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RBC: RIM launching tablet in Q1 2011

By on September 26, 2010 at 9:43am in BlackBerry (RIM), Mobile News


If Waterloo-based RIM announces a Tablet device this week at their developer conference in San Francisco, RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky says that the “Launch is expected [in the first quarter of calendar 2011]… missing the busy holiday season technology push. The reason RIM announcing the product this week is to keep the interest of developers and potential buyers. In addition, Abramsky stated that a Wi-Fi-only version of the tablet (potentially called “BlackPad” or “SurfBook”) will be sold at Best Buy and at 3G model is something the carriers will be releasing.

Last week another analyst weighed in and said that RIM was building 2.5 million tablet device for Q4 and skipping past the consumer market towards the enterprise market.

What do you think – are you interested in this potential homegrown Canadian tablet?

Source: WSJ

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Discussion

13 comments for “RBC: RIM launching tablet in Q1 2011”

  1. Too many tablets are being pushed to 2011 which just leaves the gap even more wider for the iPad to fill. PLUS, by January next year, Apple will be announcing the iPad 2nd Gen and all these other companies will have old spec devices.

    Also, I’m concerned about RIM and also Samsung that have stated that their 3G tablets will be sold by the carriers. Excuse me but, WTF? Why are the carriers selling it? Is your tablet so high priced that it needs carrier subsidies to be sold? Plus, who the hell wants a LOCKED tablet?? The hell with that. To me, these guys are digging their own graves. I don’t give Apple much praise but for some reason, with something simple as the tablet, no one seems to be able to follow the simple format of distribution as they’ve done.

    Have a wifi and a wifi+3G version, all unlocked, customer chooses their carrier if they want 3G. Simple.

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    Posted by Carmine | September 26, 2010, 10:03 am
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  2. If RIM misses the Holiday shopping season, it’ll be beyond an epic fail.

    I highly doubt they’d be dumb enough to promote this device now, only to say “save your shopping money. We’re coming out after Christmas”. VERY unlikely. It’s Q4, or else Apple and Samsung are going to blow out of stock, and RIM will be sitting around holding itself with a lot of inventory NOT being bought.

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    Posted by Rene | September 26, 2010, 10:04 am
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  3. I’m not sold on the BlackPad. What does it do that my BlackBerry doesn’t? What niche does it fill?

    Is it just a bigger screen? Some tweaked apps to take advantage of the larger real estate? An eBook reader? Well, that’s not enough.

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    Posted by Craig | September 26, 2010, 10:25 am
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    • you can say exactly the same thing about an iPad.

      I don’t really see the point of tablets period

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      Posted by Kieran | September 26, 2010, 1:44 pm

  4. This still fits under the too-little-too-late. IPad is too far ahead, and competitors are not far behind (android). Expect further erosion in margins over time for RIM.

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    Posted by chrispycrunch | September 26, 2010, 10:33 am
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  5. Yes, yes, yes. This device sounds like a winner to me!

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    Posted by David | September 26, 2010, 10:41 am
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  6. I predict this will so be DOA

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    Posted by Mac | September 26, 2010, 12:29 pm
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  7. @Carmine – totally agree – a locked tablet is a crippled tablet, and a crippled tablet isn’t what a significant segment of us want.

    Semi-off topic: one can only hope that the likely near hopeless bill C-560 actually goes somewhere. See http://openparliament.ca/bills/2301/. And contact your MP about it if you dislike buying crippled products from the wireless carriers.

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    Posted by Jim R | September 26, 2010, 2:05 pm
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  8. Oh yes! Bbm, plain text email and mobile webpages on this device will be awesome! (not)

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    Posted by User | September 26, 2010, 2:53 pm
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  9. File under Also-ran.

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    Posted by Toysandme | September 26, 2010, 3:03 pm
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  10. Too many tablets! At least the Android and iOS ones have enough applications available to work as pseudo-computers, .RIM has barely any applications for their devices. This is going to flop hard. >.<

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    Posted by Ben G | September 26, 2010, 3:45 pm
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  11. The other aspect is that if the tablets are locked, you know the providers will rape us with the data plans. (regardless of the company, big 3 or old). I find it retarded that if I don’t have the blackberry service book for internet I cannot use my phone with wifi without some manual intervention. This kinda mentality has to stop.

    I really wish RIM focused on making a larger jump with hardware on their phones than this thing!

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    Posted by Regulator | September 26, 2010, 6:11 pm
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  12. JVM Error 523

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    Posted by gRIM | September 27, 2010, 2:24 am
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