Geeks.com is offering the 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for $150, today only.
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Still Buffering: Netflix Says Not to Expect BlackBerry Apps
“We don’t have any current plans to support Blackberry devices, including Playbook,” says a recent tweet from Netflix’s support account. It’s an issue that’s been a thorn in the sides of BlackBerry users for quite some time, but …
Here’s What’s New in the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Update
Research in Motion is breathing new life into its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet today with the release of PlayBook OS 2.0, an update that adds e-mail, a calendar, contacts and support for Android apps.
The PlayBook, a tablet with …
BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Hits $299 at Staples, Office Depot
BlackBerry’s 7-inch PlayBook tablet launched to mostly lackluster reviews back in April. It was the same old story: buggy software, tumbleweed in the app store and, most importantly, an uncompetitive price tag.
The intersection of supply and demand may be moving a tad closer to equilibrium on the PlayBook’s retail graph, though, as …
RIM BlackBerry PlayBook and Smartphone Sales Tank
So much for RIM’s brief PlayBook sales “surge” to “4.9% of the tablet market”: The company’s losing market share “much faster than expected to rivals Apple and Google,” reports Reuters this morning.
RIM took another bath in red ink yesterday, when it revealed its quarterly profits had plummeted, sending the company’s shares tumbling …
IDC: iPad 2, PlayBook Gobbled Android Market Share Last Quarter
It looks like both Apple’s iPad 2 and RIM’s PlayBook took a fairly big bite out of Android OS’s tablet market share in the second quarter of 2011. Market intelligence firm International Data Corporation reports that iPad 2 market share rose in Q2 2011, while Android’s collective tablet market share fell precipitously.
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Do Gadgets Really Make Our Lives More Complicated?
A new study published by Ad Age takes a look at the various ways new technologies—in particular, e-readers and tablets—influence the lives of the affluent, concluding that at the end of the day, additive technologies make life more complicated than not.
Assuming that “affluent” means households earning annual median incomes of …
Has Your BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Been Recalled?
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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Sprint Delays BlackBerry’s PlayBook Again
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 …
BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Officially for Sale Today
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.
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BlackBerry PlayBook Reviews: Good Hardware, Needs More Software
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 …
Apple Delays BlackBerry Tablet Because iPad 2 Is So in Demand
Well, that’s one way to beat the competition. According to Chinese trade website Digitimes, Apple had managed to delay the launch of the BlackBerry Playbook tablet by keeping touchscreen manufacturers so busy with iPad orders that they were too swamped to work on rival Blackberry’s tablet.
The website claims that PlayBook shipment was …