The Blackberry Playbook may be a tablet for ‘professional’ users, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to play hard too. There’s been an influx of top notch games recently which has left users wanting more. “It’s got the power, now bring on the games”, remarked Thomas in the office this morning. He, like other Blackberry...
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The professional grade tablet, the Blackberry Playbook has officially gone on sale across the UK after an initial 24 hour exclusive deal ended at the Carphone Warehouse. The mobile phone retailer announced the deal last week and began selling the tablet in five of their stores yesterday. Today the Playbook went on sale in a range of stores including Best Buy, Currys/Pc...
The official release date for the Blackberry Playbook is 16th June 2011, however keen buyers can snap one up a day earlier in the UK from the Carphone Warehouse. The mobile phone retailer has announced that they have an exclusive deal that has allowed them to set the release date as June 15th 2011. But you can’t pick it up from any Carphone Warehouse store, only five...
Last week Otterbox unveiled a brand new case for the iPad 2, the Defender series has been extended this week to include a brand new heavy duty case for the Blackberry Playbook. Like the other Defender cases this one comes complete with several layers of protection including a polycarbonate shell that fits snuggly around the Playbook, a silicone skin keeps out dirt, moisture...
Insight UK, PC World, Dixons, Carphone warehouse, Best Buy and curry’s have all started rolling out pre-orders for the Blackberry Playbook tablet PC. It will cost £399.99 when it launches on June 16th, a release date that many feel is long overdue. RIM are touting the Blackberry Playbook as the “world’s first professional-grade tablet”. Which they feel sets it...
The great thing about tablets is that they don’t come with a cumbersome keyboard, well unless you have a Zaggmate for your iPad, or an Asus Transformer or one of these new keyboards produced by RIM for their Blackberry Playbook. The new keyboard will connect to the Playbook via Bluetooth and have the same footprint as the tablet. At this stage it doesn’t come with...
Today seems to be a frenzy of activity as we have release date information from many of the major tablet manufacturers; the latest comes by way of Phones 4 U who has placed a new landing page on their website for the Blackberry Playbook. The mobile phone retailer has set up the page for prospective customers to register their interest in the device stating ‘when the...
What’s the best way to stop your rivals from beating you in the market? When it comes to gadgets then buying all the available parts is a pretty good approach. The BlackBerry PlayBook launch looks like being set back a month. Why? Because those chaps at Apple have been stashing away all the blooming touchscreens, that’s why. It seems that the iPad manufacturers have...
This week has been a real eye opener for the big players in tech, with a distinct change from being very much independent to a ‘if you can’t beat them, join them mentality. First Nokia partnered up with Microsoft and now it seems RIM have done the same thing with Google. RIM, who are the parent company behind the Blackberry Playbook is said to be developing their...
RIM entered the tablet market with the sole aim of hitting it big, their Blackberry Playbook will go head to head with the Apple iPad and Motorola Xoom in March. They are obviously pretty confident that their tablet will be popular revealing that 1 million units will be shipped in the first month alone. The one million unit estimate trumps the Motorola Xoom which is...