BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha hands-on; meet the elusive BlackBerry Colt

. RIM made an unprecedented move earlier this week when it gave away pre-production BlackBerry 10 hardware to developers, but it was a smart one. In order to develop for a brand new operating system and help grow develop support for a new platform, you need to be able to test on real hardware. Since this isn't the phone that RIM will launch in the fall, there's no issue letting the public see the hardware, right? Well, there's more to the story.
The BlackBerry 10 Alpha unit is a device RIM has been testing internally for quite some time.





Boy Genius Report, BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha hands-on; meet the elusive BlackBerry Colt