After being MIA for quite some time, RIM’s long-rumoured tablet is getting cooked up, again. Wall Street Journal has a news report that says the tablet, Blackpad or SurfBook or whatever, will be launched by RIM as early as next week! Now if you look in the calendar, next week is the company’s Develop Conference in San Francisco. The QNX operating system is also sticking to this tablet. The only connectivity you’ll get from this brick would be through Wi-Fi, which means this thing won’t be sold with a data plan and contract.

The manufacturing wizards at Quanta are rumored to be on tap for manufacturing it with some sort of Marvell power under the hood, and even if the tablet ultimately fails Foleo-style, it could still be a huge launch: WSJ’s sources are also saying that RIM will end up migrating all of its phones to QNX in the long term.

SOURCE via Wall Street Journal