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BlackBerry PlayBook gets holiday season price drop
Published Monday, Nov 21 2011, 19:38 GMT | By Mark Langshaw | 4 comments
The tablet device will retail at $199 (£127) at participating retailers for a limited time only, according to the manufacturer.
Best Buy, Wireless Giant, Staples, OfficeMax, Office Depot, Radio Shack and Wal-Mart are listed on the PlayBook website as stores involved in the promotion. RIM is yet to reveal a specific time frame for the offer, with rumours suggesting that it is a Black Friday deal.
The BlackBerry PlayBook launched at $499 (£318), but has since been given a price drop following lower sales than predicted. It is currently available for as low as $299 (£190).
Low PlayBook sales are one of several issues RIM has encountered over the last year. Last month, a global service outage hit BlackBerry users, depriving them of email, internet and messenger services for several days.
The BlackBerry PlayBook's OS 2.0 software update will be issued in February 2012.
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