Of our two review units, we finally determined that one, on which the button became jammed, was actually defective. But the button is still tough to use on our non-defective PlayBook. It's not ...

Early reviews of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet are trickling in, with a generally positive reception of the hardware and dings against the lack of not only commonly built-in apps—there’s no native ...

RIM's updated tablet OS allows direct email and calendar access, but both tablet and OS fall behind iOS and Android devices I want to love the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and its new Version 2.0 ...

Tech critics are saying plenty of nice things about Research in Motion’s Blackberry Playbook, but nearly all the reviews end the same way: Don’t buy it. The conclusion was predictable. Out of the box, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - You need three things to compete with Apple's iPad tablet computer: A gorgeous, easy-to-use device people will love, a bustling app store and an attractive price tag. Nobody has been ...

Initial reviews deeming the device “half-baked” meant a bad start for the BlackBerry PlayBook, and things just got a little worse as RIM recalls nearly 1,000 units. Over 900 units have shipped with an ...

TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - RIM's PlayBook tablet bombed with influential technology reviewers who called the iPad competitor a rushed job that won't even provide RIM's vaunted email service unless ...

Promising that “we will have an over the air email client to announce very very soon,” RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie also spoke of the reaction to the PlayBook tablet in the first wave of reviews.

Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of standardized benchmarks available for the PlayBook at this time. We found and ran one app known as Mandelbrot, which can be used to benchmark the processor speed ...

The tablet market is booming, with new product introductions occurring on a regular basis. Although there are still more tablets announced than are actually shipping right now, quite a few new models ...