BlackBerry Playbook Sales report and software update

Today We have a lot to report about the BlackBerry Playbook. RIM has, after disappointing sales results in the United States and Canada, the sales projections downwards. In addition, a software update rolled out. Finally, we get finally answer of RIM why there is no email application developed for the Playbook. The answer to this question, you can see after the break.

Again a new software update for the BlackBerry Playbook. This time rolled out version 1.0.6. Besides the usual bug fixes in this update, Adobe’s Flash and AIR programs updated. Adobe Flash 10.1 is installed with this update as well as AIR 2.7.

If you’re a little telecom news follows you will not notice that the bad comes with RIM, the company behind BlackBerry. The Canadian company gets behind the competition with the BlackBerry smartphones. But also the BlackBerry Playbook runs not as good as we had thought. Or hoped?

In the first three months is the Playbook sold some 500,000 times. RIM was expecting to sell 2.5 million copies. Also in the second quarter was expected in the first instance, on 2.5 million Playbooks that over the counter should go. This expectation is now adjusted to 800,000 to 900,000 units. This is more than in the first quarter after the start of the sale. This increase is mainly achieved because the Playbook in ever more countries is introduced. More information about buying a Playbook you’ll find below.

A common complaint about the Playbook is missing the familiar BlackBerry e-mail client on the tablet. This aspect is also reflected in the BlackBerry Playbook review that we have created a few weeks ago. RIM now comes with an explanation for this lack.

“The Blackberry email system is the BES — which is the source/focus of all the famous BB security. The BES email server has the concept of one user = one device (or they call it PIN). “

This allows for …

“significant work to make the BES support multiple devices.”

RIM indicates hard at work to the email client to be able to launch this summer. This will probably happen simultaneously with the introduction of a 3 g model of the Playbook.

It will also in the summer the BlackBerry Messenger application (also called Ping) available for the Playbook. Another important feature is the Android app player, with which you can run Android applications on your BlackBerry tablet.

Also in the Netherlands is Playbook currently on sale. Now you can buy this BlackBerry tablet at BelCompany. About one or two weeks can also in other well-known sales channels such as at Amazon and at PDAshop.

In addition, you can buy the Playbook in combination with a smartphone and a telephone subscription. Typhone and Castle Telecom have good deals for these combinations.

More information, specifications, pictures and some videos of this tablet you can find on the page of the BlackBerry Playbook. Or view the BlackBerry Tablet guide Playbook review.

Sources: Business Insider & HotHardware