Neither Motorola XOOM, nor the presented by RIM in April, seven-inch tablet PlayBook have been able to approach the popularity level of Apple iPad. At the last quarterly conference, RIM acknowledged that, since the deliveries of PlayBook ( in April) RIM was able to ship only 500,000 tablets, and some part is not sold.
Assocaite reports that RIM may abandon plans to issue ten inch version PlayBook in favor of new smart phones - device with a 4.3 screen supports the resolution 960 x 540 pixels. smart phone can be equipped with single-core processor with 1.2 GHz. The new RIM smart phone will operate under the operating system QNX.
In October this year, RIM might finally start supplying BlackBerry version with seven-inch screen and support for LTE networks generation 4G.