DigiTimes: Blackberry Playbook in production
Research In Motion (RIM) has begun production of the highly-anticipated Blackberry Playbook Tablet PC.
According to Digitimes, 150,000 to 200,000 units are being produced per month, with the first shipments being ready to send out as early as February.
The Blackberry Playbook is being manufactured by Quanta Computer Inc. in Taiwan, a strategic move by RIM, to prevent white box manufacturers in mainland China from creating knock-offs of the tablet computer, and to protect it’s security features.
Until now, the production progress of the Blackberry Playbook has been kept in a shroud of secrecy. RIM has not yet set a launch date, but market analysts have indicated that a March Playbook launch seems to be expected. RIM expects to ship 1 million Playbook tablets in Q1 of 2011.
March 20th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
[...] strategic move comes just as Blackberry is about to launch their Playbook Tablet PC – a device that many market analysts are saying could raise the bar for tablet PCs. RIM is [...]