RIM Employees Also Getting Slick Discount on BlackBerry PlayBooks
I have been hearing about these discounts for awhile but Mackie let me know about a thread on RedFlagDeals Canada that really highlights it. RIM has been offering their employees BlackBerry PlayBooks for $99 (16GB), $149 (32GB), $199 (64GB). There is a catch that they have to pay benefit tax on it which brings up…
Some Gameloft PlayBook Games Get Big Price Cuts
Over the weekend Gokulesh let us know that Gameloft slashed the price on a few of their BlackBerry PlayBook games. From what he heard these price cuts are permanent price reductions which is pretty sweet. This sadly does not include all of Gameloft’s PlayBook titles but it does include: UNO HD $1.99 (used to…
Best Buy Cancelling BlackBerry PlayBook Orders? No Longer in Stock?
We have been hearing from contacts at retail stores that the BlackBerry PlayBook is selling very well with its current $199 price point. Today is Cyber Monday and I am sure even more of these devices are going to be flying off shelves but there is an interesting development happening. Electronista noticed that Best Buy…
PlayBook Discounts Start Ending December 3rd – Solid BlackBerry Phone Deals
The swooping discounted $199 BlackBerry PlayBook deals look like they will be wrapping up in the next week or so. RIM rounded up some great BlackBerry deals for this holiday weekend and confirmed that Walmart, Staples, Office Depot, and Office Max will have the $199+ PlayBook deal going on until December 3rd. That means…
iTunes Sync Brings Your iTunes Music to your PlayBook Wirelessly
Daniel Bigham has been on a roll with PlayBook apps. His latest is iTunes sync which synchronizes your iTunes music collection to your PlayBook with the latest music you have purchased. RIM offers a way to do this with a wired Desktop Manager connection but now you can do it over Wi-Fi. Daniel created iTunes…
Dev Claims to Have Rooted the BlackBerry PlayBook with “DingleBerry” Jailbreak
It looks like the RIM BlackBerry Incident Response Team is not going to get much sleep this weekend. Lucas @N4BB noticed that long time hacker/dev Chris Wade has confirmed on his Twitter account that he has a confirmed that the BlackBerry PlayBook has been “rooted.” In case you don’t know “rooted” is slang for gaining…
PlayBook OS Updated to v1.0.8.4985
It has been a while since the PlayBook has seen an OS update aside from the 2.0 build RIM released for developers. This new update is around 95MB which brings fixes and enhancements no new features. The inside BlackBerry Blog posted a list of enhancements that this update brings The BlackBerry PlayBook OS v1.0.8.4985 contains…
Mystery Pond HD PlayBook Game from XIMAD
XIMAD has released their latest PlayBook game in the form of Mystery Pond HD. XIMAD let us know that the game has done very well on Android and WP7 so it should be a hit on the PlayBook. The idea is to help the wizard remove the bugs (DE-BUG) his mystery pond by matching. Its…