RIM rejects claims of weak PlayBook battery

RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook

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Research In Motion)

RIM has rebutted past claims that its upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook paper is hampered by a brief shelling life.

On Tuesday, playwright Bros. shrink clarinettist Wu issued a inform in which he cited unnamed sources locution that the PlayBook’s shelling lasts exclusive a some hours, compared with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, which lasts for sextet hours, and
Apple’s iPad, which runs for 10 hours on azygos charge. The shrink spinous to the anaemic shelling chronicle as a think ground Research In Motion has suspended the start of the figure until the company’s May 2011 quarter.

But in a salutation issued today, RIM unloved those claims, according to Reuters, and insisted that the utilization of the shelling was on schedule and that its chronicle would be same to that of the competing tablets. The BlackBerry concern also offered an account of ground right testers haw hit acknowledged the shelling would be weak.

“Any investigating or attending of shelling chronicle to fellow by anyone right of RIM would hit been performed using pre-beta units that were shapely without noesis direction implemented,” the consort said in a evidence e-mailed to Reuters.

Even with same shelling life, the PlayBook faces an hard effort competing against the likes of the iPad. An shrink from Oppenheimer expects RIM to delude exclusive around 3.3 meg units over the instruction of the assemblage after it launches. In contrast, Apple oversubscribed 3 meg iPads meet in the prototypal threesome months.

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BlackBerry PlayBook, prototypal impressions