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RIM brushes off rumors the PlayBook is dead

article published on 30 September, 2011

RIM has no intention of giving up on the tablet market according to an email from a company spokeswoman. The PlayBook initially sold well after its release in April. More recently lagging sales have led to RIM rethinking plans for a 4G model and drastically reduced prices. In an email to Reuters, RIM's Marisa Conway called rumors the PlayBook will be discontinued, "pure fiction." She ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		30. September 2011 @ 18:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They are not even trying on the thing...STILL no 4G version, still won't tether to anything except a crummy blackberry phone, still can't make phone calls, and about to be drastically overpriced as soon as the Amazon tablet comes out. They haven't given it a sliver of a chance.
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biglo30
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_ 		2. October 2011 @ 10:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What else should we expect from rim? They don't seem to know what they are doing at the moment. Releasing all kind of phones and mobile OS's that leave newly released phones obsolete with the space of a week because they can't be upgrade to QNX. What do you want to use BBOS7 or QNX make up your mind BB. Can the playbook even run android apps natively like they promised it would from launch? I personally haven't used the device as yet but I heard from a friend of mind who is quite creditable that it is pretty laggy in the performance so I don't know.
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