PlayBook Tablet will not be updated to BlackBerry 10

[Addis]

BlackBerry has finally decided to throw in the news completely on the tablet market and wants to forget the sales of its PlayBook.

In May 2012, the BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins announced that all of its PlayBook tablets, supplied with its new PlayBook OS would be updated to BlackBerry 10, pushing more work for the new generation smartphones. The company is now reversing this news.

In late April, during an interview collected by Bloomberg magazine, Mr. Heins said: "In five years there will be more reasons to own a tablet." He added that the market is actually centered around the smartphone. By publishing its quarterly results, the company confirmed that it would not deploy updates to BlackBerry 10 on the Playbook.

During a conference call following the publication of its quarterly results, Mr. Heins said that his teams have conducted several tests without obtaining satisfactory performance. Yet BlackBerry PlayBook OS and have the same core, QNX. Interviewed in September 2012, Dan Dodge, co-creator of the kernel stated that: "You can take any QNX and put it on the PlayBook application, it will work, it just does not have the user interface of PlayBook OS." Things, however, seem more complexd and it seems that the dual-core TI OMAP processor clocked at 1GHz PlayBook does not offer satisfactory results.

As reported by the site dedicated to CrackBerry, management wishes to focus its efforts on its core market: the smartphone. However it still will support current models of PlayBook.

[jackalz]

This is completely ridiculous from the company to share news after 2 years of waiting that the blackberry playbook wont get BB10 OS support. This abandonment of BB10 on PlayBook will definitely disappoint the nwners of the tablet. However, note that Heins has not said if a new tablet was currently in the pipeline or whatever.