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Credit: Reuters/Gustau Nacarino By Alastair Sharp and Liana Baker TORONTO/NEW YORK | Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:24am EDT TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - RIM's PlayBook tablet bombed with influential technology reviewers who called the iPad competitor a rushed job that won't even provide RIM's vaunted email service unless it's hooked up to a BlackBerry. The poor initial response to a device the company hopes will get it onboard the tablet computing explosion overshadowed a splashy coming-out party in New York Thursday evening, where co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis drummed up the gadget's attractiveness with corporate users. There was little mention of the stinging reviews only hours before. "RIM has just shipped a BlackBerry product that cannot do email. It must be skating season in hell," New York Times' David Pogue wrote in a review published on Thursday. Research In Motion built its reputation on a BlackBerry email service that it says is so secure that it can't bow to government requests to tap messages, winning high-profile customers in business, defense and politics before branching out to a wider consumer market. But the PlayBook, which hits North American store shelves on Tuesday, offers that secure service only in tandem with a BlackBerry. RIM says secure email and other key services will come later, not at launch. "I got the strong impression RIM is scrambling to get the product to market," Walt Mossberg, the widely followed business and consumer technology critic, wrote in a Wall Street Journal article headlined "PlayBook: a tablet with a case of codependency." The pessimism of the reviews seemed to hit RIM's often volatile shares, which fell 1.7 percent to $53.92 on the Nasdaq on Thursday, the lowest closing price since Oct 25. It fell a further 1.1 percent in after-hours trading. RIM's 7-inch WiFi-only device is priced identically to Apple's 10-inch market leader and faces tough me-too competition from a slew of devices running Google's Android software. It is a first step in a major product overhaul intended to reinvigorate RIM's fortunes. But the lukewarm initial reception, coupled with an outburst from Lazaridis that went viral on Youtube, cast a shadow over the coming-out party. IMPRESSED? Most reviewers have been impressed by the PlayBook's well-documented capability to handle Flash websites and its ability to show one high-definition image -- a movie, for instance -- on a connected TV, while doing something else on its own screen. Those are two things the iPad cannot do. But reviewers paid more attention to what the PlayBook can't do. The PlayBook needs a smartphone to access a cellular network and a BlackBerry to tap into RIM's popular BlackBerry Messenger chat platform or get secure emails. The PlayBook's secure Bluetooth link with the BlackBerry mirrors a user's existing BlackBerry applications, negating corporate worries about leaking confidential information. 1 2 Next Technology Media iPad Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (2) Shukla wrote: no comments!? hmmm, guess nobody cares for RIM anymore! Apr 14, 2011 11:05pm EDT -- Report as abuse FreqHandy wrote: Never did, never will. The so-called security that they boast is nothing more than using a different coding structure. Similar to MacOS being “impervious to virii”. It’s not impervious, you just have to learn how to get at it. Nothing is secure, but who wants to spend time cracking devices that are unbelievably limited in capabilities? I would suggest looking at what the competition does a little closer before releasing a device that doesn’t compete in almost any of the noteable areas. I don’t just mean the iPad either in this case. Android based tablets (which provide very strong encryption capabilities) work flawlessly with any mail client, but if you should choose an email server like google’s gmail, you’d find they have released 10 instances of information to US government related to criminal investigation ever. Out of millions of users. If RIM did not, they could face severe charges, related to aiding and abetting a crime, that would likely shut them down. They just aren’t reporting it. Android supports flash and HD playback… Not to mention your choice of hardware that’s not dependant on you having another device to use it’s basic functions. BBM? I guess the only phone that doesn’t support skype development would need something with a pin number to find it’s users. As counter-intuitive as the little glowing ball that breaks ever so easily. How are they still in business? 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