It seems rumours of a larger 10-inch Blackberry PlayBook might just be true...and it could be launched fairly soon.
Crackberry website says it's had an email from a reader who spotted what looked like a prototype 10-inch model on a flight from Dallas to Toronto. It's common practice for RIM - based in Toronto - to give pre-production devices to executives to test. RIM has already released a 7-inch PlayBook which has had a fairly underwhelming reaction from reviewers and doesn't appear to be flying off the shelves.
Presumably, RIM believes a larger device is more likely to challenge the iPad.
(Via: Crackberry)Today, On a flight from Dallas to Toronto I sat across the aisle from someone who had BOTH a 7" Blackberry playbook and what looked like a 10" Blackberry playbook as well. The 10" unit looked identical to the 7" unit and had the telltale vertical slotted speaker slits on the right and left side, forward facing camera (top middle) and some type of round sensor to the left of the camera sensor.The larger unit had visibly better screen image quality than the 7"unit, significantly better contrast, brightness and viewing angle. I had a Xoom with me and it looked about the same size. I was able to see the menus/screens and it looked very similar to to the 7" screens. Additionally, the person who had this larger playbook was playing Need For Speed.
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