{"id":647607,"date":"2013-03-19T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=386180"},"modified":"2013-03-19T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:40:06","slug":"blackberry-executive-contradicts-ceo-heins-says-playbook-sequel-already-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647607","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry executive contradicts CEO Heins, says Playbook sequel already in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/19\/blackberry-playbook-sequel-386180\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/playbook-zoom-34.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=367&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"BlackBerry Playbook Sequel\" title=\"BlackBerry Playbook\" \/><\/a><\/center>A day after <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>) CEO Thorsten Heins said that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/18\/blackberry-ceo-heins-interview-tablets-383075\/\">the company wasn&#8217;t going to produce another tablet<\/a>\u00a0until it had figured out how to make it more than &#8220;just another tablet,&#8221;\u00a0a senior executive said that a sequel to BlackBerry&#8217;s Playbook tablet is already in the works. Mike Al Mefleh, a\u00a0BlackBerry director of product management,\u00a0claimed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emirates247.com\/business\/technology\/blackberry-s-new-tablet-soon-2013-03-16-1.498750\">in an interview with <em>Emirates 24|7<\/em><\/a> at the Dubai BlackBerry User&#8217;s Forum that the company will release six new BlackBerry devices in 2013, in addition to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry-playbook\/\">Playbook<\/a>. The executive didn&#8217;t reveal a release timeframe, however sources speaking to <em>Emirates 24|7<\/em> suggest the device, which may sport a 10-inch display, could launch by the end of the second quarter. BlackBerry is also expected to update the original Playbook to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry-10\">BlackBerry 10<\/a> operating system later this year.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/KD2JSTvhK2M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after BlackBerry (BBRY) CEO Thorsten Heins said that the company wasn&#8217;t going to produce another tablet\u00a0until it had figured out how to make it more than &#8220;just another tablet,&#8221;\u00a0a senior executive said that a sequel to BlackBerry&#8217;s Playbook tablet is already in the works. Mike Al Mefleh, a\u00a0BlackBerry director of product management,\u00a0claimed\u00a0in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}