Following on from a pretty interesting week internally, RIM has decided to completely slash the price of the BlackBerry Playbook for the umpteenth time. At just £169 for the cheapest model, is the QNX-based tablet now cheap enough to finally compete? Read more
RIM’s joint CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have stepped down; the announcement sees Thorsten Heins stepping up to the plate to try and turn things around for the ailing mobile firm.
But while the world at large lays into RIM and the BlackBerry brand, we’ve decided to take a look at what’s been going right for the company, and which of Balsillie and Lazaridis’ recent wins will see it through. Read more
Surprising news, this. Despite the fact that RIM is having to continually drop the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook, to the point that you’ll probably get one posted through your door soon, word is that there are two new models on the way this year. Read more
The BlackBerry PlayBook has recently been on the end of some serious price crashes by RIM due to poor sales, which in turn is probably due to poor developer support and a lack of apps. Now there’s at least one great game for the tab: Super Mario Bros from the NES. Read more
Put it down to poor shipping figures or the winter sales, but the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has been drastically reduced across the board at UK retailers, right down to £169. Will we see the equivalent of the HP TouchPad firesale all over again?
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet’s not had the best time of things, with poor critical reception, vital missing services and Adobe giving up on one of its biggest selling points. Now, it’s being touted by RIM as a freebie to lure people into upgrading their BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).
RIM’s decision to keep Flash playing nice with its BlackBerry PlayBook caused plenty of consternation across the web yesterday, not least here at Electricpig Towers. And having taking the Canadian company to task, RIM has contacted us to explain its position, telling us it’s not discriminating between Flash and HTML5. Read on to see just what RIM has to say.
The news that RIM is going to continue supporting Flash on the BlackBerry PlayBook in order to offer “an uncompromised web browsing experience” has already caused widespread bafflement this morning. Add that to the fact that phones using the new BBX operating system will have the same screen resolution as the PlayBook, meaning apps for the slate will lack any kind of cache, and the reasons to buy one of RIM’s tablets are looking more thin on the ground than ever.
