Despite being something of a soft launch considering the amount of features it's not shipping with - notably native BlackBerry email, Android and Java players, and games other than the two EA embeds Tetris and Need for Speed - RIM's PlayBook seems to be off to a reasonable start.
That's the conclusion of RBC Capital Markets. It reckons 11 percent of retailers sold out of stock.
Empty shelves
Analyst Peter Misek of Jeffries & Co agrees, although he places North American day 1 sales at 45,000 units; of which 25,000 had been pre-ordered.
Of course, this doesn't match to iPad's 300,000 first day total, but compared to the estimated 100,000 Motorola Xooms sold over two months, it's positively impressive.
PlayBooks start at $499 for the entry level 16 GB model.
[source: Economic Times of India]
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