Tuesday, May 17, 2011

BlackBerry PlayBook Will Be Available In The UK Beginning June 16th

The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet went on sale back in April here in the US and Canada, however it looks like the wait for those in the UK who may be interested in making a purchase is quickly coming to an end. As of this morning, RIM has officially announced the availability details for the UK market.

 Anyway, the PlayBook will arrive on sale in the UK on June 6th and the version that will be available is the Wi-Fi only model. Furthermore, while we are expecting 3G capable models to come available, the official details that we seen for the UK have made no mention thus far.
In terms of making the purchase, it looks like the availability will be fairly widespread with stores such as Phones 4u, Carphone Warehouse, Best Buy and Insight already offering confirmation. The price will be as many probably expected — £400, £480 and £560 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB model respectively.
Worth noting though, it seems that the in-store availability is going to differ from the online availability. In the case of Phones 4u, they have noted that the 16GB model will be available in store and the 64GB model will be available online only. Furthermore, Phones 4u made no mention of the 32GB model.
Otherwise, those itching to make a purchase can move forward with a pre-order at the Carphone Warehouse as well as Insight who both have all three sized models listed and available. And lastly, for those in need of a refresher, the PlayBook comes touting features to include a 7 inch (1024 x 600) multitouch capacitive display, dual-core 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 3 megapixel front facing camera, 5 megapixel rear facing camera, microUSB, microHDMI, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and a weight of 0.9 pounds.

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