Get ready for another BlackBerry PlayBook fire sale !
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The TouchPad didn’t fly off store shelves until Hewlett Packard (HP) slashed the price of the webOS tablet to $99.


Although RIM probably won’t go that far, retailers are preparing to significantly lower PlayBook prices this holiday season.
Get ready for the BlackBerry PlayBook fire sale

According to The Verge, Staples will be selling the 16GB version for $199 on Black Friday, while Canadian retailers plan to drop the price to $199 for the 16GB model, $299 for 32GB, and $399 for 64GB.


As Eddie Fu of The Verge notes, the reported discount would make the BlackBerry tablet competitive with hot new devices like the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. 


Plus, RIM is supposedly readying a software update that could help fill in some of the features that were missing on the tablet’s launch date. 


RIM’s fire sale, although not as dramatic as HP’s, could help the company raise flagging sales of the PlayBook which only shipped 200,000 units last quarter - disappointing analysts who originally projected sales in the 400,000-600,000 range. 

Of course, RIM and HP are not the only ones hurting in the Apple iPad dominated tablet world, as Motorola only managed to offload 100,000 Xoom tablets in the third quarter, racking up an operating loss of $32 million. Ouch!
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Here we go again!
I considered getting one 6 months ago, as it seemed nice when I tried one, but I'm honestly not sure. It's a really nice size, but you only really get the most out of it if you have a Blackberry phone. Also, it had a really botched launch.
Oh god, not to mention how RIMs been going recently
Buying anything BlackBerry these days is just like throwing your money into a blender.
I'm good, but thanks for the heads up
[QUOTE=Wiggles;33316557]Buying anything BlackBerry these days is just like throwing your money into a blender.[/QUOTE]
I'm okay with them, they're not great but at least they're not obnoxious
Don't bother, they will be out of stock within 30 minutes
Native android port or GTFO.
Does anybody even use BlackBerry's nowadays? Except for businessmen.
Can someone explain me why everyone thinks this thing is so bad?
[QUOTE=Mr.T;33316935]Does anybody even use BlackBerry's nowadays? Except for businessmen.[/QUOTE]
Youths.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;33316935]Does anybody even use BlackBerry's nowadays? Except for businessmen.[/QUOTE]
Lots of mid-teens to young adults still uses them, as well as those who texts very often
[QUOTE=IceBlizzard;33316941]Can someone explain me why everyone thinks this thing is so bad?[/QUOTE]
I don't know, I heard it was actually pretty good
Still too much imo. And no Gmail app? ughhh.
I just want a tablet for hand writing notes (only iPad offers this well :pwn:), comic/book reading, email, and some light browsing.
[QUOTE=wewt!;33317378]I don't know, I heard it was actually pretty good[/QUOTE]
It is very good, cnet still has it as their best 7 inch tablet, and I can say it is very good from experience.
It's a nice tablet, but I wouldn't want one due to it being Blackberry, especially with RIM's current state. If it was more mainstream, maybe, but Android and iOS are the bigger players in terms of tablets and phones, and that shows in app quality and quantity for both.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;33317739]I just want a tablet for hand writing notes (only iPad offers this well :pwn:),[/QUOTE]
Not true, any good quality Android tablet does it well, too. The screens are just as good as the iPad's and the Freenote and Supernote apps seem good enough with their handwriting setting.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;33317739] And no Gmail app? ughhh.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention no native email client or bbm, and they called a product geared towards the enterprise market the [I][B]play[/B][/I]book; no wonder it fucking bombed.
Purely on the OS front, playbook is definatly in the top few tablets. I have heard reviewers say that tablets like the Ipad 2 would be better if they were running QNX. The multitasking and app switching on QNX is wonderful among other things. It is on the app front that the playbook loses.
[QUOTE=E1025;33317985]Not to mention no native email client or bbm, and they called a product geared towards the enterprise market the [I][B]play[/B][/I]book; no wonder it fucking bombed.[/QUOTE]
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[b]playbook[/b] [ˈpleɪˌbʊk]
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1. (Team Sports / American Football) a book containing a range of possible set plays
[b]2. a notional range of possible tactics in any sphere of activity[/b]
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In business management, the term playbook is often used informally and abstractly as a way of indicating how a company handles a certain activity such as a merger. For example, a business manager may say that a certain strategy used was straight from the company's playbook, meaning that this is the way the firm traditionally handles that particular kind of situation. Author Brandon Steiner wrote a book that compares business strategy with strategic techniques used in football. His book is The Business Playbook: Leadership Lessons from the World of Sports, published in 2003 by Entrepreneur Media.[/quote]
[url]http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-playbook.htm[/url]
im 17, i use a blackberry, I like bbm, a lot of people i know use blackberries and bbm, so i hopped on the bandwagon. But I didnt pay full price, bought a used curve 9300 for $100 and unlocked it for $9 :)
I'd buy a $99 but I'm not going to for $199.
beats buy two get one free, but still wouldn't buy one
I still use my 9650. I text more than anything else with it and you can't beat the BB keyboard for that. Apps and web surfing on a 4" screen don't really interest me so I haven't made the jump to Apple or Android yet.
Playbook doesn't interest me since 7" is still too small.
/that's what she said
I like their phones but nothing more. (except the torch, pile of junk imo)
[QUOTE=bull3tmagn3t;33318536]im 17, i use a blackberry, I like bbm, a lot of people i know use blackberries and bbm, so i hopped on the bandwagon. But I didnt pay full price, bought a used curve 9300 for $100 and unlocked it for $9 :)[/QUOTE]
Heaps of criminal gangs use BBM with blackberries bought in Mexico so they're untappable and untraceable
They were untappable at least at the time when court cases were brought against them by the police, not sure what happened since
I'm happy with my $149 32gb HP TouchPad running CyanogenMod 7.1
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