted to the accounts, supposedly showing QNX running on a future model of the BlackBerry Torch 9850/60, and a lot of people were left scratching their heads, wondering if these are in fact what they claim to be.

Fact is, fake Twitter accounts lead to faked statements and even faked pictures (although sometimes they might pop out some "real" news). To show you how easy it is to make such images, I went ahead and threw together a few of my own using my Bold 9900 and some screenshots from my BlackBerry PlayBook. And don't let the picture of the BBM icon being moved on the Torch fool you; I recreated that as well, minus the finger. ;)

Check out the rest of pictures after the break.

Fake QNX on BlackBerry Bold 9900

Fake QNX Bold 9900

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: QNX

18 Comments

Posted by dasDestruktion Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

I'm not sure what people find so funny about parody accounts? To me that all is silly.

Posted by anthonybaker Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

even tho the photos of the 9900 running qnx was made by you michelle, it still looks like a slick set up, i would love that

Posted by 123berryaddicted Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

Looks good to me.

I'd love to have what looks to be QNX on my 9900

Looks pretty nice :)

Posted by AbuYazeedUK Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

LOL @BalSilly

Posted by fnord Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

Amazing job on the Photoshoping!
They look great!!

Posted by harveyjr Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

All we can do is pray to have QNX on 9850/60 and 9900/30

Posted by Dammerung2010 Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

The Bold 9900 screens are obviously fake. But the 9860 actually looks legitimate, with the reflections and such. If it's photoshopped then the fakers did an amazing job. Then again, couldn't it just be that the fakers took a screenshot from a playbook in portrait mode, and displayed that on the 9860 with the picture viewer?

Posted by C_86 Monday, Sep 26, 2011 243 days ago

very good!! you answered your own question... how do you think Michelle got the "QNX" on the 9900... was taking a screenshot of the playbook (pressing volume buttons) and displaying it on the 9900 instead... get it? thats what the parody accounts did as well........

Posted by Tester01100111 Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

Wether the screenshots are fake or not. QNX for the handhelds is on the horizon.

Posted by J_K_Resnick Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

Nice touch showing your own version +1

Posted by rayzian Monday, Sep 26, 2011 244 days ago

damn that looks amazing... where is the damn os7 theme builder!!!! i want a QNX theme so bad after seeing these

Posted by Donnee Monday, Sep 26, 2011 243 days ago

at least they got the names close for once, i love those chain bbm messages from "Jim Balsamic" :D

Posted by daniel200 Monday, Sep 26, 2011 243 days ago

Naa... they just take a screenshot of a playbook, with photoshop they resize them, and then they put it into both devices, thats all...

Posted by Blacklac Monday, Sep 26, 2011 243 days ago

you didnt fake it well enough on the 9900. Why would it need a "Blackberry Bridge" section on the phone? :D

Posted by kwkid Monday, Sep 26, 2011 243 days ago

Not sure why you are questioning this. I have the Blackberry Bridge icon on my Torch 9800 and it is running OS6. You must not have a Playbook bridged to your Blackberry or you would have seen that.

Posted by BB-Bmore Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 243 days ago

The thing is ....this is coming down the pipe soon and I cannot wait. I am holding out for Qnx.

Posted by samgbx Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 243 days ago

now this is what os6/7 should look like!!!

Posted by avelvethammer Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 243 days ago

hows that apple doing for you in the background???