DaMan
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 17, 2003
- Location
- South of Nowhere
<center><a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/22/rim-trims-300-from-blackberry-playbook-prices"><img class="size-full wp-image-109671 aligncenter" title="blackberry-playbook456" src="http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/blackberry-playbook456.jpeg" alt="" width="652" height="455" /></a></center>
Research In Motion’s debut tablet hasn’t bowled people over like the company had hoped, and now it is pushing a huge sale in hopes of drumming up interest during the holiday shopping season. For a limited time through participating retailers, RIM is offering its BlackBerry PlayBook slate for $300 below MSRP, representing savings of up to 60%. Sale pricing comes in at $199.99 for the 16GB model, $299 for the 32GB version and $399 for the 64GB model, and participating retailers include Best Buy, Walmart RadioShack and more.<span id="more-113629"></span>
After selling 500,000 PlayBooks into channels during the tablet’s first quarter of availability, <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/15/rim-reports-q2-earnings-revenue-and-eps-both-miss/">RIM sold just 200,000 units</a> to distributors last quarter. Analyst checks indicate that <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/21/blackberry-7-sales-stall-playbook-sell-through-remains-sluggish/">sell-through is stalling as well</a>, so a huge sale like this could be a last hurrah for the tablet. Users <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/07/the-blackberry-playbook-is-my-favorite-tablet/">might enjoy the PlayBook</a> if they give it a test drive, but a lack of apps, no PIM or email support and a lack of compelling features compared to the competition have kept the ball in Apple and Google’s court. Now, with a $199 Kindle Fire and $249 Nook Tablet having been released, the PlayBook’s odds drop even lower.
<a href="http://us.blackberry.com/where-to-buy/playbook.jsp?CPID=E20B028">Read</a>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~4/BL5BQxN2xnM" height="1" width="1"/>
Via BRG - Boy Genius Report
Research In Motion’s debut tablet hasn’t bowled people over like the company had hoped, and now it is pushing a huge sale in hopes of drumming up interest during the holiday shopping season. For a limited time through participating retailers, RIM is offering its BlackBerry PlayBook slate for $300 below MSRP, representing savings of up to 60%. Sale pricing comes in at $199.99 for the 16GB model, $299 for the 32GB version and $399 for the 64GB model, and participating retailers include Best Buy, Walmart RadioShack and more.<span id="more-113629"></span>
After selling 500,000 PlayBooks into channels during the tablet’s first quarter of availability, <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/15/rim-reports-q2-earnings-revenue-and-eps-both-miss/">RIM sold just 200,000 units</a> to distributors last quarter. Analyst checks indicate that <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/21/blackberry-7-sales-stall-playbook-sell-through-remains-sluggish/">sell-through is stalling as well</a>, so a huge sale like this could be a last hurrah for the tablet. Users <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/07/the-blackberry-playbook-is-my-favorite-tablet/">might enjoy the PlayBook</a> if they give it a test drive, but a lack of apps, no PIM or email support and a lack of compelling features compared to the competition have kept the ball in Apple and Google’s court. Now, with a $199 Kindle Fire and $249 Nook Tablet having been released, the PlayBook’s odds drop even lower.
<a href="http://us.blackberry.com/where-to-buy/playbook.jsp?CPID=E20B028">Read</a>
<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~4/BL5BQxN2xnM" height="1" width="1"/>
Via BRG - Boy Genius Report
