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MWC: RIM adds 4G options to Playbook tablets
CANADIAN SMARTPHONE MAKER for the enterprise Research in Motion (RIM) has enhanced its as yet unreleased range of tablet devices with the early announcement of two upcoming 4G versions.
RIM, like everyone else in the mobile phone business, is in attendance at Spain's Mobile World Congress and there it said that it will release two more Playbook models, one that will support LTE and the other HSPA+, in the latter half of this year.
These will compliment the other two versions, which will offer WiFi, and WiFi and Wimax, respectively.
"The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is already being widely recognised for its superior performance, rich web experience, enterprise readiness and deep support for web standards and open development tools," said Mike Lazaridis, president and Co-CEO of RIM.
"We are now building on the BlackBerry PlayBook's many advantages with support for additional 4G networks that will allow enhanced business opportunities for carriers and developers and unparalleled mobile experiences for users."
Although 4G networks are being built out in the US they are not currently available in the UK, however it is likely that they will hit these shores, perhaps as early as next year.
By that time RIM's Playbooks might not look particularly enticing, but who knows? The firm boasted that they will combine enterprise reliability with some power processing and consumer user appeal.
So maybe anyone might eventually invest in RIM's 4G Playbooks who hasn't bought a tablet by this Summer when the latter two models will be released and then still hasn't bought one by early next year, when 4G becomes a local reality.
The INQUIRER asked RIM's PR people if there was any more information about release dates, apart from early this year and then later this year, but the answer was no. µ
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The hollow words of the soul-less marketing lackeys are indeed laughable - I agree with Lorrie.
What gets me the most though is that Blackberry - the smartphone maker with the most prolific business credentials - has chosen to name their serious business device the 'playbook'. Just ridiculous. (Unless they're trying to induce Freudian slips to playboy.)
Albeit, Blackberry is a pretty silly name too. RIM is a serious progressive corporate name (when you expand the acronym).
Hey Davitt,
I too abhor the term cell phone, much preferring the civilised term mobile phone.
But, upon reflection, I have to quietly admit that the term cellular telephone has merit. The network of transmitter/receiver towers for mobile phones are arranged in an approximate hexagonal grid to form "cells" like in a honeycomb - hence "cell phone". (If this is wrong information, I blame my sister the electronics engineer.)
Now coming back to mobile phone - I like the term, but ... well, I put my mobile down on a bench (at home, not at a busy shopping centre) and prodded it a little. And ... well, it didn't really move or anything - it's not really mobile at all, you have to pick it up and carry it for God's sake!
I'm filing a patent for 'self-propelled mobile phone'.
Redguards,
-Me
What is a cell phone, anyway?
Isn't there anything better to write about then cell phones? For christ's sake! With all the technology out there you would think the inq. could come up with better tech news!!!
"The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is already being widely recognised for its superior performance, rich web experience, enterprise readiness and deep support for web standards and open development tools."
based on vapourware :-))
What a joke.