First devices with BlackBerry 10 will be released in January 2013

The first smartphones with BlackBerry 10 will be released in January 2013. That has the director of BlackBerry maker RIM said. There will be two devices in January. One has a qwerty keyboard, the other only a touchscreen.

It is the first time that RIM has specified a concrete date for the release of devices with BlackBerry 10. BlackBerry 10 is the new platform that RIM will use for smartphones. Unlike BlackBerry OS 7, it is not based on Java, but on technology from QNX, a company purchased by RIM in 2010.

In January 2013, according to director Thorsten Heins of RIM, two aircraft will be released. Pictures of it recently came online. The director is not sorry that the devices will only come on the market after the lucrative fourth quarter. “That’s more of a prepaid quarter anyway,” he says in the interview with CIO.com.

RIM has already delayed BlackBerry 10 several times. Unofficially, the introduction was initially planned for the end of 2011, but that was quickly postponed to early 2012. Last year it became clear that the release of the new platform was postponed to the end of 2012. Developers can already get started with the new platform; there are tools available for them.