[kshcho]

at first, i also thought it was stupid that they required you to tether it to a blackberry. then i realized that i kind of like that fact that you don't need to buy two $80 / month data plans (though tethering a blackberry by bluetooth kills the battery) for each.

too bad the playbook was too little, too late, and too expensive. hope they take a cue from HP and drop the price massively to clear their inventory

[lreeves]

That logic doesn't really hold water - every other tablet on the market has Wifi access and can do native calendaring and e-mail. And with the Wifi it can almost always be tethered to a phone as well. So for most users, they don't need two 3G data plans at all.

Additionally tablet only 3G data plans start at 20$ in Canada, and even the largest plans don't come near 80$.