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That time again folks, the time when OS leaks start turning up before the actual devices. BlackBerry 7 is of course the next OS to be appearing on BlackBerry smartphones after it was announced that RIM would be bypassing BlackBerry 6.1 on future devices.
Now, as the devices are getting even closer to launch, the OS' for them have now started to turn up. That said, you have to keep in mind that these OS' mean very little to any regular folks out there, aside from hybrid builders who may choose to mix and match some of the BlackBerry 7 files into the current breed of Blackberry 6 OS devices and extract some apps like, BlackBerry App World which is sitting at v2.1.3.7 in these OS' leaks.
In other words, for those of you asking "Will this work on.." no, it won't. The files are pretty much useless to any regular folks out there and those that have the devices they could work on, already have access to OS install files anyway.
Download the leaked OS 7.0.0.100 for the BlackBerry Curve 9350 / 9370
Source: N4BB
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