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RIM to Discontinue 16GB Playbook

April 10, 2023 By 901am

Research in Motion doesn’t seem like its getting any kind of break in such a long time. The troubled company, makers of the once enterprise level smartphone of choice BlackBerry, has announced that it will stop making the 16GB BlackBerry Playbook, the company’s entry into the tablet market.

RIM has clarified it will not abandon the tablet market and that it continues to be committed to the 32GB and 64GB models of the BlackBerry Playbook, which will still be available from RIM’s distributors and retailers worldwide. [Read more…]

Originally posted on June 11, 2012 @ 1:07 pm

Filed Under: BlackBerry, rim, Tablets, Uncategorized Tagged With: BlackBerry, BlackBerry Playbook, Research in Motion, rim, Tablets

Underperforming Playbook costing RIM Half a Billion Dollars

April 7, 2023 By 901am

The potential goldmine that is the tablet market is luring a lot of companies into trying out their luck with this new market niche and hoping that they can become as successful as Apple, the company that recreated this whole sector. Research in Motion (RIM) was one of the companies that thought that it can replicate its early success with its BlackBerry brand with a tablet and released the BlackBerry Playbook April of this year. Unfortunately, just like many of the other companies that dipped their toes into the tablet pool, RIM is finding out the hard way that success in the tablet market can be quite elusive. [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 5, 2011 @ 6:24 pm

Filed Under: BlackBerry Tagged With: BlackBerry Playbook, Playbook, rim, Tablets

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