Price of BlackBerry PlayBook has dropped in the Netherlands to 200 euro

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The fall in the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the Netherlands also reached. Recently there are a few shops that the cheapest version of the tablet for 199,99 euro offer. RIM hopes that with the fall in the price of stocks.

At the time of writing, there are three different shops that the 16GB version of the PlayBook for 199,99 euro offer. In the United States is this tablet already since the end of november for $ 199.99 offered. For the 32GB variant, at the time of writing, only one Dutch webshop, a price uses of 249,99 euro. In the US, the standard price for this type of now 249,99 dollar.

The introductory price of the 16GB PlayBook was 500 euros and that of the 32GB variant was 600 euro. From the quarterly results from RIM, it appeared that the sale of PlayBooks collapsed after the introduction. In the past year gave the manufacturer to stuck to be stuck with large inventories. The manufacturer was therefore forced to almost half a billion dollars to write off. According to RIM, the poor sales by the competitive dynamics of the tablet market and the delay of PlayBook OS 2.0.

In the past three months knew RIM, after the fall in the price of the product, to 150,000 PlayBooks to sell. RIM hopes that the sale will attract by the price reduction. HP had its TouchPad tablet in the rapidly sold-out hit after a drastic price cut.