“A few weeks back we exclusively received word on some of the details regarding the rumored 10″ BlackBerry PlayBook aka PlayBook 2,” Lucas Atkins reports for N4BB.
“However, it seems RIM has changed their mind, as we’ve received new word that the entire 10″ PlayBook development has been canceled,” Atkins reports. “The reason we’re told is for production focus on the first QNX powered BlackBerry ‘Superphone.'”
Atkins reports, “There is no known release date for the BlackBerry ‘Superphone’ or a known codename.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: There’s only one “superphone.”
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Blackberry’s new Superphone!!
Super-phony iPhone.
Plus one my friend.
Not gonna say it… can’t help self….Bloodbath!
No No No. You got to say it right.
It not BLOODBATH! It’s …..B..B..B…BLOODBATH!!
Blackberry’s new Vaporphone!
Love the avatar.
Let’s be honest. R.I.M. = Replacements in Macstores (now)
There goes more RIMjobs being lost. How will they make up for the lost RIMjobs? I hope they work on that phone faster so more RIMjobs aren’t lost.
Apoplectic ROTFLMAO
R I P Playbook lol
The name alone is an admission of self-doubt.
Swirling.
I can’t wait to hear the co-CEOs explain how they discovered that the 7-inch playbook is so perfect, so exactly what everyone wants, that they realized they had to dump the 10-incher because their current level of perfection could never be equaled.
There can be ONLY ONE!!
Aww, man. Is professional hour over already? Fscking douchebags. Good bye, RIMM. Hee, hee, hee ….
So RIM shrunk from 10″ to 7″?
How embarrassing.
Rather shouldn’t that be, RIM couldn’t get it up to 10 inches… Now that IS embarrassing! ( chuckles)…
The co-CEOs will tell you it’s not the size, but rather what you can do with it.
In RIM’s case, that’s not much.
Super phone because, unlike the PlayBook, it can do email without syncing to another device!
These “leaks” (many of them intentional) just cause any remaining RIM customers to delay purchases of existing RIM products.
I doubt both of their customers will delay their purchases.
transient phonenema
Probably a good think for RIM. If the 10″ Playbook was going to be as half-assed as the 7″ model, then RIM should put its money into a new phone OS rather than a tablet that’s going to gather dust on Staples’ shelves.
It’s not the OS per se, but rather the software layered on top of it.
QNX is an Unix-like OS that was developed for realtime applications. I’ve been aware of it since the 80s. It has a very good reputation for realtime systems in a wide variety industries; even after being purchased by RIM it is still available for purchase, see qnx.com
I hope that if RIM dissolves, QNX survives and grows.
Ha! *Now* “Amateur Hour” is over, indeed.
I’m still stunned by what snotbags these guys were. SO condescending. SO “of course we’ll destroy Apple with the Playbook.” SO “Amateur hour is over.
Indeed.
Even Arnold J. is sneering at how lame these RIMmers are!
But it’s just laughable that they call the apps on their smartphones, “Superapps”, when they are the same apps on iOS and Android. If Apple did that, you know there’d be someone launching a class-action lawsuit, for marketing regular apps as Super apps.
Now, a StuporPhone. Can’t they leave well enough alone?
Cue RIMshot
Hold that 10″ Playbook 2. Let’s make a smokescreen “cough superphone cough”, and get to work on that shitty OS.
The really sad thing is they should have started on that ‘superphone’ on January 9, 2007. I guess they are still trying to figure out if Apple can produce it. 🙂
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: RIM needs to change their name to BRIM, because every time I see them mentioned anywhere, it’s always “Beleaguered RIM.”
Got to Say it also…
BLOODBATH!!