The other day a quote from Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. sent RIM’s unreleased and anticipated PlayBook tablet rumours in high gear. Wu basically said the battery life of the PlayBook is poor and RIM pushed back the launch until May. The reason for the poor battery life was blamed on the QNX OS because it “wasn’t originally designed for mobile environments but rather for devices like network equipment and automobiles where battery life isn’t as much a constraint.”
Waterloo-based RIM has come to the table to set things straight. In a statement RIM says “Any testing or observation of battery life to date by anyone outside of RIM would have been performed using pre-beta units that were built without power management implemented. RIM is on track with its schedule to optimize the BlackBerry PlayBook’s battery life and looks forward to providing customers with a professional grade tablet that offers superior performance with comparable battery life.”
Source: Yahoo!
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