RIM’s 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook 2 reportedly canceled to make way for first QNX phone

By on Jun 28, 2011 at 6:45 PM
mobile June 28, 2011

BGR exclusively reported back in May that RIM was working on a 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook 2 that the company hoped to launch in time for the holidays this year. Now, according to a report from BlackBerry enthusiast blog N4BB, those plans have been canceled. The blog claims that RIM decided to pull the large-form tablet and instead focus as much effort as possible on building and releasing its first QNX-powered BlackBerry smartphone. Specs of the purported next-generation BlackBerry smartphone include a single-core 1.2GHz processor — though it may be swapped for a dual-core if RIM can find a way to reduce the drain on the battery — along with a 4.3-inch high-resolution touchscreen display. Further details surrounding the device were not made available, nor was a codename, launch name or a time frame for the device’s release. Finally, the report claims that RIM’s delayed 4G PlayBook tablets will finally launch in October.

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  • http://twitter.com/kaydpea chris moore

    everybody is foaming at the mouth for qnx handsets, to me this is just another JUST WAIT WE’RE GONNA RULE b.s. nonsense fairy tale by rim.  qnx isn’t even next generation, they still have to launch bbos 7…. which btw who would even by that stuff?  the only people RIM has left are die hards, and they’re going to be well aware that os7 is one generation and their phones won’t get qnx, it’s like buying an iphone 1 right now.  dead before it hits the market, and with developers jumping ship, and screaming about how terrible development for qnx is i can’t really see this picture improving for RIM.  it doesn’t matter how good the OS is (see webOS) if you don’t have the tools to sell phones or more importantly development interest, you’re doomed to fail.  RIM at this point has neither, carriers recommend their customers stay away from their products, and nobody is making anything for blackberry.  for the die hards though, this image simply isn’t clear, just wait till MAJOR developers bail, like facebook and twitter.

    • Anonymous

      I didn’t want to respond to your idiotic post because I thought you were either mentally retarded or suffered blunt force trauma as a baby.  But your ignorance was too much to bear.

      RIM develops its own Facebook and Twitter apps.  So maybe you should come up with another example of a “major” developer for Blackberry bailing to help firm up the weak meme your puerile mind tells you to promulgate. 

      And your concern about legacy support is comical.  I guess in your mind old iPod Touches and iPhones will run iOS5 flawlessly and all Froyo and Gingerbread phones will get the upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelloshooters, KremePie or whatever stupid name Android gives its next OSs. 

      For individuals such as yourself, that probably went to TTT State U or TTTT Private U, life must be hard.  As part of the 18%+ unemployed or underemployed, you look at your life as an abject failure.  Cruising around in your hand-me-down Honda and living in your parents’ basement, you have to find some way to make your pathetic existence seem not so much so. 

      For those of us that get up every morning to go to work, and wear a nice suit and not something with a name badge on it, we need a phone that *GASP* actually can place/receive calls, instantly send and receive e-mails, communicate through messaging like BBM with colleagues and clients and do all of this without having to worry about recharging our battery every 3 1/2 hours.  I don’t have the time to play silly games or download masturbation apps for my phone. 

      So go back to your sweet basement apartment bachelor pad and play Angry Birds or oogle bitches on BroBible for as long as your iToy or Droid can stay charged.  I’ll be at work using my ‘Berry to put $$$ in the bank. 

  • Ferguson

    For you iPhone fanboys who only talk about how bad RIM is and their coming doom, check out this article (actually read it) and see how much doom really awaits RIM when they get the U.S. Government and military contract for supplying them with QNX Playbooks. Let’s not forget also all the biz that will follow suit. READ THE ARTICLE, if you dare.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JNKVTT7PJMXPYP2GVCIERBQQCU Andrew

    They should have canceled the first playbook and went to QNX on phones….DUH.

  • J. Williams

    So shocking. I got rid of my playbill so long ago, and the 10 inch would not have made a difference RIM.

  • http://twitter.com/demiroquai demiroquai

    I’d like to see the phone before I judge… RIM was my all time fav for so long. Its a shame they have almost completely become irrelevant for smart phones. 

  • Pissed off BB user

    Rim is years behind now, instead off focusing first on their bread and butter cellphones they shot their load rushing out the tablet.  
    They need to learn you have to exceed customer expectations these days not just barely meet them.
    An example how they are clueless they are, they bought out my favorite BB app Viigo and turned into some garbage news browser that I hate and never use. What was the point of that move, to piss off disappoint me? Congrats, it worked!Never mind that it is it still impossible to do any real surfing on their phones even after using webkit.Thanks a lot RIM, after my third BB you can bet I will never spend another dime on a BB.

  • Anonymous

    I want my PB2 – to include a fully functional phone – so that one device is my portable office & comms centre.
    Apple have limited the relevance of the iPad i this arena, and Android is still evolving too much,  Fragmentationis imoproving, but everyone is beholden to the carriers.
    C’mon RIM make the break – QNX is a great OS platform.   PB2 with phone and included SIP client to satisfy the customers – not the carriers.

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