Carriers quickly followed retailers by heavily discounted RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet this week. SaskTel, TELUS and Bell have discounted this to start off at $199 for the 16GB, but Rogers is still sitting strong by selling the PlayBook for $499. The discounts seem to be working out for RIM, most places are now showing limited inventory. Bell stated on their website that all versions of “this device is temporarily out of stock”, Best Buy and Future Shop show “Sold Out”, and SaskTel lists the PlayBook as “Out of stock online”.
PlayBook OS 2.0 is expected to come out in February 2012, this will bring native email, calendar and contacts… something users have been requesting since its original release. With all this temporarily out of stock happening, very reminiscent of HP’s TouchPad, perhaps the $199 was a correct starting price for the PlayBook?
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