Tablet BlackBerry PlayBook will be priced at iPad
The junior model tablet BlackBerry PlayBook will be sold for less than $ 500. This was stated by one of the leaders of RIM, Jim Balsilli (Jim Balsillie), passes Bloomberg.
Thus, the device is a Canadian company would be able to compete with the tablet Apple iPad, low-end model which is sold in the U.S. costs $ 499.
Balsilli said that sales of tablet PlayBook in North America will begin in the first quarter of 2011. In this case, the exact date of start of sales is not called. Clarifies that since the second quarter PlayBook will be sold outside the U.S. and Canada.
RIM formally introduced its own tablet in September 2010. PlayBook will be equipped with seven-inch touch screen with 1024 by 600 pixels and will support the technology Flash.
Total Canadian company will produce three models of the tablet, to distinguish between different internal memory. So, PlayBook will be equipped with 16, 32 and 64 gigabytes of memory, as iPad. In this first generation of Tablet RIM will not have a built-in modules of cellular communication.
