Has RIM scrapped its plans for 10-inch PlayBook to focus on launching a Superphone?

It has long been rumoured that Waterloo's Research in Motion had plans to launch a 10-inch PlayBook by the end of the year. Some said it would include 4G capability, or be made available in white, or be thinner than the 7-inch, or some combination of the aforementioned.

This may all be irrelevant now, as Crackberry reports that development on the next PlayBook has ceased as RIM shifts its focus entirely on a different future product: its first "superphone."

The superphone would be a next-gen BlackBerry running a mobile operating system based on QNX's software (which runs on the PlayBook) and some beastly tech specs.

Crackberry calls this the "most logical rumor we've heard about RIM in quite some time," and it's easy for me to agree. They need a smartphone, or "superphone," that can truly compete with the next-gen iPhone and Android's finest devices. And they need one fast.