BlackBerry PlayBook to arrive before Q1 ends?

By George Wong on 03/04/2011, filed in Home > Tablets

Earlier this week we had “confirmation” about the BlackBerry PlayBook’s April 10 release date. It looks like the BGR exclusive info has been refuted by RIM themselves – but at least this time, it’s not bad news. RIM has confirmed that the PlayBook will be arriving by the end of Q1 for the US, earlier than the rumored April 10 date. Since this month is the last month of Q1, we’ve got about 4 weeks until we see the tablet for sale in stores. A smart move by RIM, since the iPad 2 will be released next week, pushing the PlayBook release date earlier than rumored will only encourage people to wait a bit longer for their tablet. But if they don’t deliver on time, a lot of hearts are going to be broken. Will you be buying a PlayBook this year?

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RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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