Research in Motion plans to roll out version 2.0 of its operating system for the BlackBerry PlayBook operating system later this month — and the company is starting to show off some new features. We already knew that PlayBook OS 2.0 would include support for some Android applications as well as native email, contact, and calendar apps. But Pocket Lint…

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Research in Motion’s current BlackBerry PlayBook features a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1 GHz TI OMAP4 dual core processors. It was released in early 2011, but RIM plans to offer a major software update soon that will make the tablet more useful by adding native email, calendar, and contact apps as well as support for…

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Research in Motion will roll out BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 to the public in February. The OS has been in public beta for months, but RIM is showing off the new software on tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas and plans to roll out the update to everyone starting next month. The company is playing…

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Research in Motion has releases its latest quarterly earnings report, and while the company shipped more than 14 million smartphones, RIM only moved about 150,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the quarter ending November 26th, 2011. The company shipped about 200,000 tablets the previous quarter, and half a million the quarter before that, which means that since the tablet launched earlier this year…

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So you didn’t get a chance to pick up a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for under $200 when they were available in November? Don’t worry, the 7 inch tablet will be on sale again after Christmas. Update 12/19/2011: Some stores are already selling the tablets for $199 and up.  The folks at SprintFeed got a leaked copy of the Sprint after-Christmas…

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Last night Research in Motion released a software update for the BlackBerry PlayBook designed to patch the security hole used by the Dingleberry tool for rooting the tablet. But it didn’t take long for DingleBerry 2.0 to hit the scene, making it possible to root a PlayBook even after it’s been updated with OS version 1.0.8.6067. If you root your…

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A team of independent developers say they’ve managed to root their BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, gaining access to escalated device privileges and accessing settings that would not otherwise be available. They plan to release a tool called DingleBerry to the public soon, which would allow anyone to root a PlayBook. But in order to figure out how to root the tablet,…

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In our Black Friday roundup, we noted that a handful of retailers will be offering the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for prices as low as $199.99 on the day after Thanksgiving. But some stores aren’t waiting. A number of electronics chains in Canada are already offering deep discounts on the tablet, and today Best Buy and Buy.com started offering the PlayBook…

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Research in Motion has announced that its next-generation tablets and smartphones will both run the same operating system. Right now the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet runs something called BlackBerry Tablet OS (which is based on QNX software), while the company’s phones run BlackBerry OS. Future devices will run something new called BBX. RIM says it combines the features of of BlackBerry…

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  Things aren’t looking good for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Research in Motion is reporting its quarterly earnings today, and the company announced that it shipped 200,000 tablets during the quarter. That’s about one half to one third of what analysts had expected. The figure also only tells us how many PlayBook tablets were sent to stores, wireless carriers, and other partners….

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The BlackBerry PlayBook has made a respectable showing in the tablet market so far. RIM isn’t blowing through PlayBook inventory like iPad 2s, but with more than half a million shipped and strong sales posted in some corners of the globe, things are looking pretty rosy for the Waterloo company. Next month, the PlayBook is going to get a little…

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The BlackBerry PlayBook may not be selling in iPad-like quantities, but Research in Motion says it has shipped more than half a million PlayBooks so far. That’s not bad for product that just went on sale in April, especially one that doesn’t run any of the thousands of third party apps designed for BlackBerry smartphones. The PlayBook is a 7…

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