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You probably saw this coming. Research In Motion is pulling theplug on production of the 16GB version of its PlayBook tablet. The32GB and 64GB models will remain on the market. There may not be many of you in the thinking-about-buying-a-16GB-PlayBook category, but if you are, you d better hurry Research InMotion has announced it is to stop making the tablet. Existing stock will remain on store shelves but once they ve beensold, that ll be it for the device. The Canadian mobile company is, however, keen to make it clear thatit isn t abandoning the tablet market altogether, saying in astatement on Thursday: We continue to remain committed to the tablet space and the 32GBand 64GB models of the BlackBerry PlayBook continue to be available from our distributors and retailersaround the world. Sadly for RIM, the PlayBook has been nothing short of a disastersince hitting the market. Launched to great fanfare in April 2011,eyebrows across the tech world arched in unison as reviewers took acloser look at the device. For a start, it was overpriced the 16GB model hit the storeswith a whopping $499 price tag, while the 32GB model retailed for$599 and the 64GB $699. These prices put it on par with the iPad 2,a device which by that time had already established itself in themarket, selling in huge numbers. Also, the PlayBook was shipped without native email and calendarapps an issue that took almost a year to sort out. An app storethat paled in comparison to the iOS store and Android equivalentalso did little to help its cause. From late last year, RIM began discounting all versions of its beleaguered tablet in a bid to actually sellsome of them. But the consequences were severe, with the companyposting a $485-million pre-tax write-off due to unsold and discounted devices. So why has RIM chosen to dump the $199 16GB model? If it was makingany profit at all on the device, it can t have been very much. Thearrival of Amazon s Kindle Fire tablet, with the same screen sizeand identical price tag ($199), didn t help its cause much either.Instead it has chosen to focus on the other two models. If you re interested in picking up one of the last 16GB PlayBooks,Best Buy still has a few going, priced at $199. The 32GB and 64GB models will continue tosell for the time being at least for $249 and $299,respectively. [via AllThingsD ]. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Outdoor Sports Watch Manufacturer , Digital Diving Camera for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Digital Altimeter Compass.
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