Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, has finally got to see the fruits of its hard work as its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet outscores the Apple iPad in Best Buy Canada and its sister chain Future Shop. The BlackBerry PlayBook, which has been regarded to as a tablet joke by many, has managed to outsell the market leader last week, although the exact...
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Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Playbook tablet PC has overtaken Apple’s iPad as the most sought after tablet in the market, according to a study conducted by money saving site ILoveCashback.com According to the site’s statistics for the month of July, the BlackBerry Playbook is attracting 22 percent more searches than other leading tablets, including...
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...
Blackberry World in Orlando, Florida is in full flow and new updates and announcements have been occurring all day. One such announcement involves the insanely popular Angry Birds franchise which is set to spread it’s wings and land which much applause on the Blackberry Playbook tablet. RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis has confirmed that the bird firing app will be available...
The 2011 Tablet Wars are well and truly here, what with the iPad 2 press release yesterday and the Motorola Xoom, Blackberry Playbook and HP Touchpad all launching in the very near future. As with many tech release dates these are based on external sources and industry experts ramblings. This page will be updated with news and specs as and when we hear of them. Where...
As soon as Apple launched its iPad a few months back, Steve Jobs lit a very slow burning fuse on what would inevitably become the tablet PC wars. Perhaps other manufacturers looked at the touch screen tablet and believed that consumers would not react to something that offered very few functions over and above the average smartphone but in a slightly larger package and...