Leaked Blackberry Roadmap Shows BB10 Tablet on Horizon

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By Tomshardware
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Blackberry 10 Product Line up springs up; shows possible appearance of phablets.

A roadmap showing the BlackBerry 10 platform devices has been leaked from an unlisted Twitter account. The roadmap shows the potential for not only new phones but also phablets in the future.

In Q1 we can see the already-released Z10, with the Q10 in between Q1 and Q2 with a hardware keyboard. The surprise moves on towards late 2013, where the B10 and U10 are listed, which look remarkably like phablets. BlackBerry's CEO has already claimed that it is not planning to make a tablet any time soon, but whether his use of the word can be extended to include tablet like phones is debatable. 

As no one has managed to trace the source of the roadmap thus far, and we could not get any response from BlackBerry ourselves about the validity of the claims, we cannot say whether or not this leaked information holds any value at all.

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9 Comments Comment from the forums
  • if you make it a cheap 7" tablet like the nexus 7 then I might consider it, from what I read, the Playbook was a pretty solid device, and would consider another blackberry device when my nexus 7 gets old
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  • Derek Wilson
    I read on the internets that it was an April fool joke.
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  • Derek Wilson
    That was four days ago. Just out of interest, do you get paid for doing this? Frankly, I am not sure which is worse, this, or the article about the IT journalist who had not yet learned how USB ports were situated relative to the pcb.
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  • Derek Wilson
    Although to be fair, that chap was an Apple fanbois, so we know he relies on them for all his info. Thought! Want to make money with an iOS app? How to use USB app.
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  • nhat11
    Wheres the upgrade to BB10 for the playbook?
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  • maximus20895
    wozza365if you make it a cheap 7" tablet like the nexus 7 then I might consider it, from what I read, the Playbook was a pretty solid device, and would consider another blackberry device when my nexus 7 gets old
    Yea, it's a solid device, but you couldn't do anything on it since it was confined the the BB store. I would have not purchased it if I could go back in time. I really think it was a joke. The Fire was far better at that time.
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  • gsxrme
    Poor blackberry, I will always remember them even after this next fail. I loved you guys before Apple and Google took over :(
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  • Derek Wilson
    The only thing worse than having to wait for BB10 OS to arrive on your Playbook is not having to wait for BB10 OS to arrive on your Playbook.

    These comments have quickly become a greater contribution to the internet than the original article.

    They did not set the bar high though!
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  • shqtth
    Enjoying my Z10 ;)
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