Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet isn’t selling very well. While the company had hoped to ship at least 4 million tablets this year, it appears that fewer than 800 thousand BlackBerry tablets were shipped in the first half of 2011, and it’s not clear how many of those are still sitting on store shelves (instead of […]
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3 things the BlackBerry PlayBook does better than Android tablets
The BlackBerry PlayBook is a tablet with a speedy 1 GHz TI OMAP 4430 dual core processor, an attractive 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, and a new operating system that’s been designed for touch. But the PlayBook hasn’t gotten as much attention as competing tablets running Android or iOS in recent months, and […]
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BlackBerry PlayBook price cuts, software updates on the horizon
The BlackBerry PlayBook isn’t selling very well. Today Research in Motion executives noted that the company shipped 200,000 BlackBerry tablets during the latest quarter. Add the 500,000 tablets that RIM shipped the quarter before that, and… well that’s about it. RIM has shipped 700,000 tablets. We don’t know how many people have actually bought them because […]
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RIM shipped just 200,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets last quarter
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, […]
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BlackBerry PlayBook software update to add contacts, email, calendar apps
One of the most bewildering things about the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is that Research in Motion launched the device earlier this year without its own native email, calendar, or contact applications. The idea was that you could pair the tablet with your BlackBerry smartphone and view your BB calendar, contacts, and email — but that […]
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BlackBerry PlayBook finally getting BBM and native email
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 […]
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Sprint cancels plans for a 4G WiMAX BlackBerry PlayBook
Sprint announced plans way back in January to carry a version of the BlackBerry PlayBook with built-in support for Sprint’s 4G WiMAX mobile broadband network. If you’ve been holding your breath for the last 8 months you might as well exhale, because it turns out it’s not going to happen. Sprint has canceled plans for […]
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Now you can sync a BlackBerry PlayBook with a Mac
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has been available for two months, but up until recently there was no way to synchronize the device with a Mac. Now Research in Motion has released BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac 2.1 and it finally adds support for the PlayBook. BlackBerry Desktop Manager lets you sync data between a computer […]
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Rumored 10 inch BlackBerry PlayBook now rumored to be canceled
Nobody from Research in Motion never officially came out and said that the company was working on a 10 inch version of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. But there were rumors making the rounds that a larger version of RIM’s 7 inch tablet could ship later this year. Now the folks at n4bb are reporting that […]
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RIM: More than 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks shipped
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. […]