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A leaked end-of-life list out of Sprint that showed-up yesterday told the tale of a carrier trimming-down its tablet offerings. According to the document Sprint is preparing to cut things off with the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook and the HTC EVO View 4G .
The decline of Research in Motion ‘s Blackberry smartphone, reflected in the resignations tonight of co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis , represents the admission of failure — finally — by a leadership regime that had been in place for a decade. More significantly, it represents the official triumph of software over hardware.
When it comes to tablets and operating systems we’d like to see hacked open for greater access, the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook and its custom PlayBook OS aren’t exactly at the top of the list of must-haves – but regardless of this, it has in fact happened. WIth a tool that’s sure to capture both your heart and your giggles, one that’s called DingleBerry, of all things, a team of three developers have found their way to true device freedom inside this recently deeply discounted tablet.
Online commerce giant eBay this morning ran a Cyber Monday deal for a white Apple iPad 2 WiFi 16GB, selling the popular tablet for $449 or exactly $50 off the MSRP (+ free shipping). Turns out a lot of people figured that was a great deal.
Contrary to numerous reports, the WDS report published yesterday did not say that Android-based smartphones were more susceptible to hardware failures or problems. In fact, the report explicitly states, “Android devices are no easier, nor more difficult, to troubleshoot than a comparative product from an alternate OS vendor.” What the report states is that Android smartphones (excluding tablets), by virtue of the multiplicity of versions actively in the market, incur more carrier costs with respect to time spent conducting customer support, coupled with the wide array of brands both large and small that carriers find themselves supporting.
Never fear, Blackberry Tag isn’t another fail-laced tablet or other device coming from RIM. Tag is a new tech that users of Blackberry smartphones will be able to use to trade and share data with other Blackberry users.
When a device hits the FCC here in the USA, we know that it’s getting MUCH more possible that the hardware will be dropping into stores sooner than later – that’s what’s going on with Toshiba’s next Android tablet. This tablet is the next-generation device after the Toshiba Thrive, a thicker Android tablet that we reviewed some months ago – this newest tablet from big T promises ports galore like its predecessor along with a unique dip around the entire edge of the casing.
RIM’s killer BlackBerry feature has always been BBM . So, you’ll have to excuse us if we give some side-eye to these leaked shots of the private messaging service two-timing its Canadian maker .