Tablet Crunch

Get a Blackberry Playbook 64GB tablet at Amazon right now starting around $252, that 63% off suggested retail price. I was just reading about how PC World is getting all excited about finding a Blackberry Playbook 64GB tablet for $299 on Newegg.com.  Well, I have to admit that is a great price, but what if I told ...

RIM had to write off $485 million (nearly half a billion dollars) in unsold inventory of Playbook tablets, and the company is issuing warnings that it expects to sell even fewer Blackberry smartphones during the holiday season as well. All of this is contributing to RIM's declining share prices and creating uncertainty as to the future ...

RIM is trying to lure in potential buyers of the Blackberry Playbook tablet by offering to give you a free one if you upgrade to the Blackberry Enterprise Server v5.0 by December 31st. But is this really a good deal? Considering that the Blackberry Enterprise Server client is several thousands dollars, I'm not really convinced that the free ...

Leaked images of the Blackberry Playbook OS 2.0 have made their way onto the web for our consumption, and these images come with a few surprises indeed. For one, as you can see in the images below, there's a cute little green robot hanging out on the far left that implies, quite strongly, that Android integration ...

In Orlando at the Blackberry World Keynote presentation RIM announced that Angry Birds will be available as a native app on the Blackberry Playbook.  It is expected to be available by August.  By some estimates Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 30 million times.  It is not that the Playbook does not have plenty ...

Today is April 19th, 2011, and today is the day one tech giant introduces a new tablet to the fast growing tablet market.  That's right, the Blackberry Playbook launches today.  The playbook is expected to sell 100,000 units in Q4 2011, but is that enough to disrupt the tablet market? Here are some Blackberry Playbook sales ...

With the popularity of the iPad and now the iPad 2, tablet competitors are trying to find every possible leverage they can. None moreso than Blackberry, with their Blackberry Playbook coming to market on April 19th. Yesterday, Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of RIM (maker of Blackberry), announced that Android 2.3 app developers will be ...

Some new info is hitting the web tonight about the pricing on the Blackberry Playbook tablet. Previously, Playbook pricing was expected to come in just under $500. But the new info is coming from MobilityInsider that states the following: There will be 3 models of the BlackBerry PlayBook (8GB, 16GB and 32GB) that are currently tagged ...

The Blackberry Playbook is starting to build up momentum in expectation that the tablet device can tailor itself well in the enterprise marketplace. Only a handful of people have even played around with RIM's Playbook tablet, yet still we have increasingly higher expectations from analysts. Playbook's release date is expected sometime in February 2011. One analyst, Oppenheimer's ...

The Blackberry Playbook was announced at the end of September and promoted as a potential iPad killer. However, because of its 7 inch touch screen display, it has also been predicted that it will be DOA - dead on arrival. I wouldn't necessarily say the Playbook will be dead on arrival, but it certainly will ...

If nothing else, the Blackberry Blackpad tablet is picking up a lot of publicity as rumors are sprouting up that the tablet device could be announced as early as next week at developer's conference in San Francisco. Speculation has been building around Blackberry's Blackpad tablet, as well as anticipation, as Blackberry is struggling to find ...

Blackberry's very own tablet device, the Blackpad, looks to have the OS (operating system) issue settled. It is being reported that RIM (the maker of Blackberry) is turning to QNK Software Systems to power the operating system for the Blackpad tablet. RIM acquired QNX back in April and they are best known for providing software to the ...

Can the Blackpad compete against the iPad? Blackberry is ready to jump in on the explosive tablet market. However, RIM (maker of Blackberry) is already under intense pressure from investors because they have yet to show signs of competing in the touchscreen space. Of course, Apple's iPad has exploded onto the scene forcing nearly all major ...