RIM delays PlayBook update; shipping without messenger

Research in Motion said the software upgrade for its PlayBook tablet has been delayed to February next year.It seems that the even with the software update though, the tablet will ship without the Blackberry messenger (BBM)software, the company said in a blog post on its website. Their reasoning behind the delay, according to the blog was this - As much as we’d love to have it in your hands today, we’ve made the difficult decision to wait to launch BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 until we are confident we have fully met the expectations of our developers, enterprise customers and end-users. And here’s what we’re doing to accomplish that.

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