Rumors about the QNX powered BlackBerry Colt started spreading a little over a month ago and yesterday during RIM’s Q2 Fiscal 2012 earnings call, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie both confirmed that QNX powered BlackBerry smartphones will be previewed at BlackBerry DevCon 2011 next month.

The future of Research in Motion and the BlackBerry hinges on the companies ability to deliver on QNX.  It will be interesting to see what RIM comes up with…