BLACKBERRY PLAYBOOK NOW AVAILABLE FOR $300 IN CANADA

The BlackBerry PlayBook is now available in Canada for just $299.99. Will this price drop revive interest in the tablet? Well, that needs to be seen. In Canada both Best Buy and Future Shop are still selling the 16GB version of the tablet for $399.99. But now they also offer a $100 discount or a $100 gift card with the tablet. Note that to see the new prices you will have to add the tablet to your shopping cart first. The 32GB model now runs $399.99. The 64GB model will set you back $499.99.


The BlackBerry PlayBook is the company’s first foray into the tablet space. It is a 7 inch device running the BlackBerry Tablet OS. The tablet has a speedy 1GHz dual core processor and a 1024 x 600 pixels capacitive touchscreen display. It is decent tablet with excellent multitasking capabilities. Unfortunately, there aren’t many third party applications it can run at the moment. It also ships without some BlackBerry features like native email, calendar or contact apps.

RIM plans to release software updates sometime soon to solve many of these issues. That could make the tablet more useful. Meanwhile, it looks like RIM has no plans to go the HP way. The company, as of now, has no plans to discontinue the tablet. It has no plans to drop the prices any further either.