BlackBerry has a long way to go to be competitive in the smartphone
world, and new CEO John Chen has said that the company will focus more
on server enterprise software in order to regain its footing. But, that
doesn't mean the company isn't also looking into other hardware form
factors. BlackBerry is apparently open to making a follow-up to the
ill-received PlayBook tablet.
Pocket-lint spoke with
BlackBerry's vice-president of global product management, Francois
Mahieu, at MWC this week, and Mahieu did admit that the company would
consider making another tablet. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though
there are any immediate plans to do so anytime soon. Mahieu said about
the tablet:
When
we launched PlayBook, beyond the fact that everybody knows that
PlayBook was no a huge success, everybody loved it. I wouldn't be
surprised if we have a meeting one day and I show you a tablet. We have
equity in that space, but we're not ready. We need more time.
That is vague wording to contend with in that statement, but the
ultimate message is pretty simple: BlackBerry is definitely not going to
be showing off a tablet in the near future.
source: Pocket-lint
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