Get your salt shakers ready as this one seems like a stretch to me, but it looks like RIM’s known secrecy of device releases has been breached. Two days ago, Business Insider posted what they claim to be a snapshot of RIM’s product roadmap for 2010. Dan, from Business Insider, claims the roadmap came from a recent research report from RBC analyst, Mike Abramsky. The rumors and this roadmap seem to line up well, save a few details and some things we have yet to hear of. One being that the Onyx Delta  is now model number 9900 and a touchscreen device, rather than 9700a and no touchscreen. To me, looking at this chart just goes to show how diluted RIM’s branding is becoming. They have 3G Curve models, non-3G Curve models, Bold devices with touchscreens, Curve devices with touchscreens, a dual-screen clamshell device with no distinct branding, etc. The more they expand, the more diluted it will get.

The devices listed in the picture above are:

Bold 9800 Slider “Talladega” in August 2010 on AT&T for a 6-month exclusive, others Q1/Q2 of 2011

3G Curve 9300/9330 “Kepler”/“Aries II” in Q3 2010

Emerging Markets Bold “Atlas” in Q3/Q4 2010 on China Mobile

Touchscreen Bold 9900 “Onyx Delta” in Q3/Q4 2010

9670 Clamshell “Oxford” in Q3/Q4 2010 on Verizon

Touchscreen Curve “Dakota” in Q4 2010

What do you guys make of this? Do you believe this is the roadmap or just a decent, estimated guess? All I know is I’m ready for the 9800 and BlackBerry 6! What say you?

via: BlackBerry Rocks