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The Research in Motion plans to launch a 10-inch version has been dissolved and now the company was thinking to develop a 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook, as per the reports from N4bb. com.

The new smartphone had kept in mind the key factors of the first QNX-powered BlackBerry. The company RIM was targeting to compete with the Apple’s popular iPad and its other tablets.

The reports doubted that the company had really any plans to develop a smartphone like this, but with the drop out of the 10 inch tablet plan Rim had confirmed its 7 inch launch by October of this year. The basic information that was revealed about the smartphone was that it was going to consist of a 4.3-inch touchscreen with 900 screen resolution," and was going to run on the same single-core, 1.2GHz chip that powered the BlackBerry Bold 9900, dual core processor installation was in doubts.

RIM, which was planning to develop the smartphone and become a must-have device for corporate and political world, faced the biggest threat in its two-decade-old history after a huge loss of market share to Apple and Google Android smart-phones, underperformance in the last two quarters and poor forecast amid delayed launch of new handsets.