Imperative
It was something that BlackBerry had to achieve, and they've done it. Not that surprising, this is the sort of endorsement they designed BB10 for.
Let's see what the market twisting analysts with vested interests make of that.
BlackBerry 10 passes US defence department tests
BlackBerry has secured access to a critical market – the US military – for its new operating system and handsets and version 10 of its Enterprise Service software. Sighs of relief at the news may well be rattling the windows at BlackBerry's headquarters, because the company has staked its future on secure messaging. Winning …
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Monday 6th May 2013 19:48 GMT TheVogon
Re: Imperative
Blackberry had already had previous handsets certified so it is faster to get a new version certified than starting from scratch like Microsoft.
The reality is that from having a near monopoly, Blackberry now have to share this space with both Android and Windows Phone....This announcement is just bubbles from the sinking ship....
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Friday 3rd May 2013 07:24 GMT bazza
interesting list
The UC APL list is quite interesting. There's 4 Androids, only one of which is Android 4. There's a couple of Apples, but only iOS 5. BlackBerry's entries are BB6 and BB7, and any device that runs it. And now BlackBerry have BB10 on there too (or will do as soon as anyone updates the website).
So of all the vendors only BlackBerry have their latest products and software approved. Not a bad position to be in.
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Friday 3rd May 2013 17:06 GMT bazza
Probably not. It's all BlackBerry hardware, and the OS (BB10) has already been approved. Any additional examination is likely to be quite minor and incremental.
Apple, MS and BlackBerry are in a reasonably good place for maintaining an active listing on this list. MS has a hardware spec that goes along with WP8, so as long as the handset manufacturers stay within that (ie don't add a port labelled Debug Here And Slurp All The Data, or something) then it should be relatively easy to keep WP8 approved (assuming . Apple and BlackBerry control their hardware anyway and so are in a good place.
However Android is in a bad place; each handset manufacturer is effectively its own OS provider, Google don't provide them with pre built binaries. Samsung might get Android version X.Y.Z certified on their hardware, but that probably won't read across to a HTC handset running the 'same' version.
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