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 is again offering the BlackBerry PlayBook 7 inch tablet for as little as $199. Last month the company ran a baffling promotion with the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB versions of the tablet all priced at $299. But until February 11th you can pick up the 16GB model for $199. RIM is also selling a 32GB tablet for $249…

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Research in Motion plans to release BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 later this month. When the company showed off an early build of the new operating system for PlayBook tablets at CES in January, RIM highlighted the new calendar, contact, and email apps — but made no mention of the fact that the tablets would be able to run Android applications….

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Research in Motion is expected to launch an updated BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in a few months. We’ve heard a lot about the tablet already thanks to some leaked information over the last few weeks, and now someone has gone and leaked a whole slideshow to BGR with the company’s smartphone and tablet plans for 2012. The new BlackBerry PlayBook could…

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Research in Motion has released a new beta version of OS 2.0 for the BlackBerryPlayBook Tablet. You can register your Playbook to download OS 2.0.0.7111 at the BlackBerry website. The new software is aimed at developers that want to test their apps before PlayBook OS 2.0 is available to the public. But the latest beta does include a handful of…

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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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The folks behind the Dingleberry tool for rooting a BlackBerry PlayBook have released a new version with two key features: Dingleberry 3.0 now lets you downgrade your PlayBook operating system. There’s now support for streaming video from Hulu baked in. Shortly after the first version of Dingleberry was released, Research in Motion pushed a software update for the BlackBerry PlayBook that…

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If you didn’t get a chance to pick up a BlackBerry PlayBook when the 7 inch tablet was on sale for under $200, fear not. A handful of retailers are offering the tablet for $199 and up again starting today. Staples has the 16GB model for $199, a 32GB tablet for $299, and a 64GB version for $399. Best Buy…

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Research in Motion has released a new beta version of the BlackBerry PlayBook operating system. PlayBook OS 2.0.0.6149 for the tablet feels smother and faster than the previous beta nad fixes a number of quirks. But there’s bad news for anyone that’s rooted a PlayBook using Dingleberry. Update: Now you can use Dingleberry 3.0 to downgrade your tablet so that…

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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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If you’ve already rooted your BlackBerry PlayBook, you may have encountered a screen like the one above. Unlike a run-of-the-mill Android tablet, there’s no box to check that lets you install Android apps from “unknown sources.” Instead, you can install Android apps that have been converted to BlackBerry PlayBook apps by downloading them from the BlackBerry App World or another…

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