Yesterday, I reported that a rumor was circulating around the Interwebs that the Blackberry Playbook might be delayed due to battery life issues. For a change, RIM decided to take the bull by the horns and shot down that rumor:
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.
And there you have it. The Playbook is on schedule with decent battery life. Do you believe them? I don’t. Until they put out some units for the media to test, I doubt anyone will fully believe them. So how about it RIM? Want to prove me wrong?
Since RIM has appeared to grow a pair, they also took the time to clarify another rumor. Remember the India vs RIM circus? Last I heard, they had a deal. According to RIM, that deal doesn’t include corporate data:
The Economic Times quoted the Indian government note as saying that: “In the final solution proposed by RIM, the decoding will be automatic. Intercepted and decoded data will not travel out of India. RIM has proposed to install [network data analysis systems] in India. In the final solution, intercepted and decoded data will travel between service providers and RIM India.”
RIM, however, called the claim “both false and technologically unfeasible. There will be no change to the security model of BlackBerry Enterprise Service,” the statement said.
Clearly, this statement was meant to keep business customers from running to their local telco to buy iPhones en-masse. But there’s a secondary effect that this statement generates. This statement confirms that all the terrorists need to do is use a Blackberry Enterprise server to evade the snooping of the Indian government, just as I said in this posting. Great going India. You’ve made it easier than ever for the bad guys to drop under the radar.
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RIM Says Playbook Battery Issues Are Bogus…. And So Are Rumors Of A Deal With India
Yesterday, I reported that a rumor was circulating around the Interwebs that the Blackberry Playbook might be delayed due to battery life issues. For a change, RIM decided to take the bull by the horns and shot down that rumor:
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.
And there you have it. The Playbook is on schedule with decent battery life. Do you believe them? I don’t. Until they put out some units for the media to test, I doubt anyone will fully believe them. So how about it RIM? Want to prove me wrong?
Since RIM has appeared to grow a pair, they also took the time to clarify another rumor. Remember the India vs RIM circus? Last I heard, they had a deal. According to RIM, that deal doesn’t include corporate data:
The Economic Times quoted the Indian government note as saying that: “In the final solution proposed by RIM, the decoding will be automatic. Intercepted and decoded data will not travel out of India. RIM has proposed to install [network data analysis systems] in India. In the final solution, intercepted and decoded data will travel between service providers and RIM India.”
RIM, however, called the claim “both false and technologically unfeasible. There will be no change to the security model of BlackBerry Enterprise Service,” the statement said.
Clearly, this statement was meant to keep business customers from running to their local telco to buy iPhones en-masse. But there’s a secondary effect that this statement generates. This statement confirms that all the terrorists need to do is use a Blackberry Enterprise server to evade the snooping of the Indian government, just as I said in this posting. Great going India. You’ve made it easier than ever for the bad guys to drop under the radar.
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