You may not be knowing this, but your shiny new Blackberry Z10 smartphone can play Android apps. Yes, the Android apps emulation that originally started with the Blackberry Playbook based on the QNX Operating System is also featured on the new Blackberry 10 devices, such as the Blackberry Z10 itself. Naturally, if this feature is present on one BB 10 OS based device, we expect it to be available on others such as the Blackberry Q10 (QWERTY) too, but there is no word on support for that device. Maybe because both the phones are based on different chipsets, or it could be the weird square resolution.
Android Apps on Blackberry Z10
Starting off, the Blackberry Z10 can already run Android apps. Yeah, you read that right. The Blackberry Z10 can emulate Android apps, that are compatible upto Android 2.3 Gingerbread only. The user experience is not at all satisfactory, with the apps running slow or being laggy or simply unresponsive at times. The main reason is that the Gingerbread runtime is being used to execute the apps on the Blackberry 10 smartphone.
Well, all this could change when Blackberry (name changed from RIM) updates the runtime version to that of the much newer Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. With that, it is expected that the performance of Android Apps on the Blackberry Z10 will improve enough to make these apps usable.
If this works out well, the Blackberry Store will never really run out of apps. However, native apps will always provide a better, not to mention faster experience over ones running over a compatibility layer.
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Android Apps on Blackberry Z10
Starting off, the Blackberry Z10 can already run Android apps. Yeah, you read that right. The Blackberry Z10 can emulate Android apps, that are compatible upto Android 2.3 Gingerbread only. The user experience is not at all satisfactory, with the apps running slow or being laggy or simply unresponsive at times. The main reason is that the Gingerbread runtime is being used to execute the apps on the Blackberry 10 smartphone.
Well, all this could change when Blackberry (name changed from RIM) updates the runtime version to that of the much newer Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. With that, it is expected that the performance of Android Apps on the Blackberry Z10 will improve enough to make these apps usable.
If this works out well, the Blackberry Store will never really run out of apps. However, native apps will always provide a better, not to mention faster experience over ones running over a compatibility layer.
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