Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook just isn’t getting the love from wireless carriers.
In the United Kingdom, O2 has scrapped plans to carry the 7-inch tablet, reportedly telling customers that “there are some issues with the end to end customer experience.” O2 hasn’t ruled out selling the PlayBook down the line and may work …
Someone in retail’s not happy about Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook.
An anonymous source, reportedly from a “major big box retailer,” told Boy Genius Report that RIM’s tablet missed sales targets by more than 90 percent. The source also said that return rates were much higher than those of the Motorola Xoom, which itself was …
Research In Motion has recalled a little over 900 of its new-ish 7-inch PlayBook tablets, citing a quirky installation of the operating system “that may result in the devices being unable to properly load software upon initial set-up,” as reported by CrackBerry.com.
If yours is one of the unlucky handful of tablets then you may want
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In a rare case where I hope the rumor proves false, Research in Motion may be planning a 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.
According to Boy Genius Report, the 10-inch PlayBook would debut this holiday season. The original PlayBook, a 7-inch tablet, launched last month.
Here’s the problem: The existing 7-inch PlayBook needs a lot …
He said, she said. In an internal document from Sprint, it would seem BlackBerry’s PlayBook is getting delayed again… indefinitely.
The CDMA variant of BlackBerry’s PlayBook was supposed to launch over the summer. Previous release dates had the PlayBook to debut on April 19th, and the latest one says that it will come in a few …
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My TIME.com Technologizer column this week looks at RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, a new tablet that’s frustrating in its initial incarnation: it’s full of promise, but feels like RIM simply didn’t have time to finish it before getting it out the door.
Despite the PlayBook’s software issues, the hardware is quite pleasing. With one …
Not so fast, Playbook owners. Your Adobe Flash-enabled tablets won’t be able to access the full web after all — not if Hulu has anything to say about it.
Playbook users, who over the last couple days were enjoying all the free streaming TV shows that Hulu’s website provides, have now discovered a big fat error message. “We notice …
Research in Motion’s Blackberry Playbook tablet got dinged by critics for its reliance on a Blackberry phone for e-mail and calendar support, among other things, but with AT&T, it’s a moot point.
That’s because Blackberry Bridge, an app which connects Blackberry phones to the Playbook tablet, isn’t available to AT&T customers. …
BlackBerry’s 7-inch PlayBook tablet is now available for purchase directly from the company or at Best Buy, Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples retail stores. Pricing starts at $500 for the 16-gigabyte version, with 32- and 64-gigabyte versions available for $600 and $700, respectively.
(More on TIME.com: BlackBerry PlayBook Reviews:
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Early reviews of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet are trickling in, with a generally positive reception of the hardware and dings against the lack of not only commonly built-in apps—there’s no native e-mail app, for instance—but a lack of apps in general.
The software seems to be a bit buggy in some areas as well, but RIM’s been …
Those rumors about the Blackberry Playbook running Android apps weren’t so wacky after all.
Research in Motion confirmed that its upcoming 7-inch tablet will provide Android developers with a simple way to port their apps to the Playbook. In other words, the entire Android Market won’t be available automatically–developers will still …
Research in Motion’s Blackberry Playbook will start at $499 when it launches on April 19, but we’re still missing a few details on the 7-inch tablet.
The Playbook is RIM’s first shot at the tablet market. It has similar processing power to Apple’s iPad 2, but comes in a size that’s more like Amazon’s Kindle, trading a larger screen …
