RIM's handsets won't be getting BlackBerry 10 until later this year

RIM's handsets won't be getting BlackBerry 10 until later this year, but once they do, the PlayBook will be next in line.

That's according to Rob Orr, RIM's VP of product management, who confirmed the news to TechRadar. "We've said publicly a number of times that our first BB10 handset will be available towards the end of 2012, and that's still firmly the case," Orr said.

"At some point after the launch we'll bring BB10 to our PlayBooks, yes." Orr apparently didn't get any more specific than that, though he did mention that RIM has seen a spike in updates to PlayBook OS 2.0, which came out just last month.

According to the exec, about 50 per cent of all users made the jump on the day it came out, which just goes to show how great e-mail is.