BlackBerry PlayBook Goes on Sale for Weekend

Foremost Buy is offering discounts of $50 to $150 on all models of the 7-in BlackBerry PlayBook through Monday.

You derriere get the 16GB mock up for $450 ($50 turned), while both the 32GB and 64GB models are priced at $550 for savings of $50 and $150 respectively. It's not clear wherefore Best Buy is bleak the price of the PlayBook. Perhaps the big box retail merchant is hoping to touch of a PlayBook craze in light-armed of the successful Horsepower TouchPad give notice sale from Venerable (a second TouchPad fervour sale is anticipated in the approach weeks).

If C. H. Best Buy's PlayBook sales agreement prices don't appeal to you, rumor has IT Staples may be planning a 50 percent price abbreviate for the BlackBerry tablet to run September 7 and 8, reported to CrackBerry. Staples is presently offering a $100 ring mail-in rebate on the 32GB and 64GB PlayBooks.

BlackBerry watchers are trying to puzzle out why Prizewinning Buy is oblation its PlayBook sale, or why Staples might put up a 50 percent discount. Also up for debate is whether else retailers may take after suit with PlayBook sales of their own. It may simply be a round down of seasonal promotions, operating room Lip's retail partners may be looking to sell through PlayBook carry to make room for Playbooks pie-eyed with an expected OS refresh. A BlackBerry Tablet Oculus sinister update will reportedly land sometime in Sep with native apps for BlackBerry Messenger and e-mail, among some other enhancements. RIM aforesaid in June that it had shipped 500,000 PlayBooks to retailers, but did not say how many had been sold through to consumers.

The PlayBook features a 7-inch screen with 1024-aside-600 resolution, 1 GHz three-fold-center processor, 1 GB Random access memory, 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, 5 megapixel set up-facing camera, 3-megapixel front-cladding tv camera, and HDMI micro and microUSB ports; and it weighs less than one pound.

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