Best Buy BlackBerry PlayBook Price Drops at Future Shop, Best Buy, The Source and Sears BlackBerry PlayBook Discounts @ FS, BB, The Source
get this dealThe big BlackBerry Playbook price drop first noticed at Walmart is also available at other big retailers! Future Shop, Best Buy, The Source, and Sears have all dropped the prices on the BlackBerry PlayBook this week. This is a hot deal, so don't be surprised if stock moves pretty quickly! The full deal thread can be found here.
The Source (online only)- BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet 16GB - $199.99
- BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet 32GB - $299.99
- BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet 64GB - $399.99
- BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet 16GB - $199.99
- BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet 32GB - $299.99
- BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet 64GB - $399.99
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View allHahahahahahaha. I get it now, its a kitten. With its' paw on its forhead, almost like a human would do with their palm. They should make a website based on these sorts of pictures, and come up with this idea 4 or 5 years ago. It would be funny to post these pictures all the time.
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I have the Playbook, Touchpad with WebOS and Touchpad with CM7/9. The Playbook is the best as a media player which plays almost all videos downloaded from youtube and cameras. WebOS does not play most file types, and the CM7/9 is pretty picky on codecs used as well.
Ya, vol + vol- play/pause AND mute.
I am tempted to get that stupid alibaba $37 tablet to tide me over until RIM stops FAQing around and gives out the 3G Playbook.. I returned my wifi model because I wanted the 3G one, dont even know if they are serious about it now.
Thank you RIM for not buying into the whole Apple-tamagotchya ergo design fail. No wonder they call themselves Pods. Proof again sense is not common.
Proof again Jobs is a marketing genius.
Same experience here. I use LAN File Explorer and can play direct from my media PC, or I dump them on when I'm on the go.
The only video files I can not play is WMV, other then that no issues like you.
I have an android 4.0 hp touch pad and the playbook and i prefer the playbook over the touchpad. The 2.0 update made calendars and email absolutely perfect on the playbook, infact I don't think any other tablet even comes close to the playbook in that segment. What I don't like about the playbook is mainly that it has no netflix app, other than that no issues so far. I dl'd a season of heroes and just dumped it onto my playbook and it worked without any issues. There are probably some formats that the playbook doesn't recognize but in all i'd say it supports the most popular formats like mkv and avi.
I think this is the worst media player for the road/plane, if you want to just throw media files in, that's just my opinion. If you have the time to convert, it's a great tablet.
this tablet has not hit $99 yet?
and where is the 3G LTE whatever Playbook? Apple will have iPad 4 out before Rim gets 1 updated tablet to market,
Yeah, I've been looking on those...unless i missed a thread here or there, just nothing for cheap. I more just want a cheap little media player for the road/plane with some apps so I wasn't really authorized with the household budget to go for more than a couple hundred. Probably actually not authorized for this either, but its small enough to hide from my fiance. (Thats what she said).
Anyways, sorry for breaking the bump code - thought there may be others looking for cheap over quality. I will refrain from it in the future : )
Nothing recent in the search other than this thread, brah. Didn't know they had RFD in Hawaii. Thanked for your comment though.
Nice bump brah
Check out handbrake if anyone wants to convert media files, great software.
I seem to recall that my BlackBerry 850 had this signature way back in 1999, before even the first iPOD was released (2001): "-Sent wirelessly from my Blackberry", or something along those lines. This was before there was a BIS and BlackBerry Desktop Redirector was the software you actually used to keep your Outlook (while your computer was running) synchronized with your BlackBerry.
Wow, that was a flashback.
Being that the 850 (click for picture) was released approximately 2 years before even an iPod was around, I'd say that RIM was using that first.
Think about that device makes me think back to how bad marketing has always been at that company, calling the 850 a "two way pager" may have been the worst thing that it could have ever been called. The "pager" connotation really didn't help it sell, as it was nothing like the pagers of the day. Calling it ANYTHING else would have helped them sell more units...
RIM launched BIS service well before Apple launched the iPhone.
**EDIT:
Closest fact I could find was a PDF from 3 UK where the date for the BIS v2.0 manual is 27/05/2006. iPhone launched June 2007.
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Oh I did not know that. So which one starts first: apple or BB?
You do know that BlackBerry started the whole "sent from my BlackBerry device" when BIS was introduced. It is the default signature when you setup your email account for BIS.
For $200 I think it's worh it, same price as the Kindle Fire but more solidly built and less restrictive OS.
Can we come up with something special and uniquely for "blackberry"
May be something like "originated from my PB" ?
web shows last weeks prices again...
16 - $199
32 - $249
64 - $399
clever..... pms and coupons drive sales up?
...send from my pb through free mcd wifi during a $1.78 (tx in, med coffee for refills) breakfast
I had 2.0 Beta on mine and can confirm the Beta has mkv support. As for official release, if the Beta has it and working, 95% sure the official release will have it.
From The Playbook Thread
these things fluctuate in price like financial markets
Thank you very much for looking into it for me and replying. Much appreciated.
http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_s ... +playbook#
Install the 2.0 Beta or wait for official 2.0 as that has mkv support.
What century are we in now ?
IMAP access ?
EDIT:
Some more interesting things for you to read, seems that RIM spend all the efforts for something no one use.
http://us.blackberry.com/support/preins ... domino.jsp
couple weeks back they had the $99 pb sale for employees. got a buddy of mine to pick one up for me.
I watched world juniors on tsn.ca via the pb. Just tested watch.ctv.ca for you and it works as well.
Dave
- sent from my pb
Lotus Notes has been performing push to multiple device secure email synchronization for 100 years? Man.. they must have invented the internet, tablets, smart phones, cell phone, wireless transmission, digital data streaming, touch screens... they must be the biggest company in the entire universe! How come nobody uses their product?
I think you may be missing the entire point of RIM's device line-up. Keeping your data secure and getting your email to you quickly and efficiently. All I'm saying is that it isn't the same beast as IMAP access to your local email box.
Seriously!