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RIM Kills Off 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook |
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RIM Kills Off 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook
Has anyone actually got one of these tablets, seems a shame RIM have given up the fight already! Comments please.
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news...playbook-81568 |
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Has anyone actually got one of these tablets, seems a shame RIM have given up the fight already! Comments please.
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news...playbook-81568 “We continue to remain committed to the tablet space, and the 32GB and 64GB models of the BlackBerry PlayBook continue to be available from our distributors and retailers around the world,” the company told Cnet in a statement. |
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Would be nice if the 16gb models dropped in price because of this but I suspect the opposite will be true ..
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I bought a 16GB Playbook for £169. It may not be the best tablet in the world in terms of specs or apps, but for the price it's an excellent buy especially with the updated operating system.
If you want a small tablet for email, internet and multimedia then take a look. If you want a big tablet with lots of apps then look elsewhere. |
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Blackberry sent 10 Playbooks to the Council I work for last year as gifts or some like. I expect in the hope we'd order a lot more. Of course we didn't but I think the communications team use the Playbooks quite a lot (work wise).
The point is, if they did this for other councils, and there are a lot in the UK, it must have cost them a fortune. No wonder they're making huge losses. |
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I've had a 16 Gb tablet since Christmas and I have been more than pleased with its performance especially since the os2.0 was downloaded in February.
OK it may not have all the apps but for surfing the net and sending emails it's excellent. |
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Where did you get the idea that they're giving up the fight?
The PlayBook has been a spectacular failure, sales-wise. Even with its current price (massively reduced from its original iPad-matching price), it has not sold that well at all, and RIM has lost a hell of a lot of money on it. I think the only reason that RIM hasn't discontinued it like HP did with the TouchPad is that, unlike HP, RIM doesn't have a lot else going for it. Its business *is* BlackBerry. Ditch the tablet, and all its left with is the phone (also failing). [ see... http://news.yahoo.com/android-ios-ga...114521942.html http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23503312 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...tablet-mistake http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...tudy_says.html http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84S19D20120530 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8530TP20120604 etc. etc. ] |
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Comment - the tablet that killed a company.
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Making room on the production line for the next model, great little tablet, smooth as silk
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I bought a 16GB Playbook for £169. It may not be the best tablet in the world in terms of specs or apps, but for the price it's an excellent buy especially with the updated operating system.
If you want a small tablet for email, internet and multimedia then take a look. If you want a big tablet with lots of apps then look elsewhere. |
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I bought a 16GB Playbook for £169. It may not be the best tablet in the world in terms of specs or apps, but for the price it's an excellent buy especially with the updated operating system.
If you want a small tablet for email, internet and multimedia then take a look. If you want a big tablet with lots of apps then look elsewhere. |
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There was an application update to: 2.0.1.358 size 2MB
Does anyone know what was updated? |
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