Wow.

So... Playbook comes AFTER March 16th?

Very nice to see them going in the right direction here with hitting up a 'Business' retailer.

It says "Blackberry TabletS." Is there more than one?

Now we just need a Staples employee to come on here and tell us what else they know. I do hope its out earlier than the 16th

Still no word on the $1000 price tag? Hahahaha...

I bet its no less than $499.

Very well could be coming out earlier. On 3/2, its says "Motorola Tablets Training". That is 6 days after Best Buy releases the Xoom. Going by that logic (I know, completely and utterly useless), that means the Playbook will release on 3/10 and that is the day before my Birthday! What an amazing Birthday present that would be!

It's going to be expensive...

I hope that is not the real release date because that pushes me back from having it before end of March or even April. Come on RIM get the damn product out already, you are killing me here. Send it to Amazon first please. :)

I guess a Feb 10th (my birthday) release is out of the question!

Now that stuff like this is leaking out I hope they'll just give us the date. It seems strange to keep that secret if indeed they know it is coming out. I do hope Amazon gets it. I want to put my order in today!

My only thought on keeping it secret is that they have a launch event date. I do hope they will have some things that will wow people at the event, although I'm getting it regardless. :-)

I was totally gonna leak this to CB today... Looks like someone beat me to it. In terms of Staples info about the PB, it's almost non-existant to folks in the retail stores. If I find any interesting nuggets of info I'll pass them along though. I'm like 90% positive that Staples is looking at a mid-March launch for our tablets. Time will tell though.

Hasn't this thing come out yet? Honestly, they've been talking about it for so long, it's just about time for the PlayBook 2 to be announced.

This sounds about right. The free playbook offer for developing an app is set to expire before the tablet is released. That expiry date is March 15. So this coming March 16 would be the earliest possible release date.

So: 3/2 - Monster Cable Sales Training

Also known as: How to gauge the customer for all of their hard-earned money for a measily cable that is not worth the price you pay.....

Any word on pre-orders?

does this mean the playbook will be available via verizon wireless as well?

because the mobile phone department @ staples does not offer anything Sprint

only verizon, At&t, and t-mobile

either way. im excited because i have about $200 in staples rewards that i can use to purchase the playbook when it becomes available.

This is completely true, Staples will be carrying the PlayBook and the price point is to be under $500 just like before. Nothing new here, the date for the training is typical for RIM since they try to hide everything the employees that do these trainings don't know anything until a week before and usually they are not trained on the product until the then or the day of launch of the product. Unfortunately, RIM does a suck ass job at getting associates as well as their own "employees" ready for launch of products. There is a lot of hype out there for this product right now and they are going to blow the load if they do what they usually do, it's sad to say that but they need to start training people on a product before it comes out, not after. People don't want to learn more about what is out, they always want to know more about what is to be coming out.

I work at a Staples in Canada part time and we were informed at our staff meeting last week that we are indeed going to be carrying the PlayBook, as well as the Galaxy Tab.

Price is around 600 i think