Sentences with phrase «rim sold the tablet»

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On December 28 last year, RIM announced to cut the price of its playbook Tablet by almost of half, and the reportedly, over 12,000 Tablets were sold within four - days.

Given early indications that the Android - based Motorola Xoom and Galaxy Tab are not selling well, that RIM has shipped — not sold — a mere 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks, and that HP's webOS TouchPad tablet has garnered only lukewarm reviews, those numbers even strike us as a little ambitious.

The company managed to sell 12,000 units of the PlayBook during the last four days, which not only erased all stock of the tablet that has been lying idle with retailers but has also prompted RIM to bring in more to ensure there are enough to keep up with the expected demand.

Sales of the PlayBook have been languishing until recently, following RIM's massive price cuts that saw the tablet being sold for an affordable $ 199.

RIM is still soldering on with the PlayBook tablet device while HP has already thrown in the towel.

RIM is also preparing to launch the BlackBerry PlayBook as its first tablet offering this year, which could sell as many as 6 million units during its first year of availability.

At $ 299, RIM is hoping to sell off the tablets it is having the most trouble selling; the 64 GB and 32 GB models.

It might be difficult for RIM to sell consumers its model if they are able to compare the RIM tablet to an iPad sitting on another shelf.

It really seems with this announcement RIM is going to do away with one of the largest selling points of its tablet and stick it to savvy owners to have more flexibility.

While this will surely be of a lot of use to those who are heavily addicted to their BlackBerry's, RIM may have a hard time selling the device to those who'd like to have a tablet that functions on its own.

It also knocked a whopping 58 percent off a RIM BlackBerry PlayBook 32 GB ($ 249), but it hasn't sold out yet today — which I guess says a lot more about the tablet than it does about eBay.

RIM says the PlayBook will be able to run Android 2.x apps (but significantly, not apps for Android 3.0, the tablet version of Google's OS), and only those Android apps that are sold via its AppWorld store; but the Android Player emulator that will enable this feat, along with the emulator that will run BlackBerry phone apps, won't be available until later this summer.

RIM had initially said it would launch the new BlackBerry 10 phones, which will use the same operating system as the company's poor - selling PlayBook tablet, early this year.

N4BB, however, speculates that the real reason for dumping the 16 GB tablet boils down to value for RIM, since «there is barely any profit on every 16 GB PlayBook sold,» especially «given the price cuts putting the PlayBook to its relative production cost.»

RIM reported during its earnings call on Thursday that it only sold 200,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets into channels during its August quarter, after having shipped 500,000 units in the fiscal first quarter.

This follows the recent confirmation by the beleaguered platform and hardware developer that it will be taking steps to write down up to a staggering US$ 1 billion in unsold inventory across its current North American product line, which follows a similar writedown taken late last year for $ 400 million in unsold PlayBook inventory, which culminated in the short - term fire sale to employees and consumers while raising serious concerns regarding RIM's capability to sell the previously noncompetitive tablets.

Dec. 2: RIM says it is writing off much of its inventory of PlayBook tablets after it had to sell them at a deep discount.

RIM did say it shipped 14.1 million smartphones in the quarter, in line with its forecast, but it only sold 150,000 PlayBook tablets into retail sales channels compared to 500,000 units in the first quarter and 200,000 in the second.

Sept. 15, 2011: RIM reports a sharp drop in net income and revenue in the fiscal second quarter and says it has sold far fewer PlayBook tablet computers than it expected.

RIM sold into the channels approximately 150,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the third quarter and sell - through to end customers, based on RIM's internal data, was higher than this amount.

RIM has made little progress with its PlayBook in the tablet computer market, shipping just one device for every 46 iPads that Apple sold in the latest quarter.

RIM did not reveal how many tablets have been sold through to end users.

After selling 500,000 PlayBooks into channels during the tablet's first quarter of availability, RIM sold just 200,000 units to distributors last quarter.

Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced Tuesday that its iPad rival, the PlayBook, would go on sale next month at a price identical to that of the hot - selling Apple tablet computer.

RIM may have sold 45,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets on the QNX slate's first day of availability, according to estimates from analysts Jefferies & Co..

Think about this: people are so interested in tablets right now that Amazon has been able to sell a reused hardware design that previously failed in RIM's hands, just because Amazon understands Apple's success and was able to make an entire end - to - end ecosystem, and price it well below the iPad at $ 199.

This would appear to put further pressure on premium priced tablet vendors Motorola (MMI) and RIM (RIMM), each of whom we expect will only sell somewhere in the 1MM unit range in 2011.

RIM posted word that Best Buy Canada and its sister chain Future Shop had seen the BlackBerry PlayBook become the top - selling tablet at their stores this week.

In fact, RIM recently posted on their Twitter page that the BlackBerry PlayBook was the best selling tablet in Canada last week, both at BestBuy and Future Shop.

Already cut to $ 199, the 16 GB tablet is understood by multiple The Verge contacts to be selling at just $ 99 for RIM staff.

Growing or not, RIM faces its biggest competition in the tablet arena from Apple, whose iPad has sold roughly 1 million units per month since its April 2010 release.

Though the steep discount has led to a sales surge, RIM is now losing a hefty amount on every tablet it sells.

Having tag lined the PlayBook as the First Professional Grade Tablet, I think RIM's aim here was to differentiate from the incumbent iPad by selling a tablet that you're more likely to carry with you everywhere you go (as in a business person carrying it in their inside suit jacket poTablet, I think RIM's aim here was to differentiate from the incumbent iPad by selling a tablet that you're more likely to carry with you everywhere you go (as in a business person carrying it in their inside suit jacket potablet that you're more likely to carry with you everywhere you go (as in a business person carrying it in their inside suit jacket pocket).

Research in Motion (RIM) has been struggling to sell its debut tablet since the device hit shelves in April.

With HP's enterprise sales channels, it could easily sell PalmPads to big businesses and take a chunk out of RIM's PlayBook tablet sales.

This could be an indication that RIM is preparing to launch an updated model soon... but it could also just be an indication that RIM has figured out the best way to sell tablets is to make them really, really cheap.

Of the apps that are selling best, four out of the top 10 on App World are games for the PlayBook tablet, RIM said.

Slower than expected sell - through of Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has prompted investment bank Canaccord Genuity to slash its sales estimates for RIM's first tablet.

The Carphone Warehouse reckons it will be able to sell you one of RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook a day ahead of the tablet's 16 June UK debut.