We're not sure why the
Wall Street Journal just posted up a piece talking about
BlackBerry OS 6.0 and the
Bold 9800 QWERTY slider as though we haven't been running
leaked pictures and
videos of them for
months now, but whatever -- the story also apparently confirms RIM's
Foleo-like tablet plans and says the device could be out by the end of the year. Sounds like RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis decided the tablet market is a little clearer than he's
been letting on. As we've heard in the past, the tablet will tether to your phone for connectivity instead of sporting its own 3G connection, which is interesting, given that RIM is notoriously proud of how little bandwidth its phones use, and we're guessing a full-screen tablet experience might use just a little more data than the average Pearl. Plus, it would be pretty wild if RIM ended up validating a Palm product idea so seemingly doomed that the company
killed it dead just four months after
it was announced in 2007 -- we're not saying the times haven't changed dramatically, but we'd note the
Celio RedFly has thus far failed to blow up the universe. We'll see -- the
WSJ also says the tablet is in the "early stages of development," so anything can change.
posted June 14th 2010 8:20PM
The amount of live births at supermarkets is at a rise and the consumer suffers, i am tired of seeing mothers dumping forgotten children in the meat isle and RIM must do something about this right now
Darn I thought they should have changed the tablet in the posters to that of a modern unit. That would make it funny....
Slogan" If Moses had these, his people would not be praying to the golden calf."
LOL... what we want is a text based OS on a tablet... MAKE IT SO
RIM and Tablet..huh...interesting...JUST interesting!
RIM bought QNX just a little while ago, so the tablet might not run BlackBerry OS.
well, they sure as heck better be in the midst of developing a stunning browser experience because god knows I hate blackberry web browsing!
I bet you $1 million this looks like a BIG Blackberry.
I use my AT&T Bold 9000 (yes I know it's outdated) and Tetherberry with my HP netbook when I need to do personal stuff at work. Although, I have been using them less and less since I can now do most of what I need on my Sony Xperia X10a. But, if RIM made a tablet that had some way to securely attach the Blackberry phone to it and carry the two around I would at least consider it. It would have to have a desktop browser, desktop email client, desktop video capabilities and easily make it through my 11-12 hour day including commute and work. The price would have to be $300 or less and tie into my unlimited Blackberry data plan for little, or, no extra cost. If RIM can deliver this I would probably buy it.
Wait. What? A Blackberry Tablet? That was surprising.
@HikaKao
Yeah, too bad we heard Nilay joking about it a few weeks back on the podcast... and apparently the RIM Ceo was tuning it!
:S!?!?!?
Wow, this is going to fail like nobody's business.
Like I said before the iphone was early,people liked it and the competition was slow to react ,but the tablet is and it will be a very crowded field by years end ,apple will not have clear sailing for the 3years they had with the iphone ...and they will slip back to their postion as just another technology company...I personally have seen some of the coming competition in not only the tablet arena but also in the phone area ,by this time next year there will be at 15 phones that will meet and or beat the iphone in almost every category possible....enjoy apple it was nice while it lasted ....and personally thank you for upping the pace of change...
But why? I mean really. What OS does RIM have thatll work good on a tablet.
Thank god it will tether.
The fact that the iPad won't tether with the iPhone is really incredible. Every time you buy an Apple product you need to take into account that the purchase price is just the beginning of your expenses.
http://crackberry.com/t-mobile-killing-service-unlocked-storm-devices?
All these tablet announcements and speculations reminds me of gold rush. Apple leads the way followed by hounding android tablets and now BB tablet.
It's shame that I can't get my hands on great android tablet right now. All they do is announcing stuff that might never be released.
As proud long time BB owner, I can say i am still in love with my BB. While the push is still the best, I have been lusting after the younger sexier smarter smart phones lately. I have always remained faithful but when i wake up in the morning to this boring but decent phone, i have found that the interface and web browser just can't keep up with me anymore, i can't help but wonder why stay with it. Its not the phone, its me. They say once you go black you never go back, but i just found sexy little white iphone and i'm hooking up with it tomorrow.
LOOOOL!!!! u cant make this shit up!! This is an SNL skit waiting to happen.
"We're not sure why the Wall Street Journal just..."
Because they are WSJ and you guys are bloggers. They have real editors, you guys have bloggers. They have real fact checking. You have bloggers. When a news story is written, it's done so without bias because...you guessed it! because they're not bloggers. They are real writers, you are bloggers.
My gosh, I just re-read that article. Amazing. So well written, articulate, unbiased. Filled with facts. WOW. That's what tech news should look like. I cringe at the idea of blogs like this having any role in the news...it's already become too mainstream. Hopefully people wise up.
Geez, the palm folio is sure rolling in its grave with all these tether tablets and syncing. Remember everyone laughing at it not so long ago?
Especially if the iPad syncs with the iphone someday...
I'm sure it's coming because these people said
I don't know where RIM is going with this one, but it seems like shots fired in the dark. You don't just wake up one minute and go "me too". I would like to say webOS has a chance, but HP seems to be wondering around in circles. It looks like ipad will be ahead of the game for now.
WOW !
Just wanted to say that your picture to go with this post is simply genius. Nicely played, Nilay.
Remember when Steve Ballmer presented the HP Slate running Windows 7 and that was just days ahead of the iPad annoucement. It turned out that HP will be putting Web OS instead. And Ballmer's precipitation was a bad move.
engadget story moses graphic, LMGDAO!!! funny
I'm curious as to how RIM would do this. The OS options for would-be tablet makers are Windows 7 and Android. Neither of which are really ready for prime time yet for an iPad-like device, but perhaps could be ready by the end of the year.
Regardless, RIM can't really go with either of those without contributing to the marginalization of it's own service and system for phones...a much larger business (at the very least for the near term).
Does RIM really think it can develop a fleshed out OS and ecosystem for a tablet that would compete with the iPad (for a closed and polished system), Android (for an open and less polished system) or Windows 7 (a PC in tablet form)?
I can understand people saying that RIM must evolve, grow into new markets, etc..., But at what point do you say that RIM just isn't capable of pulling this off?
Is there really a market for a tablet that does one thing (email) but does it really well?...so much more so than the iPad?
This is such crazy talk. Just 2 months ago, the tech snobs were saying that the iPad would fail to catch on with anyone but idiot Apple fans with too much money and no real need for a computer. Now somehow RIM is supposed to develop a viable iPad knock-off?
How long has it been since the iPhone came out and RIM has yet to even come close to having a viable model in the touch-screen space?
The Blackberry is running on fumes. RIM needs a modern mobile OS and supporting ecosystem. Once it has that, it can build the next generation of phones and migrate people over, as well as tablets and whatever other next thing to copy Apple they want to.
Yay, text-based OS in a 10 inch tablet! Moar text to put in that damn screen.
Just to think here in a few months tablet users could enjoy the same great web experience that they have had for years on the blackberry. I'm sure everyone that everyone that can be grouped into that group will be pleased given that AT&T stated that they typically only use 54 MB a month any way. How hard could it be to please someone that will never actually use the device even after paying for it.