BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry 10 (BB10) is a deprecated proprietary mobile operating system for the BlackBerry line of smartphones, developed by BlackBerry Limited (formerly known as Research In Motion). Released in January 2013, BlackBerry 10 is a complete rework from the company's previous BlackBerry OS software. It is based on QNX, a Unix-like operating system that was originally developed by QNX Software Systems until the company was acquired by Research In Motion in 2010. BlackBerry 10 supports the application framework Qt (version 4.8) and in some later models features an Android runtime to run Android applications. Prior to version 10.3.1, BlackBerry 10 also supported the Adobe AIR runtime. The user interface uses a combination of gestures and touch-based interactions for navigation and control, making it possible to control a device without having to press any physical buttons, with the exception of the power button that switches the device on or off. It also supports hardware keyboards, including ones that support touch input. BlackBerry began to deprecate BlackBerry 10 in 2015, announcing a pivot towards Android devices with the BlackBerry Priv, and gradually discontinuing BB10 devices and software. The OS was officially declared end-of-life on January 4, 2022.