RIM to debut BlackBerry 10 at Mobile World Congress

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According to a RIM representative speaking to Pocket-lint, the company intends to use the upcoming Mobile World Congress trade show in February to showcase its new BlackBerry 10 operating system for mobile devices. RIM announced BlackBerry 10 as BBX back in October before changing its name to BlackBerry 10 because of an impending lawsuit.

Unfortunately, when RIM announced the new OS, it did not show any samples of it or demonstrate how it would look or work. It seems that by February it will have enough of a completed product to show off, but it is not clear if we will see any new hardware running it at that time.

"Twenty-twelve will be the year of BlackBerry 10 so we'll be showcasing the capabilities of our future operating system as well demonstrating the power of BlackBerry 7, with a particular focus on NFC and BBM connected apps," the RIM representative is quoted as saying to Pocket-lint.

RIM is also expected to release version 2.0 of its BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet OS in February, but it is not known whether or not that will happen before Mobile World Congress, which is at the end of the month.