Rumour: RIM cans rumoured 10in PlayBook

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="80" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/Review%20images/TechRadar/Computing/BlackBerry%20PlayBook/overview-200-200.jpg" width="120" /></p><br/>It's a RIM rumour overload as an anonymous tipster reveals that the BlackBerry maker has cancelled development of the never-confirmed 10-inch PlayBook tablet.<br/><br/>According to this source, the company has ditched the larger tablet in favour of cracking on with its first QNX-based superphone, which you'd think they'd have already been working on.<br/><br/>The source came up with some specs for the handset, too – a single-core 1.2GHz processor, 900+ resolution and a 4.3-inch touchscreen.<br/><br/><strong>Facts like gold dust</strong><br/><br/>Two rumours don't necessarily make a respectable supposition, but some of these specs do match up with what Carlo Chiarello, VP of the GSM business unit at RIM, told TechRadar back in May:<br/><br/>"That [QNX] experience is going to start to come in to our high tier products. I can't tell you when… But it's absolutely part and parcel of what we're working on now.<br/><br/>"I can tell you that it's going to come in to the higher tier value propositions first. It'll probably come into an all-touch first, more than likely."<br/><br/>As much as we'll concede that a 10-inch PlayBook would have been a sensible thing for RIM to consider and that focusing on its smartphones might be a better use of its time, we can't help but feel this particular set of rumours could have come from the land of mobile phone unicorns and dancing tablet nymphs.

Rumour: RIM cans rumoured 10in PlayBook

It's a RIM rumour overload as an anonymous tipster reveals that the BlackBerry maker has cancelled development of the never-confirmed 10...

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