Canada: Retailers Cut Price of RIM’s PlayBook Tablet to $199.-

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Canada: Retailers Cut Price of RIM’s PlayBook Tablet to $199.-

Wal-Mart, Staples and Best Buy in Canada are now offering Research in Motion Ltd.’s PlayBook tablets for under $200, down from an original price of $500.

Retailers had already discounted the PlayBook in September, a move echoed by U.S. retailers at the time.

RIM delayed the update of its PlayBook operating system from October to February of next year, which means that it won’t be able to take advantage of the holiday season. Buyers of the current PlayBook will still not be able to access email and other key tools unless they tether their tablet to a BlackBerry phone.

RIM said it sold just 200,000 PlayBooks in the most recent quarter, down from 500,000 the quarter before.

MWC 2011: Motorola XOOM, HP Touchpad, Blackberry Playbook, MeeGo OS. Video

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MWC 2011 :Motorola XOMM, HP Touchpad, Blackberry Playbook, MeeGo OS. BBC UK makes a short walk through to most prominent tablets PCs at Mobile Congress 2011 in Barcelona.


The Motorola XOOM looks a nice live widgets and a better Youtube experience. A device with no buttons around the frame.


You can see a very much improved tab to share feature on the HP TouchPad  when the Pre3 url site loaded very fast compared to before demos.


One thing I noticed on the BB Playbook is now the flip out card swipe. It looks very much almost a full replicate of HP webOS, The difference is the 3G connection between the BB Playbook and the BB Torch smartphone made  on the  email push, field always where BB is specialized.