BlackBerry World may be over, but the wait is just beginning for the new BlackBerry 10 OS and the new Tru Voice Over IP Application. Many questions regarding the future of the app have been answered, some have not. What can we expect from Tru App on BB10 that differs from its predecessors? We had an opportunity to speak with Adam Linford of Tru Labs to find out.

Tru’s initial excitement over BB10 stems from the key customers on the Tru SIM side of the company: a number of the more than 70 million BlackBerry customers worldwide, people that travel, and people that work in internationally-distributed organizations.

“When Tru Labs was formed last year,” Mr. Linford told TruTower, “one of the first objectives was to make sure our Apps and SIM businesses were aligned. Our GSM services are all built with BlackBerry devices as key handsets to support. We’ve always had problems offering a full set of VoIP services on BlackBerry OS. Until BB10 came along.”

Mr. Linford also pointed out the ease of development for the BlackBerry 10 platform.

Tru expects to make the new app the flagship of their BlackBerry mobile applications. Though the new app will not be backwards compatible with older versions of BlackBerry OS, the current version of Tru App (version 1.3.0) will continue to be supported. The BB10 app will be comparable functionality-wise to the same applications coming soon for Android and iOS, though they will all have certain UI tweaks in order to be more aligned with their respective operating systems.

They are not quite at the final product yet and are currently working on tying in the UI experience, but Tru has committed to have the new app “ready to release at the same time as RIM’s launch of BB10,” which could be as early as October if rumors from around the internet prove true.

  • Jennifer Slovski

    That’s all cool, awesome, and sweet, but….

    What about Tru SIM? Where’s our bundles! lol

    • Adam Kelly

      I don’t know if we should give up waiting on that stuff or what too. Bundles would be nice. More countries would be great. All that has been on here so far has been news about the app which is good but we SIM users are getting left out and our questions we sent in awhile ago have yet to be answered. What’s the hold up?

      • http://trutower.com/author/joshnay/ Josh

        Hi Jennifer and Adam!

        Unfortunately you are right. We haven’t heard about Tru SIM yet. However, from what we hear, Tru is planning something big with Tru SIM this year! I’ll of course post any news I receive.

        We get a lot of rumors, but most are rubbish, and the last thing I want is people speculating on what’s to come with Tru SIM and getting their hopes up over something that isn’t going to happen.

        Stay tuned to TruTower.com! :)

        • Adam Kelly

          Thanks Josh!! :)

  • Amanda Lowe

    Finally Tru is doing something. Might be a little late, but hopefully the wait will be worth it.

    It’s a pity we have to wait until October though lol