BlackBerry manufacturer RIM is clearly struggling these days and there are talks the Canadian company will eventually agree to lucrative acquisition offers. There were rumors already that Amazon was interested in the RIM, but that seems to be a part of history now as new rumors say Microsoft and Nokia want to jointly bid for the RIM ownership.

The two companies are holding continuous talks with the RIM executives, but the very details of informal negotiations are still uncertain. The only basis to suppose the RIM would agree to acquisition bids is that the company is finding it more and more difficult to stay on top amid such a huge competition among the leading smartphone manufactures. The RIM seems to be losing a significant part of its once so loyal customers, besides the company’s stock was in a continuous downfall this year. Moreover, Windows Phones and Android have become now so popular that BlackBerry OS is in danger to be called obsolete.

Even if no takeover option is discussed, the RIM would definitely love to cooperate now with Microsoft and Nokia — in May it became known the BlackBerry smartphones will be using Bing search engines for web searches. Bing even was to be incorporated on the operating system level. While Microsoft may be interested in merely software cooperation, Nokia would be happier if it could use Microsoft to jointly take over the RIM.

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Photos and videos of Nokia 5700 Smartphone have appeared in one of the Chinese forums. It would seem that there is nothing unusual in it- this model was released 3 years ago and is being sold for a long time.

However, it is interesting, that after the Chinese craftsmen have worked on it, Nokia 5700 started working not on Symbian S60 3rd edition operating system, but on the BlackBerry OS. And if the photos are still fake, it will be more difficult to falsify the video. Most likely, the device was indeed patched and received a new software platform.
In this video Nokia 5700 runs under the guidance of BlackBerry OS 4.6. It is not clear whether the operating system is fully working on this Smartphone, but what is shown in the video, it is possible to draw a conclusion – it works quite well. It is not clear why Nokia 5700 works with BlackBerry OS instead of the usual S60, but, it is, at least interesting.