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"Research In Motion has had problems lately \u2014 a plummeting stock price, high-profile executive exits and another delay of its next-generation smartphone platform, BlackBerry 10. But it has a plan. An alleged leaked document purports to show the company's roadmap for BB10, and it has a couple of surprises.\nThe enthusiast site BlackBerryOS.com posted the document, provided by an \"anonymous source.\" Among other things, it shows RIM will launch BlackBerry 10 in Europe in early January 2013, with the U.S. getting the new OS and devices three to four weeks afterward, around the first week of February.\nThat makes a great deal of sense, since overseas markets have been generally more receptive to RIM's devices, with better market share in place like the U.K. than America.\nThe BlackBerry 10 launch will include the touchscreen phone we've heard through various rumors, the \"London,\" as well as \"Nevada,\" a BB10 phone with a keyboard, something CEO Thorsten Heins promised at BlackBerry World in May. The names are likely just codenames, and two others are on the document: \"Nashville\" and \"Naples.\" The roadmap shows spring/summer and summer/fall launches for those, respectively, though there are no other details on those devices.\n\nSEE ALSO: With BlackBerry 10, RIM Is Fighting the Wrong War\nThe document also says RIM will release a 10-inch tablet sometime in 2013, most likely summer. Codenamed \"Blackforest,\" this will likely be the rumored 10-inch PlayBook, a larger version of RIM's current tablet, but running BlackBerry 10 software. The number \"128\" is visible next to the device's name, which could be a reference to the device's capacity, 128GB, but that's highly speculative.\nUntil BlackBerry 10 launches, the only new device RIM appears to have planned is the PlayBook 4G, an LTE version of the current tablet, due in fall 2012. That device will get upgraded to BlackBerry 10, along with the current PlayBook, after BB10 launches next year.\nRIM didn't respond to a request for comment about the document, but the roadmap lines up with many of the rumors that have been circulating for months. However, even if it is legit, plans can change at anytime, as RIM's most recent delay of BlackBerry 10 has shown.\nWhat do you think of RIM's alleged plans for BlackBerry 10? Sound off in the comments.\nImage courtesy of BlackBerryOS.com\nThumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, franckreporter\nBONUS: BlackBerry 10's Best Features\n\n\n5 Things That Are Actually Pretty Cool About BlackBerry 10\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlance Back\nSaying BlackBerry 10 is all about the \"flow\" between apps, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins showed how users could quickly see other apps running by \"glancing back\" via menus that peek out from the side.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime-Shifting Camera\nThe cameras on BlackBerry 10 phones will be able to capture imagery before and after you take the shot, letting you \"go back in time\" in case, say, someone closes their eyes. In his keynote, Heins showed how it could be targeted by area.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmart Onscreen Keyboard\nRIM's known for physical keyboards, but the onscreen keyboard steals the show in BlackBerry 10. The phone predicts what words you want to type, putting them above the keys they start with. If you want to delete entire words, just start swiping backward.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCascades\nCascades are a BB10 developer tool (in beta) that lets app creators easily add dynamic elements to items like buttons, check boxes and fields. They're compatible with multiple programming languages, and animations are built in: for example, a check box doesn't just appear, it \"springs\" into place, as RIM describes. There's also a Cascades plug-in for Photoshop.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBattery Monitoring From Apps\nIndividual apps can check the battery status and either warn the user that the task they're about to start might result in data loss, or take precautions, like dimming the screen.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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